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The Wall: Exploring inequality, waste and hope in Vrygrond and the adjacent Capricorn Business Park Read more Atrazine: A lively chemical journey Read more Texturing absence: a geography of the disappeared Woodstock Beach Read more The river multiple: An ethnography of relating to the Kuils River in Cape Town Read more Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transition: The Tsitsikamma community renewable wind farm story Read more History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma: The police dog as a site of living memory Read more Restor(y)ing relationships with nature. Towards transformative possibilities: Cape Flats Nature Read more Living with Mount Mabo in Mozambique: Rethinking science, conservation and development in the context of neocoloniality and mass extinctions Read more The impact of industrial agrarian policies on soils: Experiences of small-scale farmers in the rural Eastern Cape Read more Zones of dissonance: Cape Town, Koeberg and nuclearity Read more The hydro politics of living with urban wetlands in Zimbabwe: pasts, presents and future Read more Soil, bodies and animist worlds: Towards a decolonial politics of the environment in the global South Read more An exploration on the consumption of whales in the South Durban Basin, South Africa Read more Living with the Zeekoevlei: an ethnography on historicizing relationships with/to plastic, wastewater and solid waste pollution Read more Sonic apartheid: Ecoracism, apartheid geographies and noise pollution in the Symphony Way temporary relocation area in Cape Town Read more Modelling human well-being for fisheries management: Science, extraction and a politics of nature in Walvis Bay, Namibia Read more Living with elephants: Conservations and plantations in the Western Ghats, India Read more Evaluating the impact of beach clean-ups on participants' relationship with plastics Read more The gap between research and action on women's experiences of climate change Read more Living with water: An ethnographic study relating to water in the Hout Bay suburb of Cape Town for a water-sensitive “liveable” neighbourhood Read more Contaminated evidence? A study of data regarding Cape Town’s marine effluent outfalls Read more Carbon forestry politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Case study of Mai-Ndombe jurisdictional REDD+ programme Read more Assisting Africa: A critical analysis of technical assistance in low carbon development practice Read more The militarisation of conservation, violence and local people: The case of Sikumi Forest Reserve in Zimbabwe Read more Rivers that become reservoirs: An ethnography of water commodification in Lesotho Read more Ebbs and flows: More-than-human encounters with the Cape Flats Aquifer in a context of climate change Read more From seed-as-object to seed-as-relation Read more People and conservation at crossroads: A case study of the Mauritius flying fox (Pteropus niger) culling controversy on the island state of Mauritius Read more Multi-species ethnography of Dwesa Cwebe, South Africa Read more Enacting contested landscapes: Dwelling, conservation, and prospecting in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana Read more Reimagining healthcare: Unpacking the importance of integrating African pharmacologies in South Africa’s healthcare system Read more Community-based natural resource management: The case of community forest management areas in Pete, Zanzibar Read more Understanding the impacts of an uncertain climate environment on pastoral practice in Kajiado, Kenya Read more The impact of herbicide use on soil under genetically modified crop production in South Africa Read more Government policy and indigenous agricultural practices in Lesotho: A modernist development model vs socio-cultural and environmental realities Read more Where values flow: In search of a politics and ethic of care Read more The impact of farm input subsidies in among smallholder farmers in Malawi Read more Rethinking interspecies contact zones: An actor-network analysis of urban conflict in an effort to conserve a marine resource Read more Hippopotami in a liminal space: A grounded theory multi-species inquiry of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi Read more Towards alternative Karoo stories: An ethnographic inquiry into the multiple ontologies that come to gather on a damaged landscape Read more Examination of connections to urban wetlands: A case study of Marlborough wetland in Harare Read more An inquiry into modes of existing with the Khayelitsha Wetlands Park in peri-urban areas of Cape Town Read more
The Wall: Exploring inequality, waste and hope in Vrygrond and the adjacent Capricorn Business Park Read more
Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transition: The Tsitsikamma community renewable wind farm story Read more
History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma: The police dog as a site of living memory Read more
Restor(y)ing relationships with nature. Towards transformative possibilities: Cape Flats Nature Read more
Living with Mount Mabo in Mozambique: Rethinking science, conservation and development in the context of neocoloniality and mass extinctions Read more
The impact of industrial agrarian policies on soils: Experiences of small-scale farmers in the rural Eastern Cape Read more
Soil, bodies and animist worlds: Towards a decolonial politics of the environment in the global South Read more
Living with the Zeekoevlei: an ethnography on historicizing relationships with/to plastic, wastewater and solid waste pollution Read more
Sonic apartheid: Ecoracism, apartheid geographies and noise pollution in the Symphony Way temporary relocation area in Cape Town Read more
Modelling human well-being for fisheries management: Science, extraction and a politics of nature in Walvis Bay, Namibia Read more
Living with water: An ethnographic study relating to water in the Hout Bay suburb of Cape Town for a water-sensitive “liveable” neighbourhood Read more
Carbon forestry politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Case study of Mai-Ndombe jurisdictional REDD+ programme Read more
Assisting Africa: A critical analysis of technical assistance in low carbon development practice Read more
The militarisation of conservation, violence and local people: The case of Sikumi Forest Reserve in Zimbabwe Read more
Ebbs and flows: More-than-human encounters with the Cape Flats Aquifer in a context of climate change Read more
People and conservation at crossroads: A case study of the Mauritius flying fox (Pteropus niger) culling controversy on the island state of Mauritius Read more
Enacting contested landscapes: Dwelling, conservation, and prospecting in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana Read more
Reimagining healthcare: Unpacking the importance of integrating African pharmacologies in South Africa’s healthcare system Read more
Community-based natural resource management: The case of community forest management areas in Pete, Zanzibar Read more
Understanding the impacts of an uncertain climate environment on pastoral practice in Kajiado, Kenya Read more
The impact of herbicide use on soil under genetically modified crop production in South Africa Read more
Government policy and indigenous agricultural practices in Lesotho: A modernist development model vs socio-cultural and environmental realities Read more
Rethinking interspecies contact zones: An actor-network analysis of urban conflict in an effort to conserve a marine resource Read more
Hippopotami in a liminal space: A grounded theory multi-species inquiry of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi Read more
Towards alternative Karoo stories: An ethnographic inquiry into the multiple ontologies that come to gather on a damaged landscape Read more
Examination of connections to urban wetlands: A case study of Marlborough wetland in Harare Read more
An inquiry into modes of existing with the Khayelitsha Wetlands Park in peri-urban areas of Cape Town Read more
