The Department of Environmental & Geographical Science

...furthering our knowledge, understanding and management of the interactions between humans and their social, biological and physical life-support systems

Recent Publications

Edited Books

Cartwright, A, Oelofse, G, Parnell, S, Ward, S. (eds) 2012. Climate change at the city scale: impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon.
Frayne, B, Moser, C, Ziervogel, G (eds) 2012. Climate change, assets and food security in Southern African cities, Earthscan, Abingdon, Oxon.
Holmes, P. and Meadows, M (eds) 2012. Southern African Geomorphology: recent trends and new directions, Sun Press, Bloemfontein.

Journal Articles

Abiodun, B., Adeyewa, Z., Oguntunde, P., Salami, A. and Ajayi, V. 2012 Modeling the impacts of reforestation on future climate in West Africa. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 110: 77-96.
Anderson, P. and O'Farrell, P. 2012 An ecological view of the history of the City of Cape Town. Ecology and Society 17(3): 28.
Anderson, PML, Elmqvist, T 2012, Urban ecological and social-ecological research in the City of Cape Town: Insights emerging from an urban ecology city lab, Ecology and Society, 17 (4): 23
Baleta, H. and McDonnell, R. 2012 Water quality standards or carbon reduction: is there a balance? Area 44(2): 217-225.
Battersby-Lennard, J. 2012 Beyond the food desert: finding ways to speak about urban food security in South Africa. Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography 94(2): 141-159.
Burrough, S., Thomas, D., Bailey, R. and Davies, L. 2012 From landform to process: morphology and formation of lake-bed barchan dunes, Makgadikgadi, Botswana. Geomorphology 161/162: 1-14.
Chase, B, Scott, L, Meadows, M E, Gil-Romera, G, Boom, A, Carr, A, Reimer, P, Truc, L, Valsecchi, V. and Quick, L 2012, Rock hyrax middens: a palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands, Quaternary Science Reviews, 56, 107-125.
Daya, S, and Ramdeo, A.R. 2012 Self, others and objects in an 'alternative economy': personal narratives from the Heiveld Rooibos Cooperative, Geoforum, 43, 885-893.
Farrell, LAF, Hamann, R, and Mackres, EBM 2012, A clash of cultures (and lawyers): Anglo Platinum and mine-affected communities in Limpopo Province, South Africa, Resources Policy, 37, 194-204.
Favre, A, Hewitson, B C, Tadross, MA, Lennard, C, and Cerezo-Mota, R. 2012, Relationships between cut-off lows and the semiannual and southern oscillations, Climate Dynamics, 38, 1473-1487.
Halladay, K, Malhi, Y, and New, M 2012, Cloud frequency climatology at the Andes/Amazon transition: 1 Seasonal and diurnal cycles, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 117, 1-15.
Halladay, K, Malhi, Y, and New, M 2012, Cloud frequency climatology at the Andes/Amazon transition: 2.Trends and variability, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 117, 1-19.
Hewitson, B., Lennard, C., Nikulin, G. and Jones, C. 2012 CORDEX-Africa: a unique opportunity for science and capacity building. CLIVAR Exchanges 60(17): 6-7.
Meadows, M E 2012, Quaternary environments: Going forward, looking backwards?, Progress in Physical Geography, 36(4), 539-547.
Meadows, M E 2012, The doctoral degree in geography: A South African perspective, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 36(1), 49-55.
Mwalukomo, H and Patel, Z 2012, Chieftaincy and democratic local governance in rural South Africa: Natural resources management in QwaQwa, Development Southern Africa, 29(2), 259-272.
O'Farrell, P, Anderson, PML, Le Maitre, D, and Holmes, P 2012, Insights and opportunities offered by a rapid ecosystem service assessment in promoting a conservation agenda in an urban biodiversity hotspot, Ecology and Society, 17:27(3), 1-14.
Oguntunde, P, Abiodun, BJ, and Lischeid, G 2012, Spatial and temporal temperature trends in Nigeria, 1901-2000, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 118, 95-105.
Parnell, S. and Robinson, J. 2012 (Re)Theorizing cities from the global south: Looking beyond neoliberalism. Urban Geography 33(4): 593-617.
Rahiz, M, and New, M 2012, Spatial coherence of meteorological droughts in the UK since 1914, AREA, 44(4), 400-410.
Ramutsindela, M. and Noe, C 2012, Scalar thickening: wildlife management areas and conservation scales in southeast Tanzania. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 33, 137-151
Siebrits, R 2012, Swimming pools and intra-city climates: influences on residential water consumption in Cape Town, Water SA, 38(1), 133-144.
Smit, W, Parnell, S 2012, Urban sustainability and human health: an African perspective, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 443-450.
Stager, J, Mayewski, P, White, J, Chase, B, Neumann, F, Meadows, M E, King, C, Dixon, D 2012, Precipitation variability in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa during the last 1400yr linked to the austral westerlies, Climate of the Past, 8, 877-887.
Thomas, DSG, and Burrough, S 2012, Interpreting geoproxies of late quaternary climate change in African drylands: implications for understanding environmental change and early human behaviour, Quaternary International, 253, 5-17.
Thomas, DSG, Burrough, S, and Parker, A 2012, Extreme events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa? The case for variability, not catastrophic drought, Journal of Quaternary Science, 27(1), 7-12.
van Niekerk, J, and Wynberg, R P 2012, The trade in Pelargonium sidoides: rural livelihood relief or bounty for the 'bio-buccaneers'?, Development Southern Africa, 29(4), 530-547.
Milandri, S G Winter, KJ Chimphango, SBM Armitage, NP Mbui, DN Jackson, GE and Liebau, V. 2012 The performance of plant species in removing nutrients from stormwater in biofiltration systems in Cape Town. Water SA 38(5): 655-662

Chapters in Books

Battersby-Lennard, J. 2012 Urban food security and climate change: a system of flows. In: Frayne, B., Moser, C. and Ziervogel, G. (eds) Climate change, assets and food security in Southern African cities. Oxon: Earthscan, 36-56.
Battersby-Lennard, J. 2012 Size matters: land restitution in Knysna. In: Donaldson, R. and Marais, L. (eds) Small town geographies in Africa: experiences from South Africa and elsewhere. New York: Nova Science, 311-326.
Cartwright, A, Oelofse, G, Parnell, S, and Ward, S 2012 Emerging lessons from the climate change think tank. In: Cartwright, A, Oelofse, G, Parnell, S, Ward, S. (eds) Climate change at the city scale: impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 1-8.
Cartwright, A, Parnell, S, and Oelofse, G 2012, Climate at the city scale: the Cape Town climate think tank. In: Cartwright, A, Oelofse, G, Parnell, S, Ward, S (eds) Climate change at the city scale: impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 263-270.
Eckardt, F, Barker, C, and Meadows, M E 2012, Landscape inventories and remote sensing. In: Holmes, P. and Meadows, M (eds) Southern African Geomorphology: recent trends and new directions, Sun Press, Bloemfontein, 373-399.
Frayne, B, Moser, C, and Ziervogel, G 2012, Understanding the terrain: the climate change, assets and food security nexus in Southern African cities. In: Climate change, assets and food security in Southern African cities, Earthscan, Abingdon, Oxon, 1-34.
Frayne, B, Moser, C, and Ziervogel, G 2012, Constructing the climate change-asset adaptation-food security nexus for pro-poor urban development. In: Frayne, B, Moser, C, Ziervogel, G (eds) Climate change, assets and food security in Southern African cities, Earthscan, Abingdon, Oxon, 186-197.
Hagell, Ann; Curtis, Sarah; Daya, Shari; Khatib, Yasmin;Pain, Rachel; Rothon, Catherine; Stansfeld, Stephen and Fuller, Sara (2012) Some thoughts on the broader context: neighbourhoods and peers. Hagell, A. (ed) Changing Adolescence: Social trends and mental health. Bristol: Policy Press. 151-164.
Harris, R, Luger, S, Sutherland, C, and Tadross, MA 2012 Potential impact of climate change on coastal flooding: a case study of the Salt River, Cape Town. . In: Cartwright, A, Oelofse, G, Parnell, S, Ward, S. (eds) Climate change at the city scale: impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 38-72.
Harris, R, and Parnell, S 2012, The turning point in urban policy for British Colonial Africa, 1939-1945. In: Fassil Demissie (ed) Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa: intertwined and contested histories, Ashgate, Surrey, 127-151.
McEwan, C and Daya, S. 2012 Geography, culture and global change. In: Daniels, P., Bradshaw, M., Shaw, D. and Sidaway, J. (eds) Human Geography, Issues for the 21st Century. London: Pearson, 272-287.
Meadows, M E 2012 Landscapes and environmental change. In: Holmes, P. and Meadows, M (eds) Southern African Geomorphology: recent trends and new directions, Sun Press, Bloemfontein, 331-350.
Nash, D and Meadows, M E 2012: Africa. In: Nash, D and Metcalfe, SE. (eds): Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics. Wiley, London, 79-150.
Tadross, MA, Taylor, A, and Johnston, P A 2012, Understanding Cape Town's climate. In: Cartwright, A, Oelofse, G, Parnell, S, Ward, S. (eds) Climate change at the city scale: impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 9-20.
Ziervogel, G, and Parnell, S 2012 South African coastal cities: governance responses to climate change adaptation. In: Cartwright, A, Oelofse, G, Parnell, S, Ward, S. (eds) Climate change at the city scale: impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 223-243.