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Applied Urban Research, Academic Research
Growing Communities: Integrating the social and economic benefits of urban agriculture in Cape Town
There has been growing interest in the use of urban agriculture to address food insecurity and poverty in Cape Town. This reflects debates on urban agriculture in the global south. In the North, growi ...
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Applied Urban Research
Brokering communities of knowledge and practice: Reflections on the African Centre for Cities' CityLab programme
Calls for greater engagement between academia and society to address mounting societal problems per- sist. The African Centre for Cities, a University of Cape Town research entity, set up the CityLab ...
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Applied Urban Research
Flows, Friction, and the Sociomaterial Metabolization of Alcohol
Mary Lawhon's piece 'Flows, Friction, and the Sociomaterial Metabolization of Alcohol' was recently published by Antipode. Abstract below: Political ecologists have considered the ...
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Applied Urban Research
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: A Global Assessment of the Links between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
Overview of Cities and Biodiversity Outlook —Action and Policy CBO – Action and Policy provides the summary of a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodi- versity, and ec ...
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Applied Urban Research
The changing spatial economy of cities: An exploratory analysis of Cape Town
The spatial economy of South African cities is generally believed to be experiencing selective deconcentration, which may exacerbate social inequality because of the physical disconnection between job ...
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Academic Research
Beyond the Food Desert: Finding Ways to Speak about Urban Food Security in South Africa
Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the field is current- ly under-researched and under-theorized. Urban food insecurity, where it is considered, ...
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Academic Research
Dumping Ground or Country-in-Transition? Exploring the Relevance of Global Electronic Waste Discourses to South Africa. In Press in Environment and Planning C
Abstract Electronic waste (e-waste) has become a point of interest for social and technical scientists, activists, and policy-makers. In South Africa, researchers, consultants and industry have worked ...
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Academic Research
Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions: Insights from political ecology. Progress in Human Geography 36 (3): 354 - 378.
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a core focus of geography, linking subfields such as urban, economic, and political ecology, yet strategies for achieving this goal remain illusive. Socio-techn ...
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Applied Urban Research
A Participatory Approach to Data Collection for GIS for Flood Risk Management in Informal Settlements of Cape Town
A by-product of the apartheid era in South Africa is that most informal settlements in Cape Town are situated on marginal and often poorly drained land. Consequently, most of these settlements are pro ...
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Applied Urban Research
Learning to swim: Strengthening flooding governance in the City of Cape Town
Vulnerability to flooding is a growing concern in cities of the South, where resources are concentrated and poor people often settle in flood prone areas. Climate change projections of increased inten ...
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Academic Research
Urban Food Security Series No. 6: Urban Food Insecurity and the Advent of Food Banking in Southern Africa
In most African cities, there is sufficient food to feed everyone and considerable wastage of fresh and processed foodstuffs. Poor households are food insecure because they cannot afford to purchase e ...
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Academic Research
Urban Food Security Series No. 5: The HIV and Urban Food Security Nexus
Considerable attention has been devoted to the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on small farmers and the food security of the rural poor. Despite the rapid progression of the epidemic in rural area ...
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