Overview
Stellenbosch faces the same challenges that most South African urban areas face: rapid urbanisation, sluggish economic growth, growing inequalities, unsustainable use of natural resources, deteriorating biodiversity, social problems, unhealthy living, insecure supplies of healthy food, degrading soils, infrastructure backlogs and inadequate urban planning. At the same time, Stellenbosch has tremendous potential. It brings together in one beautiful place extra-ordinary intellectual capacity, social diversity, financial resources, creative potential, high value eco-systems, spiritual energy and some of South Africas most vibrant grassroots social movements in its poorest areas.
Full Product Details
Author: Lynn Quinn
Publisher: African Sun Media
Imprint: Sun Press
Dimensions:
Width: 19.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 24.50cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9781920338558
ISBN 10: 1920338551
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 12 November 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Sustainable Stellenbosch - Opening Dialogues is an interdisciplinary collection of thoughtprovoking academic essays about the challenges facing Stellenbosch as a place, a community and an ecosystem . Desmond Thompson, Stellenbosch Style Sustainable Stellenbosch is a hugely ambitious attempt at a grand unification theory for a single town - and the authors have pulled it off. Not by any means a perfect document, ... it nevertheless straddles a staggering breadth of disciplines. This book has chartered new territories in the search for a responsible and dignified existence for all. David Pepler
Author Information
Prof Mark Swilling is Programme Director of the Sustainable Development Programme at Stellenbosch University's School of Public Leadership, as well as Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute. He is responsible for the coordination of Master's and Doctoral programmes in sustainable development and has conducted extensive research on ways to make urban systems more sustainable. Prof Ben Sebitosi is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University. He teaches two postgraduate modules in renewable and solar energy, and acts as supervisor to Master's and Doctoral students from the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Public Leadership. Ruenda Loots works as a project coordinator for the Sustainability Institute and has coordinated various publications and educational programmes. She is also a member of BiomimicrySA and runs workshops for tertiary institutions. Ruenda is currently completing her PhD in biochemistry at Stellenbosch University.
