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Hybrid science-society approaches for knowledge production are often framed by a transdisciplinary approach. Most forms of “linear” progression of science informing policy or the “production” of knowledge as a one-way process are increasingly being challenged. This is also true for coastal and marine sciences informing decision-making to support su...
This article proposes a conceptual framework for analysing and comparing urban governance configurations and their dynamics in the context of sustainability transitions. Our contribution to the debates consists of drawing on a literature review to develop a conceptual framework with the dimensions necessary for understanding urban governance proces...
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The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the author’s research experiences in northern Mozambique in order explore the multiplicity of gatekeeper relations that arose while seeking to arrange access to both “the field” and respondents, as well as the impacts that these relationships had on the research process. Although this dynamic has...
Although historical developments have differently shaped urban growth trajectories of Indian and South African cities, informal settlements continue to present urgent concerns for city governments in both countries. This research explores urban governance and political bargaining of households residing in informal settlements of Chennai, India and...
Citizens of authoritarian, single-party, or post-socialist states rarely demonstrate excessive trust in government. A 2013 study by Mattes and Shenga, however, suggests that Mozambique is different, with a citizenry that appears remarkably deferential and trusting of the state, without displaying the criticism or cynicism which Mozambique’s history...
This paper examines explores the multiplicity of gatekeepers encountered during fieldwork in Northern Mozambique. It interrogates the researchers' experiences negotiating access to the field, local communities, and interview respondents with representatives of the national state as well as traditional authorities. This discussion provides a more dy...
The world is confronting a range of ‘wicked problems’ that defy simple, linear solutions. Increasingly, the range of challenges including poverty, climate change and environmental degradation require solutions that cannot be drawn from a single knowledge base. Although excellent environmental legislation exists in South Africa (including that relat...
Knowledge management (KM) in local governance processes is being transformed through digitization (ICT), spatialization (GIS), and participatory processes; the question is whether this increases the potential for building adaptive capacity and inclusivity. The question is linked to discussions on how knowledge construction and circulation can impro...
This chapter discusses both citizen and stakeholder participation as an instrument in urban governance. Citizens and other non-state actors can be involved in local decision-making in many different ways. Privatization of previously public entities such as municipal water companies, port authorities or educational institutes has created new local a...
Post-apartheid policies have tasked Durban's municipal actors with the responsibility of achieving both inclusiveness and economic growth. However, they are confronted with the deep spatial and socio-economic inequalities resulting from apartheid, as well as the pressure generated by rapid urbanisation. This article analyses Durban's water governan...
This paper explores the evolution of the urban edge concept in the eThekwini Municipality between 2002 and 2013. It uses the theory of governmentality to analyse the discourses and practices of the local state as it attempts to manage rapid urban growth and restructure the post-apartheid city. It reveals how and why the current concept, the urban d...
The main question concerns the ways in which knowledge management configurations (KM) within urban governance are being transformed through digitization and spatializing information (GIS). This question fits into broader discussions on how knowledge construction, circulation and utilization can improve competences in local government (efficiency an...
Resettlement communities in Zimbabwe have been documented to have complicated institutional settings due to overlapping powers amongst; de facto and de jure institutions. These institutions and their interactions over time influence the way individuals and communities experience the plethora of stressors that confront them rendering them vulnerable...
Critical to governance for sustainable and inclusive urban development is access to, and management of, relevant contextual spatial knowledge. Digital geo-technologies such as geographical information systems, online applications and spatial simulation models are increasingly becoming embedded in urban governance processes to produce, utilize, exch...
This paper presents the analytical framework developed iteratively by the research team of the Chance2Sustain (C2S) research project2 between 2010 and July 2014, in order to answer the main research question which was
posed at the outset of the research, namely: how can spatial knowledge management (SKM) and participatory
governance contribute to s...
Thematic Report n°2, Chance2Sustain
This policy brief explores the mapping of city visions in fast-growing cities in several emerging economies (Brazil, South Africa, India, Peru). As cities have to deal increasingly with both complexity and uncertainty in their development, they are concerned with the future pathways their cities can take. City visions on urban development portray i...
Digital and spatial knowledge management in urban governance: Emerging issues in India, Brazil, South Africa, and Peru
The main question concerns the ways in which knowledge management configurations (KM) within urban governance are being transformed through digitization and spatializing information (GIS). This question fits into broader discussion...
This paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under the SEAChange programme of the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR) was used to identify nine main...
The paper aims to describe and analyse three research programmes over the period 1995–2011 managed by the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR), namely the Sea and Coast programmes I and II and the Society, Ecosystems and Change (SEAChange) programme, in relation to the context in which they were initiated. The paper consi...
This reports draws out strategic issues concerning the ways in which digitization and spatialisation of information within local government is changing the interaction between government and citizens in unforeseen directions. It synthesizes the results of fieldwork in five cities within the Chance2Sustain programme, describing the outcomes of new m...
Empirical research shows that good waste management practice in South Africa is not always under the volitional control of those tasked with its implementation. While intention to act may exist, external factors, within the distal and proximal context, create barriers to waste behaviour. In addition, these barriers differ for respondents in municip...
