by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog
Institute for Development Studies has released a useful paper on accelerating sustainability transitions from a political economy perspective. Very useful overview of recent approach to sustainability. AcceleratingSustainabilityWhyPoliticalEconomyMatters
by Mark Swilling | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog
Stengers SubjectivityWhat a pleasure to spend a day with a great intellectual-of-the-world – Stengers has seen it all, heard it all, and ends up incredibly humble, brutally honest and astoundingly unafraid during times when fear ensures the survival of so much...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog
Yesterday I delivered a talk at a workshop of the Development Finance Institutions from Southern Africa, convened by the Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. I used the opportunity to reflect on and integrate two recent pieces of research...
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...
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