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Addressing business from a social-ecological perspective to understand and deal with risk and resilience

Author: Haywood, Lorren K ; Nel, D ; Trotter, D Date: Aug 2010 Corporate sustainability, as currently practiced, is largely directed at reducing direct and immediate environmental impacts in terms of resource consumption and waste emissions. Despite two decades of engagement with corporate sustainability, ... Read more
Applying Bayesian modelling to assess climate change effects on biofuel production

Author: Peter, C ; De Lange, Willem J ; Musango, JK ; April, K ; Potgieter, A Date: Dec 2009 Socioeconomic and ecological systems exhibit complex, interdependent behaviour which is often difficult to model and understand. This is due to the complex reorganisation of key sub-system processes involving nonlinear, cross-scale and ... Read more
Building resilience into business strategy, management and reporting: Principles and maturity tool to facilitate resilience in business, 2016

Author: Haywood, Lorren K ; Van der Watt, C Date: Sep 2016 This is a conference presentation on Building resilience into business strategy. Resilience within business is very appealing in that, it enables organisations to put sustainability into context: business is not a self-contained system but ... Read more
Climate risk and vulnerability: A handbook for Southern Africa

Author: Davis, Claire L ; Vincent, K Date: Oct 2017 The handbook (Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa) was conceived and designed with the intent to provide decision-makers with up-to-date information, appropriate for country planning, on the impacts and risks of ... Read more
Community perspectives as an essential element of resilience thinking: Resilience from a view of inequality

Author: Dlamini, Sifiso B ; Meyer, Isabella A Date: Dec 2020 Resilience is a popular concept in development studies, particularly in research and development on how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve livelihoods. As much as the primary focus is on using ICTs to ... Read more
Convex relationships in ecosystems containing mixtures of trees and grass

Author: Scholes, RJ Date: Dec 2003 The relationship between grass production and the quantity of trees in mixed tree-grass ecosystems (savannas) is convex for all or most of its range. In other words, the grass production declines more steeply per unit increase in tree quantity ... Read more
Corporate sustainability: a social-ecological research agenda for South African business

Author: Haywood, Lorren K ; Brent, AC ; Trotter, DH ; Wise, R Date: 2010 In this paper authors consider the increasingly prominent expectations that business can and will significantly contribute to sustainable development. They use the framework of social-ecological systems, and the principles thereof, as a lens ... Read more
Does the Built Environment Sustainability Tool (BEST) address resilience sufficiently?

Author: Gibberd, Jeremy T Date: May 2019 Climate change is already having significant impacts globally. These impacts are experienced most acutely in developing countries where infrastructure and population are often more vulnerable and resources and capacity for mitigation are ... Read more
Does the sustainable building assessment tool address resilience sufficiently?

Author: Gibberd, Jeremy T Date: May 2019 Climate change is already having significant impacts globally. These impacts are experienced most acutely in developing countries where infrastructure and population are often more vulnerable and resources and capacity for adaptation are ... Read more
ICT4D and sustainability

Author: Marais, Mario A Date: Feb 2015 Sustainability is a systems concept, and ICT4D plays a vital role in a sustainable earth, as well as in sustainable communities. The concept of resilience is introduced since rapid change can push a system into another, possibly undesirable ... Read more
Implementing a GIS based methodology for determining highly vulnerable rural access roads to a changing climate in Ethiopia

Author: Arnold, Kathryn A ; Le Roux, Alize ; Makhanya, Sibusisiwe A Date: Sep 2018 Climate-related natural disasters have been steadily increasing in both incidence and intensity across the globe over the last century. This is especially true for Ethiopia given the country’s high and recurrent exposure to extreme droughts ... Read more
Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into disaster risk reduction

Author: Reyers, B ; Nel, JL ; O'Farrell, Patrick J ; Sitas, Nadia E ; Nel, DC Date: Jun 2015 Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an ... Read more
Principles for internalising systems resilience into business management and value creation

Author: Haywood, Lorren K ; Nahman, Anton ; De Wet, Benita ; Nortje, Karen ; Van Der Watt, C ; Kelling, NK Date: 2019 This article introduces principles for internalising the concept of social ecological systems resilience into business management and value creation. It is no longer enough for businesses to simply reduce their impact on the environment. ... Read more
Resilience of South African communal grazing lands after the removal of high grazing pressure

Author: Harrison, YA ; Shackleton, CM Date: May 1999 A paired site study was conducted of communally grazed eutrophic and dystrophic grasslands and adjacent ungrazed areas of varying periods of exclusion from communal grazing. This allowed determination of the rate and extent of change of a ... Read more
Securing a sustainable future through a new global contract between rich and poor

Author: De Lange, Willem J ; Wise, RM ; Nahman, Anton Date: 2009 Global sustainable development depends on the capacity of natural, social and economic systems to adapt to external stimuli. However, building this adaptive capacity in the developing world context of Sub-Sahara Africa will require substantial ... Read more
Thinking about sustainable development: Engaging with societal and ecological concepts

Author: Marais, Mario A Date: Nov 2010 The concept of sustainable development has increased in importance ever since the coming to prominence of environmental critiques of development in the 1980s. The very concept of sustainability has evolved as research on the dynamics of ... Read more
A three year profile comparison of a group of Special Operations candidates

Author: Van Heerden, Adelai ; De Beer, Morris Date: Sep 2015 The present mixed methods study is based on responses to open-ended questions posed as well as quantitative positive psychology construct questionnaire data of three different year groups of military Special Operations Forces candidates. The ... Read more
Towards a resilience framework for integrating and using mobile technologies in South African public rural schools: Theoretical considerations

Author: Dlamini, Sifiso B ; Turpin, M Date: Jul 2020 South Africa has seen research and development (R&D) efforts in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) to provide rural schools with mobile technologies for improving the quality of teaching and learning. The ... Read more
Towards nature-based resilience in infrastructure development and assessment: An introductory guide

Author: Audouin, Michelle A ; Sitas, Nadia Date: Apr 2020 Infrastructure is critical to Africa's development and its ability to address poverty. The development of such infrastructure, however, needs to be undertaken in a way that is adaptable to a world of increasing uncertainty and environmental ... Read more
Understanding cities as social-ecological systems

Author: Du Plessis, C Date: Sep 2008 This 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

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