Author:Du Plessis, CDate:Sep 2008This paper builds on earlier ecological approaches to urban development, as well as more recent thinking in the fields of sustainability science, resilience thinking and complexity theory, to propose a conceptual framework for understanding ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, CDate:Jun 2009Planning problems have been described as inherently wicked, that are difficult to define, unpredictable, and defying standard principles of science and rational decision making. Sustainability science is a new area of science that focuses ...Read more