Environmental Security Resources
Podcast of first Changing Lives seminar (Agricultural Practices), held in August 2010.
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Flooding Research Reports compiled by Suzall Timm and Laura Drivdal, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town provide information about climate change and flooding risks.
- Access the September-October 2010 report
- Access the August 2010 report
- Access the Flooding Observatory: Water in Cape Town report
- Access the Flooding Observatory: Climate Change and flooding relations report
- Access the Flooding Observatory: Adaptive co-management/collaborative governance and flooding/water management report
Environmental Research Reports compiled by Suzall Timm, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town.
A review of recent literature on wild law, solid waste management, responding to climate risk, green buildings and green criminology. Brief descriptions of the resources are provided as well as information regarding where the resource may be accessed.
- Access the August-September 2011 report
- Access the June-July 2011 report
- Access the April-May 2011 report
- Access the February-March 2011 report
- Access the October-November 2010 report
- Access the August-September 2010 report
- Access the June-July 2010 report
- Access the April-May 2010 report
- Access the January-March 2010 report
- Access the November-December 2009 report
- Access the October-November 2009 report
- Access the September 2009 report
- Access the August 2009 report
- Access the July 2009 report
- Access the May 2009 report
- Access the April 2009 report
Insurance and Climate Change Research Report compiled by Suzall Timm access here
Access information compiled by Suzall Timm about interesting journals and environmental websites
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"Tomorrow's Cities" video. Sustainable Energy Africa together with award-winning film-maker Luke Young has produced a compelling 15-minute documentary called “Tomorrow’s Cities”. The film, through the voice of a vibrant school child and exciting use of animation explores the urban development challenges facing our cities and proposes practical solutions toward the development of sustainable, equitable and low carbon urban futures. Tomorrow's Citiesis aimed at involving the community in creating a healthy living environment.
Project 90X2030 toolkits for cutting carbon.
Joe Slovo fire and rebuilding by re-blocking.
Liveable Streets. Aimed at involving the community in creating a healthy living environment.
Legal Brief Environmental News contains important information about relevant environmental issues in South Africa and Internationally.
SEA-SPAN (Southeast Asian Science-Policy Network) produces regular newsletters about environmental change and policy in Southeast Asia.
Sustainable Kramer Project report. The Sustainable Kramer Project is a joint project with the Law Faculty, & the Centre of Criminology which aims to transform the Kramer Law Building in which we are located into a carbon-neutral, sustainable building.Please read the report here.
Post Autistic Economies Review. Full text publications on "ecological economies" and a free subscription to the review.
The Bjerknes Centre is the largest climate research centre in the Nordic countries, with a focus on the natural science aspects of climate change. We are a a leading international centre for research on high-latitude climate change and a key provider of first-rate knowledge on climate change to policy makers, industry, and the general public.
ACCESS Africa Centre for Climate and Earth System Science: The focus of ACCESS is on climate related phenomena that range from the transient fluctuations in conditions on land and in the adjacent oceans, to future climate changes associated with global warming.
The Southern African-Nordic Centre is a partnership of higher education institutions from all the Nordic countries and southern Africa. Its primary aim is to promote multilateral research cooperation on matters of importance to the development of both regions.
The Sustainability Institute is a non-profit trust, founded in 1999. An international living and learning centre focussing on studies and experience in ecology, community and spirit. The Institute works in partnership with the School of Public Management and Planning, University of Stellenbosch.
The Earth System Governance Project is a core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and builds on the results of the former IHDP project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC). Earth system governance is defined in this project as the interrelated and increasingly integrated system of formal and informal rules, rule-making systems, and actor-networks at all levels of human society (from local to global) that are set up to steer societies towards preventing, mitigating, and adapting to global and local environmental change and, in particular, earth system transformation, within the normative context of sustainable development.
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