Browsing Research Articles (School of Public Leadership) by Title
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The challenge of environmental governance : the case of mainstreaming biodiversity in productive landscapes, with specific reference to the Gouritz initiative in the Western Cape
(Unisa Press, 2012-03)South Africa boasts one of the world's richest and most diverse natural landscapes and is world-renowned for its biodiversity. The Cape Floristic Region, particularly, is the world's sixth and smallest floral kingdom and ... -
Challenges facing South Africa’s electricity sector’s integrated resource plan : a qualitative system dynamics approach
(Association of Southern African Schools and Departments of Public Administration and Management, 2018)National electricity plans are policy approaches that provide opportunities for integrated, goal-oriented electricity transition management. This article provides a critical reflection of the challenges that face the ... -
Christ-centred ethical behaviour and ecological crisis : what resources do the concepts of order in creation and eschatological hope offer?
(AOSIS, 2013-05-08)The ecological crisis, as well as a limited ethical response, forces a reflection on the transformative potential of Christian ethics on an idolatrous society largely shaped by a dominant economic culture. The aim of the ... -
A comparative analysis of the local economic development practices in South Africa and Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Local governments in both developing and developed countries are faced with many developmental challenges. This requires the development of strategies and mechanisms to address socio economic development ... -
A conceptual framework for energy technology sustainability assessment
(Elsevier, 2011-03)Technology assessment has changed in nature over the last four decades from an analytical tool for technology evaluation, which depends heavily on quantitative and qualitative modelling methodologies, into a strategic planning ... -
Conceptualizing household energy metabolism : a methodological contribution
(MDPI, 2019)Urban metabolism assessments enable the quantification of resource flows, which is useful for finding intervention points for sustainability. At a household level, energy metabolism assessments can reveal intervention ... -
Contextualising public protest : the case of Khayelitsha
(ASSADPAM, 2013-06)The upsurge in the number of public protests in most South African municipalities, including the City of Cape Town, continues unabated. While public protest is a demographic right, provided for in the Constitution (1996), ... -
The correlation between energy cost share, human, and economic development : using time series data from Australasia, Europe, North America, and the BRICS nations
(MDPI, 2018)This paper investigates how a change in a region’s energy cost share (ECS), a ratio of a region’s energy expenditure as a fraction of its gross domestic product (GDP), affects the region’s social and economic development. ... -
Corruption : consequences for Socio-economic Well-being in South Africa
(CSSALL Publishers, 2019)This paper begins with the hypothesis that high levels of corruption can self-perpetuate on occasions, as the phenomenon of corruption is perpetrated through all societal levels and sectors. The loss of ethical standards, ... -
Corruption and its repercussions on employment, poverty and inequality : Rwanda and South Africa compared
(Lifescience Global, 2019)Effective statecraft is founded on governance, planning and policy execution foundations that are historically derived and conditioned. In contemporary times, effective statecraft supposedly centres on ‘sustainable’ ... -
Corruption and the erosion of citizen trust in Brazil and South Africa
(African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)The exploration of public trust towards a democratic government has taken different forms throughout history because it is a multi-dimensional and complicated process determined by actions, inactions, political, social and ... -
Corruption in the health sector in South Africa and India.
(African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)The article is an integral part of a comprehensive comparative empirical study on corruption in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The article begins with the context and parameters of ... -
Creating enhanced capacity for Local Economic Development (LED) through collaborative governance in South Africa
(ARMG publishing, 2017)The complexities of the twenty-first century have paved way for the emergence and proliferation of cross boundary collaboration in the lexicon of localised and territorial development. Collaborative governance is increasingly ... -
Creating public value through collaborative environmental governance
(Administratio Publica, 2010-11)That collaborative management has become the central reality of public problem solving is nowhere better illustrated than in the field of environmental governance. Institutional innovations like collaborative environmental ... -
Creating transformative spaces for dialogue and action : reflecting on the experience of the Southern Africa Food Lab
(Resilience Alliance, 2018)Addressing food insecurity in South Africa requires innovative responses that fundamentally reconsider its causes, particularly because challenges facing the food system cut across issues, sectors, and scales. We discuss ... -
A critical evaluation of an employee health and wellness programme of the Department of Education : a case study of the Motheo District in the Free State Province
(The African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2013-09)The primary aim of the Employee Health and Wellness Programme (EHWP) is to make a positive contribution towards maximum employee productivitiy and effectiveness in the workplace. Various organisations have implemented the ... -
Designing for informal contexts : a case study of Enkanini sanitation intervention
(Chinese Institute of Design, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Increasing social agency in the design profession corresponds to the call for greater participation of science in solving complex social problems. We analyse the complex problem of informal urban sanitation ... -
Determinants of quality of shared sanitation facilities in informal settlements : case study of Kisumu, Kenya
(BioMed Central, 2017)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Shared facilities are not recognised as improved sanitation due to challenges of maintenance as they easily can be avenues for the spread of diseases. Thus there is need to evaluate the quality ... -
Energy scenarios for the Minas Gerais State in Brazil : an integrated modeling exercise using System Dynamics
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Developing medium- to long-term energy scenarios is a key to achieve goals of energy security and greenhouse gas emission reduction through the implementation of effective public policies. Methods: Despite ... -
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of collaboratives through education and learning in South Africa
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2014-12)ABSTRACT: It is clear that the environmental issues facing us today are prime manifestations of complex or “wicked” public problems and, as such, natural resource governance has to be approached from a complexity science ...
