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The Impact of System Integration on System Costs of a Neighborhood Energy and Water System
Energies, 2021 The fossil-based energy system is transitioning towards a renewable energy system. One important aspect is the spatial and temporal mismatch between intermitted supply and continuous demand.
Els van der Roest +5 more
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BRICS and the Race to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050: Is COVID-19 a Barrier or an Opportunity?
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2022 : The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have significant influence on the global economic and environmental trajectories.
Lazarus Chapungu +3 more
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Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa
Ecology and Society, 2022 Anticipating, avoiding, and managing disruptive environmental change such as regime shifts and the impacts it has on human well-being is a key sustainability challenge.
Linda Luvuno +3 more
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Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 In most developed economies where decarbonisation processes are already in place, economic crises have coincided with a peak and subsequently declining emissions as a result of lower carbon and energy intensities, according to a statistical analysis of ...
Germán Bersalli +2 more
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Ecosystems and People, 2023 We explore the social processes supporting transformation towards collaborative water governance in the uMngeni catchment, South Africa. Using Holling’s adaptive cycle as a heuristic of phases (conservation, release, reorganisation and exploitation ...
Catherine B. Pringle +5 more
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The politics of sustainability transitions [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2016 Sustainability transitions are processes of fundamental social change in response to societal challenges (Grin, Rotmans, & Schot, 2010; Markard, Raven, & Truffer, 2012).
Avelino, F. +3 more
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Climate change risk assessment of heritage tourism sites within South African national parks
International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2022 Climate change and variability are among the most critical threats facing heritage sites across the world. However, despite the threats posed by climate change and variability on heritage tourism sites, there are limited research and management ...
D. Chikodzi +3 more
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Jàmbá, 2021 This study used a mixed-methods research design to examine the sensitivity of vector-borne disease (VBD) patterns to the changes in rainfall and temperature trends. The research focused on malaria in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe.
Lazarus Chapungu, Godwell Nhamo
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Accountability and Sustainability Transitions
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Abstract What constitutes a sustainability transition? We identify sustainability transitions as premised on shifts in accountability relations – assessments of conformance with institutional controls coupled with application of sanctions, incentives, and subsidies – which structure the selection pressures that shape future demographics, technical ...
Sareen, Siddharth, Wolf, Steven A.
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The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice
Ecosystems and People, 2023 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.
Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs +31 more
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