Research & Project Outputs

Mark Swilling - Growth, Resource Use and Decoupling: Towards a 'Green New Deal' for South Africa? ECSECC Working Papers Series 14. East London: ECSECC.

Cape Town Central City Provincial Government Regeneration Initiative. Report commissioned by the Western Cape Provincial Government on how Cape Town's CBD can be regenerated, including a sustainability perspective. Co-authored by  CHEC (including Mark Swilling), Makeka Design Laboratory, Urban Genesis and City Think Space.

This paper will be delivered at conferences in Copenhagen and Brisbane taking place in August and September 2012 respectively. Building on the core arguments developed in his book co-authored with Eve Annecke entitled Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World, this paper examines storlines of the future developed from various influential perspectives. Using the Multi-Level Perspective, Mark Swilling elaborates and extends his conception of transition to a more sustainable world.

Philip Fourie help project manage the implementation of aspects of the housing development at Lyneodch. This experience provides the basis for this article in a journal on operations research.

Dr. Camaren Peter and Prof Mark Swilling. 2012. Sustainable, Resource Efficient Cities - Making It Happen! This report was commissioned by UNEP based on a paper prepared for UNEP presented at a Conference in South Korea in 2011. This Report was launched at the Rio + 20 Conference that took place in June 2011.

Chapters:

Chapter 1: Urbanisation in the 21st century - trends and pressures

Chapter 2: City infrastructures: sustainability challenges and choices

Chapter 3: How cities can transition to sustainable, resource efficient growth

Swilling, M., Van Breda, J. and Van Zyl, A. - Contextualising social giving: an analysis of state fiscal expenditure and poverty in South Africa, 1994-2004. In Habib, A. (ed.), Social Giving in South Africa, HSRC Press, 2008. This paper analyses the patterns of fiscal expenditure for the period 1994-2004 and contests the notion that fiscal spending was cut as part of a wider commitment to neo-liberal policies.

The present study was undertaken at the request of South’s Africa Department of Environmental Affairs to assess potential opportunities and options to promote a green economy, with a focus on key economic sectors set out by South Africa’s National Development Plan – Vision 2030. Commissioned by UNEP, the assessment was led by Stellenbosch University and the Sustainability Institute of South Africa, in cooperation with the Millennium Institute. It presents a modelling exercise that compares a scenario of investments directed to “business-as-usual” (BAU) with scenarios of investments allocated to four critical sectors for a transition to a green economy in South Africa, namely: natural resource management, agriculture, transport and energy.