The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice
- Authors: Biggs, Reinette , Reyers, Belinda , Blanchard, Ryan , Clements, Hayley S , Cockburn, Jessica J , Cumming, Graeme S , Cundill, Georgina , de Vos, Alta , Dziba, Luthando E , Esler, Karen J , Fabricius, Christo , Hamann, Maike , Henriksson, Rebecka , Kotschy, Karen , Lindborg, Regina , Luvuno, Linda , Masterson, Vanessa A , Nel, Jeanne L , O'Farrell, Patrick , Palmer, Carolyn G , Pereira, Laura , Pollard, Sharon , Preiser, Rika , Roux, Dirk J , Scholes, Robert J , Selomane, Odirlwe , Shackleton, Charlie M , Shackleton, Sheona E , Sitas, Nadia , Slingsby, Jasper A , Spierenburg, Marja , Tengö, Maria
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/401330 , vital:69726 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2150317"
- Description: Sustainability-focused research networks and communities of practice have emerged as a key response and strategy to build capacity and knowledge to support transformation towards more sustainable, just and equitable futures. This paper synthesises insights from the development of a community of practice on social-ecological systems (SES) research in southern Africa over the past decade, linked to the international Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS). This community consists of a network of researchers who carry out place-based SES research in the southern African region. They interact through various cross-cutting working groups and also host a variety of public colloquia and student and practitioner training events. Known as the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS), its core objectives are to: (1) derive new approaches and empirical insights on SES dynamics in the southern African context; (2) have a tangible impact by mainstreaming knowledge into policy and practice; and (3) grow the community of practice engaged in SES research and governance, including researchers, students and practitioners. This paper reflects on experiences in building the SAPECS community, with the aim of supporting the development of similar networks elsewhere in the world, particularly in the Global South.
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Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society
- Authors: Biggs, Reinette , Clements, Hayley S , Cumming, Graeme S , Cundill, Georgina , de Vos, Alta , Hamann, Maike , Luvuno, Linda , Roux, Dirk J , Selomane, Odirlwe , Blanchard, Ryan , Cockburn, Jessica J , Dziba, Luthando E , Esler, Karen J , Fabricius, Christo , Henriksson, Rebecka , Kotschy, Karen , Lindborg, Regina , Masterson, Vanessa A , Nel, Jeanne L , O'Farrell, Patrick , Palmer, Carolyn G , Pereira, Laura , Pollard, Sharon , Preiser, Rika , Scholes, Robert J , Shackleton, Charlie M , Shackleton, Sheona E , Sitas, Nadia , Slingsby, Jasper A , Spierenburg, Maria , Tengö, Maria , Reyers, Belinda
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/399817 , vital:69561 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2097478"
- Description: Social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as an important area of sustainability science, informing and supporting pressing issues of transformation towards more sustainable, just and equitable futures. To date, much SES research has been done in or from the Global North, where the challenges and contexts for supporting sustainability transformations are substantially different from the Global South. This paper synthesises emerging insights on SES dynamics that can inform actions and advance research to support sustainability transformations specifically in the southern African context. The paper draws on work linked to members of the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS), a leading SES research network in the region, synthesizing key insights with respect to the five core themes of SAPECS: (i) transdisciplinary and engaged research, (ii) ecosystem services and human well-being, (iii) governance institutions and management practices, (iv) spatial relationships and cross-scale connections, and (v) regime shifts, traps and transformations. For each theme, we focus on insights that are particularly novel, interesting or important in the southern African context, and reflect on key research gaps and emerging frontiers for SES research in the region going forward. Such place-based insights are important for understanding the variation in SES dynamics around the world, and are crucial for informing a context-sensitive global agenda to foster sustainability transformations at local to global scales.
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How to think and act in ways that make Adaptive IWRM practically possible
- Authors: Palmer, Carolyn G , Biggs, Harry , Rogers, Kevin H , du Toit, Derick , Pollard, Sharon
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437937 , vital:73423 , ISBN 978-1 4312-0984-2 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/SP 116-18 web.pdf
- Description: “We cross the river by feeling the stones with our feet” (Chinese proverb). Most of the ideas in this handbook you already know from living your life. Here we put your everyday experience and knowledge into the language of managing water. In the last twenty years, there has been a lot of talk about new ways to make Integrated Water Resource Management or “IWRM” work, but not nearly as much useful knowledge about how to put those ideas into practice. We now know how to use a set of ideas and ways of understanding that help us to make IWRM really work prac-tically. We call this practical way of working: Adaptive IWRM. This is the first in a series of handbooks to come out of a WRC project Practising Adaptive IWRM (Inte-grated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in South Africa: towards practising a new paradigm* [TPNP]). The TPNP project researchers have had experience with many different situations in southern Africa, where people have grappled* with put-ting the ideas of complexity* and integration into practice.