Different types of spatial knowledge (expert, sectoral, tacit and community) are strategic resources in urban planning and management. Participatory spatial knowledge management is a major method for eliciting various types of knowledge, providing a platform for knowledge integration and informing local action and public policy. Knowledge types lin...
The current environmental challenges that most middle- and low-income countries have been experiencing has led to new environmentally sustainable and economically viable sanitation solutions, such as waterless systems with source separation of human waste. We conducted a cross-sectional study in eThekwini municipality to explore the post-implementa...
Combining the process of learning and the theory of planned behaviour into a new theoretical framework provides an opportunity to explore the impact of data on waste behaviour, and consequently on waste management, in South Africa. Fitting the data to the theoretical framework shows that there are only three constructs which have a significant effe...
An empirical study was undertaken with 31 organisations submitting data to the South African Waste Information System (SAWIS) in order to explore the relationship between data and resultant waste knowledge generated through a process of learning. The results show that of the three constructs of knowledge (experience, data/information, and theory),...
Different types of spatial knowledge (expert, sectoral, tacit and community) are strategic resources in urban planning and management. Participatory spatial knowledge management is a major method for eliciting various types of knowledge, providing a platform for knowledge integration and informing local action and public policy. Knowledge types lin...
Piloting of the South African Waste Information System (SAWIS) provided an opportunity to research whether the collection of data for a national waste information system could, through a process of learning, change the way that waste is managed in the country, such that there is a noticeable improvement. The interviews with officials from municipal...
Different forms of spatial knowledge (expert, tacit, sector and community knowledge) are a strategic resource in urban development. Research methods concerning participatory data collection and analysis that elicit and integrate the various forms of knowledge or co-produce knowledge through collaboration between scholars and practitioners have the...
In the field of risk management, there is growing recognition that traditional tools of analysis may be limited in their ability to arrive at a textured understanding of risk as it is actually experienced by communities. This paper begins with the premise that risk is socially constructed by lay people, as well as by scientists, and that this recog...
The emergence of an environmental movement in post-apartheid South Africa has involved the reframing of the environment as a ‘brown’ issue, articulating the discourse of social and environmental justice and a rights-based notion of democracy. Environmental movements have pursued a dual strategy of deliberation and activist opposition. Environmental...
This paper develops a relational understanding of the geographies of citizenship action, using the example of environmental
activism in Durban as an empirical reference point. We argue that citizenship involves an interactive dynamic shaped by different
actors’ capacities to project authority and influence over distance by enacting different modali...
Drawing on recent political theory that examines the relationship between inclusive deliberation and oppositional activism in processes of democratisation, we develop a case study of environmental justice mobilisation in post-apartheid South Africa. We focus on the emergence of a network of social movement organisations embedded in particular local...
Sustainable development is now widely accepted as a policy framework in planning and development both internationally and in South Africa. Within this framework, technocentric scientific approaches to environmental management, which are reflective of weak ecological modernization, have dominated environmental practice both in the developed and deve...
In South Africa an intensive reform process to democratize policy, legislation and related institutions in the country commenced after the first democratic elections in 1994. While environmental law reform includes active public participation and equity principles, it is proposed in this paper that ecological modernization dominates current environ...
This article presents a contribution to recent efforts in South African geographical research to examine historical landscapes as an integration of concerns with the broader discourses of modernism with more established concerns about the production of racial discourse. It aims to show how the construction of the South Durban industrial zone, in th...
The paper aims to evaluate the potential of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the creation of a health information system (HIS) for cancer. A case study describes the spatial distribution of reported cancer in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and correlates this with levels of development. The study illustrates the problems of data shortage in a...
In the last decade, environmental management has emerged as an exciting and relevant sub-discipline of geography in South Africa in line with global trends. The paper examines the relationship between geography and environmental management in South Africa; the role that geographer's are playing in this discipline; and the future of this relationshi...
DIANNE SCOTT, CATHERINE OELOFSE and CARADEE GUY look at women's exposure to environmental risk in South Durban and the role they play in the struggle to improve their living environment
There is a growing pressure, both internationally and particularly in South Africa, to include people in a more democratic form of environmental management necessitating a more holistic and interdisciplinary approach. Within this context, the paper documents a case study of public participation in the regulation of marine waste disposal. This invol...
Thesis (Ph.D.-Geographical and Environmental Sciences)-University of Natal, 1994.
Potential impacts on the estuarine ecology of the Mgeni River, South Africa resulting from the construction of the Inanda Dam are discussed. Management strategies which have been suggested to alleviate the negative impacts are outlined. An underlying theme in the paper is the lack of any holistic legislation in South Africa for the protection of th...
The paper examines the social impacts of the Inanda Dam which is under construction on the Mgeni River in KwaZulu. The dam constitutes an infrastructural development to serve primarily the industrial and urban economy of white Natal. The building of the dam in the largest bantustan in South Africa has political implications since the local populati...
OBJECTIVE The Inclusive Adaptation sessions will bring expert practitioners and academics together to discuss issues related to participatory planning in the context of cities vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The purpose of this session - also see D2 of this stream- is to critically examine aspects of participatory planning: what it loo...
This paper develops a relational understanding of the geographies of citizenship action, using the example of environmental activism in Durban as an empirical reference point. We argue that citizenship involves an interactive dynamic shaped by different actors’ capacities to project authority and influence over distance by enacting different modali...
