The Sustainability Challenge for Southern Africa

As the product of a year-long collaboration by the Southern African Environment Team (Global Security Fellows Initiative, Cambridge U.), these 13 essays nudge environmental sustainability from goodwill and models of integration to politically viable foundation policies. These policy-oriented analyses challenge more conventional thinking, in that regional and global factors are considered together with domestic pressures and constraints. The final team-authored chapter underscores sustainable development as a process: participatory, incremental, and interactive (i.e. between co-evolving socioeconomic and environmental systems).

Jim Whitman is a member of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University, and Deputy Director of the Global Security Fellows Initiative, Cambridge University Nana Adande is Dean of Humanities of the School of Business at the Technikon Mangosuthu, Durban, South Africa Duncan Hay is Project Manager at the Institute of Natural Resources, Pietermaritzburg Meshack M. Khosa holds a PhD in human geography Duduzile G. Maseko works for the Human Resources Department of the Office of the Strategic Executive, City of Johannesburg Christopher Mupimpila holds a doctorate in economics Ammon Mutembwa works from the Office of the President of Zimbabwe Logan Rangasamy works for the European Union Albert S. van Jaarsveld is an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria