MPhil in Environment, Society and Sustainability

And

African Climate Development Initiative Masters

 

Proposal Presentations

 

Friday 31 May * Venue: Room 2.27

 

 

Chair: Zarina Patel 

In attendance:  Richard Hill

 13:00 am    Sibongile Lenneiye (Godfrey Tawodzera)

                   Evergreen agriculture and food security in Southern Africa

 13:40 am    Jesse Luttik (Jane Battersby-Lennard)

                   Urban food security: Lessons from the Belo Horizonte Food Security Program

 14:00 pm    Brian Schmitt (Mike Allsop and UCT co-supervisor)

                   Key factors in development of bee-keeping as a sustainable poverty alleviation initiative in the Western Cape

 14:20 pm    Shakirudeen Lawal (Babatunde Abiodun)

                   An assessment of the carbon storage potential of forestation in Southern Africa

 

Monday 3 June May *    Venue: Room 2.27

 

Chair: Mark New

In attendance:  Neil MacKellar and Peter Johnston

 10:00 am    Rowan Robertson (Howard Pierce)

 10:20 am    Akeel Hajat (Mark New)

                    Investigating the climate information needs of the agricultural sector in Malawi: An adaptation analysis

 10:40 am    Dean Harrison (Babatunde Abiodun & Pippin Anderson)

 11:00 am    Beth Mackay (Phoebe Barnard)

                   Living on the edge:  Do human settlements mitigate the impacts of climate change on urban-edge fynbos birds?

 11:20 am    Kobus Kellerman (Ed February & Jasper Slingsby)

  

Tuesday 4 June    *    Venue: Room 2.27

 

Chair:  Sue Parnell

In attendance:  Frank Matose and Maano Ramutsindela

 9:00 am      Belinda Huddy (Shari Daya)

 9:20 am      Nicholas Wiid (Sue Parnell)

                   Utopian thinking and sustainable development decision making in the City of Cape Town: A critical analysis of the WesCape Development concept, plan and process

 9:40 am      Christopher Millson (Andrew Marquad)

                   A review of policy support for residential rooftop solar photovoltaic systems: Implications for South Africa

 

10:00 am    Sarah Reckson (Amos Madhlopa)

                   Diffusion models for off-grid rural solar electricity in the Eastern Cape

 

11:00 – 11:30 BREAK

 

Chair:  Merle Sowman

In attendance:  Serge Raemaekers and Lorena Pasquini

 11:30 am    Liz Mcdaid (Merle Sowman)

                   Mapping the process of community participation in small scale fisheries policy in the Eastern Cape

 11:50 pm    Stephanie Joos-vanderwalle (Rachel Wynberg)

 12:10 pm    Anna James (Holle Wlokas)

Exploring stakeholder perceptions of the contribution of skills development to local livelihoods in the Kuyasa Solar Water Heater (SWH) installation project.