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Practising Adaptive IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) in South Africa
- Authors: Palmer, Carolyn G , Munnik, Victor , du Toit, Derick , Rogers, Kevin H , Pollard, Sharon , Hamer, Nick , Weaver, Matthew J T , Retief, Hugo , Sahula, Asiphe , O’Keeffe, Jay H
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438005 , vital:73428 , ISBN 978-1-4312-0983-5 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/2248-1-18.pdf
- Description: This chapter serves as a general introduction to the TPNP case stud-ies, with feedback from the progress of the RESILIM-O project. We draw attention here, and note clearly, that each case is set in a different context and scale, and proceeded in different ways, as well as combin-ing in use different discourses/practices and methodologies. To ensure a basis for comparability, each case study was required to use the Adaptive IWRM approach and methodologies, while not being required to record results in the same format. Case studies were designed to enable an exploration of scale effects–a core theoretical concept in complex social-ecological systems. We will be in a position to write a scholarly paper on a scale-comparison of practice-based Adaptive IWRM learning at different spatial and governance (institutional and social) scales, as a result of these findings.
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Deelname Aan Die Bestuur Van Waterhulpbronne In Suid-Afrika
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , du Toit, Derick , Neves, David , Pollard, Sharon , Berold, Robert , Stanford, Mindy
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437569 , vital:73394 , ISBN 1-77005-501-0 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT288-06.pdf
- Description: Die Nasionale Waterwet (1998) maak dit moontlik vir gewone mense om deel te neem aan die bestuur van waterhulpbronne. Hierdie boek bespreek wat deelname in die praktyk beteken. Die navorsing vir hierdie boek is tussen 2003 en 2005 gedoen deur ‘n groep deskundiges in die bestuur van water as hulpbron. Die navorsers het tot twee belangrike gevolgtrekkings gekom, naamlik: 1. Hoe ons die konsep ‘deelname’ verstaan, het ‘n direkte invloed op hoe ons water as hulpbron bestuur. Daarom is dit nodig om ons kennis en ervaring van deelname in die bestuur van wa-terhulpbronne te verdiep. 2. Ons het praktiese riglyne nodig wanneer ons deelname in die bestuur van waterhulpbronne beplan, maar hierdie riglyne behoort buigbaar te wees sodat die aard van die deelname by elke situasie of konteks kan aanpas.
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Learning about participation in integrated water resources management: A South African review
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , du Toit, Derick , Neves, David , Pollard, Sharon
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433025 , vital:72924 , xlink:href="https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT293-06.pdf"
- Description: The National Water Act (1998) opens the way for ordinary people to take part in water resource management (WRM). This is a significant move towards a more social orientation and away from an approach that focused almost exclusively on the technical aspects of WRM. This set of two books asks what a social orientation means in practice. Since the National Water Act became law in 1998, how have WRM practitioners involved people in the process of managing water? What have we learnt so far? And how can we use these lessons to move forward? The content of the books is based on research that looked in some depth at national and local participatory practice in South Africa, and also broadly at international trends. The research was conducted by three WRM practitioners and two researchers in the field of participatory approaches.
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Participation in Water Resource Management: Book One
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , du Toit, Derick , Neves, David , Pollard, Sharon , Berold, Robert , Stanford, Mindy
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437641 , vital:73399 , ISBN 1-77005-506-1 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT293-06.pdf
- Description: The National Water Act (1998) opens the way for ordinary people to take part in water resource management (WRM). This is a significant move towards a more so-cial orientation and away from an approach that focused almost exclusively on the technical aspects of WRM. This set of two books asks what a social orientation means in practice. Since the National Water Act became law in 1998, how have WRM practitioners involved people in the process of managing water? What have we learnt so far? And how can we use these lessons to move forward? The content of the books is based on research that looked in some depth at national and local participatory practice in South Africa, and also broadly at international trends. The research was conducted by three WRM practitioners and two researchers in the field of participatory approaches.
