Andrea Membretti (PhD in Sociology) is Assistant Professor of Territorial Sociology at the University of Pavia (Italy) and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Afromontane Research Unit (South Africa). He is also Research Affiliate at the Department of Cultures, Politics & Society of the University of Turin (Italy), where he leads a national project on new peopling in the Alps. His main field of research is migration and mobility to/from mountain and remote regions, in relationship to sustainable development.
Susan Jean Taylor (PhD) is a development consultant with experience in researching, writing and lecturing about climate change and social/development issues in South Africa and Africa. She has worked in the research sector doing crop biotechnology, in nature conservation and in the NGO sector as a climate change activist, and then in the academic sector as a science writer. Her current interest is cities and climate change adaptation.Jess L. Delves is a researcher at Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS), a joint research programme of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (Germany) and Eurac Research (Italy). Her research takes a political ecology perspective in investigating land degradation and water management in Lesotho and South Africa.
Introduction: the invention of an African mountain town
by the editors
1. The rise and fall of a homeland capital
Lochner Marais
2. Urban sustainable development in the Global South. A resilience-based approach
Marco Morandotti
3. Phuthaditjhaba communities - the future sustainable city
Louw van Biljon
4. Human settlement growth and socio-economic development: a geographical analysis
Okello, TW., Adelabu, SA., Onaolapo TF.
5. Internal and international migration in a mountain border town
Andrea Membretti6. Virtual disclosures and self-emancipations: the female body and self-identity on online platforms
Loice S Nzombe, Rodwell Makombe & Oliver Nyambi
7. Socio-economic resilience in a mountain community: the role of cultural value orientations
Mudzingiri, C., Guvuriro, S. & Gomo, C.
8. Education for sustainable development in local schools through preservice teacher preparation: a need for practice models
Maria Tsakeni
9. Surviving on the margin of a collapsing social-ecological system: mountain livelihood sustainability in rural communities
Mukwada, G., Mutana S., Zondo, SA., & Msimanga, L.10. Harnessing livelihood trade-offs and synergies in informal settlements: Agricultural Development research in the era of Sustainable Development Goals
Neo Mathinya
11. The feasibility of sustainably creating an urban tree canopy as a climate change adaptation measure
Susan Jean Taylor
12. Sustainable Development Goals and small-town tourism in the Drakensberg region. A discourse analysis of literature
Mutana S. & Mukwada G.
13. The role of commons and of commoning practices with respect to access to the land and its administration
Ioanni Del Sante14. Transforming Agro-Social Development
Cias T. Tsotetsi & Bunmi I. Omodan
15. Analysis of project initiatives aimed at achieving sustainable developmentNomcebo Dlamini & Jesse Lutabingwa
16. Can insect pollination ameliorate soil fertility during soybean production under marginalized farming system?
Adelabu Dolapo Bola, Emile Bredenhand & Johan Van Niekerk
17. Geophagia, mineral deficiency and popular education
Van Onselen18. Energy and transport (to be confirmed)
19. The use and usefulness of spatial biodiversity plans for local application towards the Sustainable Development Goals
Falko Buschke, Aliza le Roux, Toka Mosikidi & Lefu Mofokeng
20. Dependence on the highlands for water and climate change nexus
Ntebohiseng Sekhele
21. Progress in water and sanitation access and management strategies
M. Mamera, J.J. van Tol & M.P. Aghoghovwia
22. Stakeholders' perspectives on Tourism
Norman Mokoena
23. Conclusion
24. Bibliography