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Vision Statement: To contribute effectively to the integrated management of environmental resources in Africa through excellent learning, research, outreach and practice.
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3rd Year State of the Environment Reports for Grahamstown Future Scenarios for Sustainable Cities
CBNRM   The department is well known for its hands-on work with rural communities. Community engagement is truly one of our department's cornerstones.
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New staff appointment: Gladman Thondhlana Dr Gladman Thondhlana has been appointed as a new lecturer in the department on a three year contract. His appointment will be effective as soon as a work permit is issued. Dr Thondhlana recently graduated with a PhD in Environmental Science at Rhodes University, adding to his Masters in Environmental Policy & Planning from the University of Zimbabwe in 2006. His PhD was on valuation of natural resources used by the San and Mier communities of the southern Khalahari, in particular in and around the Kalagadi Transfrontier Park. Dr Thondlhana says that he is delighted to have this opportunity to join the department, both as an opportunity to develop his career as an academic, but also to be able to share his skills and knowledge with undergraduates and postgraduates and to contribute to the growth and development of the department as a whole. Gladman has been involved in tutoring of undergraduate students over the last few years and is eager to formalise this as an academic staff member. He was made a number of offers for post-doctoral position at several South African universities, but decided that a lectureship was a better option to develop understanding and experience in all components of being an academic. His appointment brings the complement of academic staff up to five, meaning that the department is no longer the smallest at Rhodes.
The Minister of Science & Technology, Ms Naledi Pandor, announced the results of the latest round of awards in the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) programme. 60 prestigious research chairs have been awarded, in open competition, across the South African university system. Five chairs have been awarded to Rhodes University. A key criterion for the award of a research chair is that the host university must provide a scholarly environment in which the chair and scholarship can flourish. The five new chairs take to ten the chairs that Rhodes now holds. Charlie Shackleton is one of the recipients of this prestigious award. He holds the chair in 'Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods'. The other four chairs at Rhodes are in ‘Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education;’ ‘Insects in Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystems;’ ‘Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction: Human and Social Dynamics,’ and ‘Marine Natural Products Research.’
Story by Sarah-Jane Bradfield. A team of eight staff and students from the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University will be jetting off to Durban in a few weeks to attend the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Since the UNFCCC began in 1995, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC have been meeting annually to assess progress in dealing with climate change.
RU Enviro Savvy? Schools Quiz On the 20th September the Honours class hosted the 4th Annual Schools Environmental Quiz. Four learners from Mary Waters High, Graeme College, St Andrews, Nombulelo High, DSG, Victoria Girls High and Kingswood participated. This fun evening began as spectators and contestants alike arrived to the timeless tune of “Captain Planet he’s our hero, gonna take pollution down to zero” and yes the first question pertained to this environmentally conscious cartoon from the 90’s. Although things started off light-hearted the questions in the first two rounds were tough and of the seven schools that participated, many were left guessing. Four schools made it to the final round where the questions became even tougher. A tense tiebreaker between DSG and Graeme College ended after Graeme College answered a sudden knock-out question about when and where the COP 17 conference was to be held this year. This resulted in 1st place being taken by Kingswood, 2nd place Graeme College, 3rd place DSG and 4th place Mary Waters High. Photo supplied by Graham College.
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2011 Thicket Forum Conference 2-3 Nov Thicket Forum Proceedings 2004
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There are
many people working on community and rural development
that are helping rural communities to empower themselves
through the sustainable use of their natural resources.
One of the ways to achieve this is through monitoring.
The CBNRM Monitoring toolkit gives you the tools to
monitor projects in your village and to evaluate whether
you are achieving your goals.
