SA-YSSP Participants 2014/15
1. Extract of Africa: Towards the equitable and ecologically-sound governance of mining and drilling
Emmanuel Vellem
Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, South Africa
Project Title: Understanding Acid Mine Drainage (AMD), Salinity, Catchment System
Maria Rivera
Department of Geography, University of Maryland, USA
Project Title: Discovering the opportunity costs of competing land uses in the Virunga National Park to understand whether a REDD conservation concession could be financially sustainable in the long term and supplant extractive activities with more sustainable livelihoods
2. Social acceptance of land use requirements for renewable energy in South Africa: Critical considerations
Decide Mabumbo
Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Project Title: Political, Economic, Social and Ecological Implications of Large Scale Biofuel Investments in South Africa.
Elvis Nkoana
Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Project Title: Climate change adaptation and sustainable development: an action research approach in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
3. Sustainable cities – Cities as forces for good in the environment
Tejas Rawal
Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, Uttrakhand State, India
Project Title: Planning for Sustainable Transportation System in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu,
India
Serge Kubanza
School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Project Title: Urban Environmental Problems: Social and Environmental Injustice in Solid Waste Management in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo
4. (GAINS) Model for Integrated Local and Regional Air Quality and Climate Modelling in Southern Africa
Carmen Klausbruckner
Faculty of Law, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Project Title: Southern Africa's energy policies including the legal framework
in the field of local and regional air quality
Lucas Henneman
Department of Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Project Title: Impacts of Emission Changes on Air Quality and Acute Health Effects in the Southeast
5. Mitigation of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
Leonard Azimoh
School of Business, Society and Engineering, Malardalen University, Sweden
Project Title: Off-Grid energy: An assessment of the sustainability and development impact of South African rural electrification
Shingirirai Mutanga
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Project Title: Modelling an effective energy mix for developing economics using spatial system dynamics: The case of Biofuels in the SADC Region
Munsu Lee
Department of Energy Science
Sungkyunkwan University/Korea Rural Republic of Korea
Project Title: Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multi-dimensional approach
7. Dynamical Systems in Ecology: Models, Analysis and Simulations
Aleksandra Falkiewicz
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Project Title: Asymptotic Behaviour of Dynamical Systems on Complex Networks
Apollinaire Ndodo
Centre of Doctoral Formation in Mathematics and Computer Sciences University Of Kinshasa, Republic of Congo
Project Title: Global analysis of African human Trypanosoma: Application to D.R. Congo case
8. Modelling mechanisms influencing above- and below-ground diversity and productivity in plant communities
Anette Alleman
Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Project Title: The effect of herbicide formulations and soybean genotype on the relationship between beneficial organisms and root pathogens
Hung-Yu Chaun
Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Project Title: The influence of sorghum root physiology on rhizosphere interactions and their effect on incidence of root disease
Marcele Vermuelen
Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Project Title: Biotic and abiotic interactions of above and below ground parts of an allelopathic plant, using Amaranthus cruentus as a model
9. Resilience Measures in Ecosystems and Socio-Economic Networks
Linlin Xia
School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, China
Project Title: City ecological design: based on the spatial distribution of carbon metabolism network
Arnab Banerjee
Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, India
Project Title: Variation in Certain Physico-Chemical factors and plant on dynamics of a reservoir: A modelling approach
10. Stability and Complexity of Adaptive Ecological
Alan de Barros
Applied Ecology – Conservation Biology, Forestry Department University of Sao Paulo -USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project Title: Using probabilistic models derived from jaguar movements to enhance conservation of endangered populations in the Atlantic Forest
Emmanuel Sweke
Marine Bioresource and Environmental Science/Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Project Title: Social-Ecological Sudies to Sustain Local Fisheries in the North-Eastern Hokkaido, Japan
11. Water futures and solutions: Climate change and water security in Africa
Alois Katiti
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
Project Title: Satellite-based estimation of Evapotranspiration in the Green Scheme Irrigation (Projects) of Namibia
Sifan Koriche
Water Resource and Environmental Engineering, Jimma University, Ethiopia
Project Title: Climate Change Impact on Fresh water
Shelly Borga
Department of Energy & Environment, TERI University, India
Project Title: India water-energy-material nexus: physical, economic and policy implications
12. Water futures and solutions: Developing sustained solutions to improve urban water security in South Africa
Mayank Prakash
Department of Population Policies and Programmes, International Institute for Population Science, Mumbai, India
Project Title: A study of Water-Sanitation-Hygiene, related morbidity and its Socio-economic Impact on the Slum Dwellers of Mumbai
Potia Mokoena
Department of Earth Science, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Project Title: Structural Control of Groundwater flow regimes and groundwater geochemistry in the Bredasdorp region of western cape province
13. Demographic differential vulnerability to environmental change and climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa
Martin Flatoe
Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
Project Title: Female-headed households, land ownership, and vulnerability
to climate change in South Africa
Mantsebo Letsie
School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Project Title: Vulnerability to climate change and variability on crop yields and implications on household welfare in Lesotho
14. Migration Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Ganzamungu Zihindula
School of Applied Human Sciences, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Project Title: Access to Health care Services by Refugees in South Africa: A case study of the Congolese community living in the city of Durban
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