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U Dzhenelela Kha Vhulanguli Ha Zwiko Zwa Madi
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , du Toit, Derick , Neves, David , Pollard, Sharon , Berold, Robert , Stanford, Mindy
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437657 , vital:73400 , ISBN 1-77005-504-5 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT291-06.pdf
- Description: Mulayo wa Lushakawa Madi (1998) u vulela ndila vhathu zwavho uri vha kone u dzhenelela kha Ndangulo ya Zwiko zwa Madi (WRM). Bugu iyi i amba nga uri u shela mulennzhe kana u dzhenelela ndi mini kha nyito. Thodisiso ya bugu iyi yo yo itwa nga tshigwada tsha vho gudelaho Ndangulo ya Zwiko zwa Madi (WRM) vhukati ha 2003 na 2005. Vhatodisisi vho da na themendelo mbili dza ndeme: 1. Kupfesesele kwashu kwa ipfi “u dzhenelela” zwi tou vha na vhukwamani thwii na uri ri langa hani zwiko zwa madi. Zwenezwo ri tea u khwathisedza ndivho yashu na tshenzhemo kha u dzhenelela kha WRM.( Ndangulo ya Zwiko zwa Madi) 2. Ri toda tsivhudzo yo teaho musi ri tshi pulana u dzhenelela kha zwa zwa WRM, hone tsivhudzo iyi i tea u kona u shandukisea uri maitele a u dzhenelela avhe o teaho kha nyimele inwe nainwe kana dzothe. Bugu iyi yo khethekanywa nga kha zwipida zwivhili: Tshipida, thoho U dzhenelela kha Ndangulo ya Zwiko zwa Madi kha la Afrika Tshipembe , zwi sumbedza uri mihumbulo yo fhambanho ya vhathu na zwi anganyelwaho zwa tu-tuwedza uri vha nga langa hani zwiko zwa madi.
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U Ho Ba Le Seabo Taolong Ya Mehlodi Ya Metsi Afrika Borwa
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , du Toit, Derick , Neves, David , Pollard, Sharon , Berold, Robert , Stanford, Mindy
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437625 , vital:73398 , ISBN 1-77005-503-7 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT290-06.pdf
- Description: Molao wa Naha wa Metsi (1998) o neha batho monyetla wa ho ba le seabo Taolong ya Mehlodi ya Metsi. Buka ena e bua ka se bolelwang ke ho ba le seabo. Diphuputso tsa buka ena di entswe ke sehlopha sa basebetsi ba diprofeshenale tsa Taolo ya Mehlodi ya Metsi mahareng a 2003 le 2005. Bafuputsi ba ile ba fihlela diqeto tsa bohlokwa tse pedi: 1. Kutlwisiso ya rona ya mohopolo wa “ho ba le seabo” e ama ka ho toba tsela eo re laolang mehlodi ya rona ya metsi. Ka hoo re lokela ho tebisa tsebo ya rona le boiphihlelo ba ho ba le seabo Taolong ya Mehlodi ya Metsi. 2. Re hloka tataiso e sebetsang ha re rera ho ba le seabo Taolong ya Mehlodi ya Metsi, empa tataiso ena e tshwanela ho kgona ho fetoha le mabaka hore mofuta wa ho ba le seabo o tshwanelehe bakeng sa boemo kapa ketsahalo ka nngwe.
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Ukuthabatha Inxaxheba Kulawulo Lwemithombo Yamanzi Emzantsi Afrika
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , du Toit, Derick , Neves, David , Pollard, Sharon , Berold, Robert , Stanford, Mindy
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437670 , vital:73401 , ISBN 1-77005-505-3 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT292-06.pdf
- Description: UmThetho weSizwe waManzi (National Water Act) (1998) uvula indlela yokuba abantu nje abaqhelekileyo bathabathe inxaxheba kuLawulo lwemiThombo yaManzi (Water Resource Management) (WRM). Le ncwadi ixoxa ngokuba ukuthabatha inxaxheba kuthetha ntoni na xa kusenziwa. Uphando lwale ncwadi lwenziwe nga-magcisa angabasebenzi eqela le-WRM phakathi kuka-2003 no-2005. Abaphathi baf-ikelela kwizigqibo zemiba emibini ebalulekileyo: 1. Ukuqonda kwethu “ukuthabatha inxaxheba” kuchaphazela ngqo ukuba siyiphatha njani imithombo yamanzi. Ngoko ke kufuneka sense nzulu ulwazi lwethu kunye namava okuthabatha inxaxheba kwi-WRM. 2. Sifuna ukhokelo olusebenzayo xa sicebela uthabatho nxaxheba lwe-WRM, kodwa olu khokelo kufuneka lube nokuguquka ukwenzela ukuba ubunjani bothabatho nxaxheba lufaneleke kwisimo okanye kumxholo ngamnye.
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