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The team cannot wait to meet all our prospective students in February 2022, and we are ready to be engaged in teaching and learning at multiple levels, to effect meaningful change in the world. Watch the video to hear more from Programme Leader, Megan Davies, and Student Support Representative, Nina Callaghan, both on the teaching and learning team of the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Development at the Centre for Sustainability Transitions at Stellenbosch University.

How much biodiversity can we lose before it starts impacting our quality of life? We all depend on well-functioning ecosystems, whether we are aware of this or not. Yet measuring how much biodiversity we are losing across the African continent, and what that means for our well-being, is a difficult task.

SARA invites proposals for collaborative working groups to pursue inter- or transdisciplinary research that synthesizes understanding under the guiding theme of “Building equitable resilience in southern Africa”.

Congratulations to Prof Oonsie Biggs who has again been listed on the annual Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list. The list has recognised true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™.

As compounding impacts from our worsening climate crisis become more visible around the globe, leading scientists, including the CST's Tanya Brodie Rudolph, have released a compilation of the 10 most important new insights on the climate.

The Okavango watershed is a natural beating heart that has nourished humans and wildlife in Southern Africa for generations — and it’s at risk. Read an opinion piece by CST student Reinhold Mangundu and Prince Harry.

The CST, in partnership with the USAID Resilient Waters Program, is excited to announce a free online training on “Anticipatory Governance: New ways of sense-making an navigating for uncertainty.”

The latest edition of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) multi-award winning publication Research at Stellenbosch University is now available. Produced annually by the Division for Research Development (DRD), Research at Stellenbosch University is regarded as one of SU’s flagship publications.

The article entitled Assessing the outcomes of implementing natural open space plans in a Global South city was published in Landscape and Urban Planning and allows local government to understand, and respond to, the opportunities and challenges affecting the outcomes of implementing natural open space plans.