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biosphere reserves, social-ecological systems, global environmental change, environmental governance, natural resource management, transdisciplinary, climate change

Biography

Senior lecture at the University of Pretoria: Department of Geography, Geoinformatics & Meteorology (South Africa) since 2023. Prior to that based at the Global Change Institute University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Rhodes University (Department of Environmental Sciences (South Africa), Lecturer) . Doctoral studies (Applied Ecology) completed in 2014 (Department of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand).

Current research focuses on understanding ecosystem behaviour as it is shaped through the actions of landscape actors and institutions at various scales, with a particular interest on environmental governance at the landscape scale. In this respect, my focus is on finding pathways to improved human-nature relationships in social-ecological systems (SESes), with a specific interest in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves:– how they operate as sustainability organisations, how they curate sustainability pathways in the landscapes they are found, how they support more equitable and participatory decision-making around the environment, more sustainable resource-use behaviour, and thus, more sustainable local livelihoods long-term. Visit the websites listed to read more.