Browsing by Subject "Panarchy"

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Exploring panarchy and social-ecological resilience: towards understanding water history in precolonial Southern Africa

Tempelhoff, Johann (The Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)

There is a growing corpus of social-ecological thinking in the field of resilience studies.One example is the pioneering work of Gunderson and Holling (2002) on panarchy. The work has had a significant impacton disciplinary ...
The ‘long now’ of southern African water: exploring aspects of enchantment and disenchantment in Brandfort

Tempelhoff, Johann (2015)

Strategies aimed at understanding contemporary South African water supply and sanitation problems require a broad view of factors such as migration, urbanisation and climate change. Working from a case study of the water ...
The application of a resilience assessment approach to promote campus environmental management: a South African case study

Tempelhoff, Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas; Muller, Irene (Emerald, 2016)

Purpose - This paper aims to outline the benefits of using resilience assessment instead of command and control mechanisms to evaluate sustainable campus environments. Design/methodology/approach - An exploratory mixed-method ...