A5038049040- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Gender, Education, and Development Issues
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Community Health and Development
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Environmental Sustainability and Technology
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
University of Pretoria
2023-2024
University of the Witwatersrand
2008-2024
Rhodes University
2019-2020
Sustainability Institute
2015
Sitas, N., Z. V. Harmáčková, J. A. Anticamara, Arneth, R. Badola, Biggs, Blanchard, L. Brotons, M. Cantele, K. Coetzer, DasGupta, E. Den Belder, S. Ghosh, Guisan, H. Gundimeda, Hamann, P. Harrison, Hashimoto, Hauck, B. Klatt, Kok, Krug, Niamir, O'Farrell, Okayasu, I. Palomo, Pereira, Riordan, F. Santos-Martín, O. Selomane, Y. Shin, and Valle Tobar. 2019. Exploring the usefulness of scenario archetypes in science-policy processes: experience across IPBES assessments. Ecology Society 24(3):35....
Abstract Generating actionable knowledge to meet current sustainability challenges requires unprecedented collaboration across scales, geographies, cultures and knowledges. Intergovernmental programmes place‐based knowledge–action networks have much potential mobilize transformation. Although many research fields benefited from comparative sites, the of site‐based for generating at people–nature interface has yet be fully explored. This article presents World Network biosphere reserves...
Abstract. Radical and quick transformations towards sustainability will be fundamental to achieving a more sustainable future. However, deliberate interventions reconfigure systems result in winners losers, with the potential for greater or lesser equity justice outcomes. Positive tipping points (PTPs) have been proposed as complex aim (a) reduce likelihood of negative Earth system and/or (b) increase just social foundations. many narratives around PTPs often do not take into account entire...
UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is implemented through a world network of biosphere reserves, which offer holistic people-centered landscape-level conservation approach. When successfully program enhances social–ecological system sustainability resilience. However, there remains research gap in understanding collating lessons from individual sites for benefit globally. We assess MAB implementation South Africa’s oldest reserve, Kogelberg Reserve (KBR; est. 1998). Using...
This paper is a first step towards conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on South African Central Lowveld, quantifying historical land-cover trends (1993 - 2006). During analysis period, 36% of biosphere reserve (BR) underwent change. Settlement areas increased by 39.7%, mainly in rural areas, becoming denser, particularly along roadways. Human-Impacted Vegetation 6.8% and Intact declined 7.3%, predominantly around settlement which testament interdependency...
Understanding the interactions of social and biophysical drivers land degradation is crucial for developing adaptive management actions future sustainability. A research-praxis project, ‘Tsitsa Project’ (TP), applies a social-ecological systems (SES) approach where researchers, natural resource managers, residents collaborate to support sustainable livelihoods improved degraded Tsitsa River Catchment (TRC) in South Africa. system diagramming was coupled with findings from interviews,...
SUMMARY As multi-use conservation landscapes, biosphere reserves (BRs) exemplify the landscape mosaic approach to environmental decision-making. In this study, time-series remotely-sensed data (1993–2006–2012) were used monitor vegetation transformation in Kruger Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) of South Africa, updating previous land-cover research. We identified changes spatial extent, rate and intensity change extrapolated observed trends 2018. The increased recent observation period (2.3...
Climate change is acknowledged as one of the greatest environmental and development challenges society faces. Many organisations are now encouraged to conduct assessments climate risks they will be exposed over next decades. The Global Change Institute (University Witwatersrand, South Africa) conducted such an assessment for southern Africa region, identify some main clusters climate-change related risks. A list fifty was scored ranked using a modified-Delphi process; iterative process...
The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) will likely experience more frequent heat waves by 2100, the health impacts which are being prioritized for strategic focus. We identified challenges and opportunities better operationalizing wave considerations within Environmental Health Department Johannesburg. By obtaining a deeper appreciation 'issues concern' existing 'contradictions', that is context in these practitioners located, barriers to engagement, helps surface issues may confront when planning...
Climate change is one of the multiple stressors facing African cities; these cities are responding by developing climate action plans including adaptation and mitigation policies. Effectively mainstreaming in city operations moving from ambition to implementation complex. Multi-actor engagement, transdisciplinary knowledge interactions, co-designing sustained co-learning often required such planning contexts. In this paper, we trace reflect on process an for City Johannesburg, South Africa....
Integration and monitoring are pressing conceptual methodological challenges in social-ecological systems (SES) research. This paper follows a social learning process, called participatory self-observation, piloted by group of action-researchers to improve SES integration monitoring, using the Tsitsa River Catchment South Africa as case study. The self-observation process reflected on lessons enhance integrated biophysical, social, data projects; for adaptive planning management. Three focal...
The Global Politics of Science & Technology – Volumes 1 2 by Maximilian Mayer, Mariana Carpes, Ruth Knoblich (eds) Heidelberg: Springer, 584 pp., Two volume set, 199.99 €; Hard–cover - Volume 6 Issue 3