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CST Co-director elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of South Africa
The Royal Society of South Africa is the Republic’s premier multi-disciplinary scientific organization. For a century, the Society has consistently played the leading role in being the public face of South African science.
As SA teeters on the brink of full-blown energy disaster, it’s vital the right decisions are made – now
Ours is a highly complex energy system that has been pushed to extremes. If it starts to collapse, it will be much harder to steer the energy transition in the right direction. We missed three crucial decision points — in 1999, 2015-17 and 2019. Let’s learn from these.
Call for abstracts: 5th National Global Change Conference 2023
The University of the Free State (UFS), in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), invites abstract submissions for the GCC5, which [...]
CST researchers honoured at Research Excellence Awards
Congratulations to CST Co-Director Prof Mark Swilling and research fellow Dr. Julia van Velden who were honoured for their outstanding contributions at Stellenbosch University (SU)'s Research Excellen [...]
Ramaphosa’s electricity plans ‘significant’, says energy transition expert Mark Swilling
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new plan to address South Africa’s electricity crisis has been widely panned in the media as being ‘too little too late’ or lacking details or timeframes, but Mark Swilling, co-director of the Centre for Sustainability Transitions at Stellenbosch University, disagrees.
INTERVIEW: We need to declare an energy emergency to have light at the end of the tunnel
Mark Swilling speaks to the eNCA news team in his capacity as part of the National Planning Commission about a way forward for electricity generation in South Africa.
Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems
New processes and governance arrangements are urgently needed for dealing with potential trade-offs among mitigation options and their food security implications.
When is transdisciplinarity an appropriate research methodology?
Transdisciplinarity distinguishes itself from mono-, multi- and inter-disciplinarity in that it – as research methodology – has developed specific principles, practices and methods of co-producing knowledge with social partners when facing real-world problem situations that are too complex to tackle with theoretical knowledge alone.
SES methods “hackathon”: Creative collaboration for open-access resources
The Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST), in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and Rhodes University, recently hosted a “hackathon” for an exciting new SES Methods website. This new website, expected to be launched mid-2022, is envisioned as a research commons with researchers all over the world working together to create useful resources related to Social-Ecological Systems (SES) methods.
