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Video Recordings Available: Encounters with Complexity Colloquium Event
If you missed our CST Colloquium event: "Encounters with Complexity" that featured Dr Jean Boulton, Prof Brian Arthur, Prof Jannie Hofmeyr and Prof Mark Swilling, please feel free to watch the video recordings of the keynote speakers we have made available.
New report: T-labs for alternative food systems in the Western Cape
Over the past three years, the Southern Africa Food Lab, in partnership with the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, GRAID and the NRF, has made use of Transformation Labs [...]
CST researchers honoured by Ecological Society of America
Researchers from the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition were among the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) 2019 award recipients announced on Monday (April 15, 2019).
SAPECS Winter School in Social-ecological Systems
The Southern African Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS) invites Masters’ and PhD students doing research at the interface of ecosystems and society to attend an introductory course on social-ecological systems, to be hosted by the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) at Stellenbosch University.
Learning for change
“There came a point where I realised that the industry I was in – advertising – was literally making the world a worse place,” says Dr Luke Metelerkamp, explaining his transition from commercial photography to food systems research
Caring for the grasslands
“I always admired Mother Theresa’s compassion and commitment to helping people,” says PhD graduate Linda Luvuno. “I dreamed of becoming a nurse so that I could do just that.”
Caring for the grasslands
“I always admired Mother Theresa’s compassion and commitment to helping people,” says PhD graduate Linda Luvuno. “I dreamed of becoming a nurse so that I could do just that.” Growing [...]
Call for abstracts: 3rd Garden Route Interface Meeting (GRIM)
3rd Garden Route Interface Meeting (GRIM) Science and management co-learning to navigate social-ecological issues 17-19 September 2019 Pine Lake Marina, Sedgefield, South Africa Background: The Garden Route Interface Meeting (GRIM) [...]
Exploring the social dimensions of electricity supply in South Africa
An essential service, such as electricity, is resilient if the complex adaptive socio-technical system, from which it is produced, has the capacity to sustain delivery of the core service amidst disruption and ongoing change.
