Research & Project Outputs

With Blake Robinson from SI Projects as lead author, this was a chapter in the South African Cities Network 2011 Annual Report which included a major emphasis on sustainability. This is the first attempt to develop an overview of South Africa's major cities from a sustainable resource use perspective.

Compiled by Sonja Pithey for the Sustainability Institute, this report was commissioned by City of Cape Town and funded by UNDP. It provides a comprehensive overview of Cape Town's water and sanitation system.

Cape Town waste system report was commissioned by City of Cape Town and funded by United Nations Development Programme - compiled for the Sustainability Institute by Sally-Anne Engledow.

Overview and analysis of Cape Town's energy system commissioned by City of Cape Town and funded by United Nations Development Programme - compiled for the Sustainability Institute by Sustainable Energy Africa.

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.

Paper by Mark Swilling commissioned by the Isandla Institute for presentation at the Cape Town 2025 Conference, June 2005. Reviews the relationship between consumption, footprints, infrastructure planning and sustainable resource use in Cape Town.

This paper was commissioned by UNEP as a position paper for the Summit for the Urban Environment Accords, Gwangju, South Korea, 11-13 October, 2011.

Article by Mark Swilling and Eve Annecke that provides a descriptive overview of the Lynedoch EcoVillage Development, including vision, history, buildings, infrastructure and governance.