Browsing Research Articles (School of Public Leadership) by Title
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Accountability in the context of cooperative governance and local economic development (LED) in South African local government
(Megatrend University, 2021)Provided the tensions and challenges found in different types of governance systems for developing clear objectives, effective policy implementation strategies, as well as monitoring and reporting mechanisms aimed at ... -
Algorithmic decision-making and the law
(Department for E-Governance and Administration, Danube University Krems, 2020)The Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping the world we know dramatically and is characterised by a close interaction between the biological, digital and physical spheres. Digital technologies are impacting all facets ... -
Another look at economic approaches to environmental management and policy with reference to developments in South Africa
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)The wide acceptance of economic approaches to environmental management and policy, masks increasing heterogeneity in the field. This editorial addresses the question whether the economic approach is still warranted and ... -
Anti-corruption Agencies in South Africa and Brazil : trends and challenges
(African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)Corruption at all levels has become an everyday reality in South Africa and Brazil with dire consequences for both countries, leading to perpetration of social inequality. In both countries, the existing legislation and ... -
Assessing cooperative environmental governance systems : the cases of the Kogelberg Biosphere reserve and the Olifants-Doorn catchment Management Agency
(Unisa Press, 2008)Against a background of institutional fragmentation and lack of coordination among the respective role players, the notion of co-management of natural resources has emerged in many countries around the world as the most ... -
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 ... -
Chefs as change-makers from the kitchen : indigenous knowledge and traditional food as sustainability innovations
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Projections of a burgeoning population coupled with global environmental change offer an increasingly dire picture of the state of the world's food security in the not-too-distant future. But how can we transform the current ... -
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), ... -
Cooperative governance and local economic development in selected small towns : a case study of the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Peoples Friendship University of Russia, 2021)This article reports on a study based on cooperative governance and Local Economic Development (LED) in selected small towns in the Western Cape Province. The dearth of an integrative institutional framework to promote ... -
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. ... -
Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene
(2020-11)Global environmental change challenges humanity because of its broad scale, long-lasting, and potentially irreversible consequences. Key to an effective response is to use an appropriate scientific lens to peer through the ... -
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 ...
