by Mark Swilling | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog
Over the weekend I read through the publications of an academic who is up for promotion at the University of Ghana. Although as a reviewer I had to pay attention to the usual details that matter to academics (methods, theory, etc), reading his incredibly detailed...
by Mark Swilling | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
Posted on FB on 13 September 2015: Sustainable Urbanization – a global South perspective. An amazing five days has just come to an end here in Durban. Wednesdeay through to Saturday was spent facilitating a session on Sustainable Urbanization focussed on the...
by Mark Swilling | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
Stellenbosch University has asked systems biologist Prof Jannie Hofmeyr and myself to be the Co-Directors of a new Stellenbosch University ‘flagship’ initiative called the Stellenbosch Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST). This will bring...
by Mark Swilling | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
I wrote this reflection while facilitation a workshop on sustainable urbanization in Durban last week: Durban – origin of so many South African movements: John Dube, Inanda, 1920s – early years of the ANC; Albert Luthuli, ANC in the 1950s (won Nobel Prize...
by Mark Swilling | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog
I was invited to make a presentation today in the South African parliament at the public hearings on South Africa’s response to climate change and its so-called “intended nationally determined contribution” for submission at the COP 21 meetings in...
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