Odirilwe Selomane
A5053829173- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Rural development and sustainability
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
Stellenbosch University
2015-2024
University of Pretoria
2019-2024
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
2023
Stockholm Resilience Centre
2017-2021
Stockholm University
2017-2021
Birds Canada
2021
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
2015-2019
Utrecht University
2019
Yale University
2019
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
2019
Urban green infrastructure provides ecosystem services that are essential to human wellbeing. A dearth of national-scale assessments in the Global South has precluded ability explore how political regimes, such as forced racial segregation Africa during and after Apartheid, have influenced extent access over time. We investigate whether there disparities distributions across race income geographies urban Africa. Using open-source satellite imagery geographic information, along with national...
Abstract Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals global environmental targets. Until recently, there was no broadly accepted framework of interventions that could ignite the transformations needed achieve these desired targets goals. As component IPBES Global Assessment, we conducted an iterative expert deliberation process with extensive review scenarios pathways...
The imperative to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has resulted in a proliferation of targets and indicators fed by an ever-expanding set observations. This undermines one principal purpose the SDGs: provide framework for coordinated action across policy domains. Systems approaches defining Essential Variables have focused monitoring climate, biodiversity oceans offer opportunities coordinate SDG monitoring. We propose four criteria process identify (ESDGVs),...
The United Nations 2030 Agenda catalysed the development of global target-seeking sustainability-oriented scenarios representing alternative pathways to reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Implementing SDGs requires connected actions across local, national, regional, and levels; thus, need reflect options tensions those scales. We argue that design a consistent process for capturing multiple contrasting perspectives on how goals, including from scales (e.g. regional) geographic...
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods needed respond needs decision-makers for more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation different policies, geared action from global local. While scenarios an important tool GEAs link short-term decisions medium long-term consequences, these current information cannot be met only...
Abstract Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making address many sustainability challenges. Such play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, GEAs mostly developed at the level by experts researchers, locally imagined, bottom-up do not such assessments. In this paper, we argue that addressing future challenges for achieving more equitable requires explicit inspired futures. To end,...
Abstract Non-technical summary We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability implications overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for rapid managed fossil fuel phase-out, (3) challenges scaling carbon dioxide removal, (4) uncertainties regarding future contribution sinks, (5) intertwinedness crises biodiversity loss change, (6) compound events, (7) mountain...
Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is under-represented in global biodiversity datasets, particularly regarding the impact of land use on species’ population abundances. Drawing recent advances expert elicitation to ensure data consistency, 200 experts were convened using a modified-Delphi process estimate ‘intactness scores’: remaining proportion an ‘intact’ reference species group particular use, scale from 0 (no individuals) 1 (same abundance as reference) and, rare cases, 2 (populations that...
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....
The unpredictable Anthropocene poses the challenge of imagining a radically different, equitable and sustainable world. Looking 100 years ahead is not easy, especially as millennials, it appears quite bleak. This paper outcome visioning exercise carried out in 2-day workshop, attended by 33 young early career professionals under auspices IPBES. process used Nature Futures Framework an adapted method from Seeds Good project. Four groups envisioned more desirable future worlds; where humanity...
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are described as integrated and indivisible, where sustainability challenges must be addressed across sectors scales to achieve global-level sustainability. However, SDG monitoring mostly focuses on tracking progress at national-levels, for each goal individually. This approach ignores local cross-border impacts of national policies assumes that is the sum national, sector-specific gains. In this study, we investigate effects...
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...
Abstract Agriculture and food systems are in urgent need of transformation. Various foresight reports unpack systems’ challenges propose diverse pathways change towards sustainability. We interrogate the framings proposed eleven selected from a system perspective, with focus on environmental climate implications. synthesize key drivers their impact outcomes. distil trends strategies identified across scenarios discuss diversity ‘sustainability pathways’ ‘solution spaces’. There is general...
Abstract There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward nutritional security, climate stability, environmental integrity. How can satisfy demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, Energy—Consortium reconcile both elements developing system pathways. This includes three key...
The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 marks significant progress towards sustainable development by making explicit the intention to integrate previously separate social, economic and environmental agendas. Despite this intention, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted implement agenda, are fragmented in their formulation largely sectoral. We contend that while design of SDG monitoring is based on a systems approach, it still misses most dynamics complexity relevant sustainability...
Non-technical summary We argue that the ways in which we as humans derive well-being from nature – for example by harvesting firewood, selling fish or enjoying natural beauty feed back into how behave towards environment. This feedback is mediated institutions (rules, regulations) and individual capacities to act. Understanding these relationships can guide better interventions sustainably improving alleviating poverty. However, more attention needs be paid experience-related benefits...
The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in 2011, is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research networks. During this time, SES has undergone a phase rapid growth grown into an influential branch sustainability science. In Perspective, we argue that also deepened over past decade, helped to shed light key dimensions dynamics (e.g. system feedbacks, aspects design, goals paradigms) can lead tangible action for solving challenges our...