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Conference Presentations

2021 - CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND NON PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

ARUA Water Centre of Excellence (2021) Digital Storytelling of African Water Challenges: Links to Human Health and Well-being, CoE workshop session, Third ARUA Biennial Conference, 17-19 November 2021, Online.

Fry A, Libala N, Ralekhetla M, Weaver M, Mti N, Ntshangase, Mtati N and Palmer CG (2021) Learning to listen and speak together, incremental steps to enabling more meaningful participatory land and water governance in the Tsitsa River Catchment, Eastern Cape. Preliminary findings presented at the Environmental Education Association of South Africa’s 39th International Online Conference, 21-24 June 2021.

Fry A and Weaver M (2021) Building Capabilities for Adaptive and Systemic Governance of Ecological Infrastructure. Policy recommendations presented as part of the National Environmental Skills Summit, 8-10 September 2021. NRF Social Learning & Sustainability Development CoP Policy Engagement Colloquium.

Gusha B & Palmer AR (2021) Deriving an evidence-based estimate of livestock water productivity in communal rangelands of the north Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The 33rd Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Animal Science. Online and Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Australia.

Gusha B and Palmer AR (2021) Estimating the productivity of communally-managed, unimproved rangelands of north Eastern Cape, South Africa. Twenty65 Annual Conference. Online, Hosted by United Kingdom.

Gusha B and Palmer AR (2021) Describing cattle grazing distribution in communal rangelands of the Eastern Cape, South Africa: Towards improving livestock rangeland use. Joint International grasslands and rangeland congress hosted by Nairobi, Kenya to be held Virtually

Mantel SK (2021) Maps can bridge gaps between citizens, scientists and policymakers. The Conversation, May 20, 2021 https://theconversation.com/maps-can-bridge-gaps-between-citizens-scientists-and-policymakers -160374

Mantel, SK (2021) River Connections. Video created during Digital Storytelling Course offered by Rhodes University Community Engagement, April 2021. https://youtu.be/0Z3CvxTk_RQ

Mantel SK, Tanner J and Xoxo S (2021) Ecological infrastructure (EI) as a sustainable solution for water security: Research from South Africa. Online Twenty65 Conference, Sheffield University, 15-18 March 2021.

Palmer AR, Smart K, Weideman C and Palmer CG (2021) Primary production and water use of semi-arid rangelands in the Eastern Cape: results from flux towers in the Great Fish Thicket, Bisho Thornveld and Bedford Dry Grassland. Annual Congress 56, Grassland Society of Southern Africa, 26-29 July 2021.

Palmer CG (2021) The road less travelled: A Transdisciplinary Journey: Grappling with personal dimensions, International Transdisciplinary Conference, 13-16 September 2021.

Palmer CG, Porroche-Escudero A and Gusha B (2021) Not such strange bedfellows: public involvement meets applied water resources science to inform better practice. TWENTY65 Online Conference 16th, 17th & 18th March 2021.

Rosenberg E, Weaver MJT, Madiba M and Chanyau L. Boundary Breakers: Case study of a multi-level online course in the environmental science-social-learning space. Round Table. 39th Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA) International Online Conference 21 – 24 June 2021. Rethinking Education for Sustainability in an Era of Uncertainty: Opportunities and Challenges.

Tanner J, Smith C, Glenday J and Palmer T (2021) The Hydrology of Palmiet Wetlands in the Krom River. National Wetlands Indaba, virtual event (https://indaba.org.za/), 20-21 October 2021.

Vos H, Fister W, Eckardt F, Palmer AR and Kuhn NJ (2021) Crust formation on sandy savanna cropland soils and their potential to reduce dust emissions. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU21-1041.

Weaver MJT, Ralekhetla M, Mtati N and Gusha B. Lessons from facilitating transformative learning in a rural communally-owned landscape context: The Tsitsa Project Case Study. Round Table. 39th Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA) International Online Conference 21 – 24 June 2021. Rethinking Education for Sustainability in an Era of Uncertainty: Opportunities and Challenges.

Weaver MJT. Breaching The Gap: Translating Envisioning Talk To Commissive Talk And Action In Multi-Level Water Governance Arrangements. 6th ISCAR Congress, 30th July – 7th August 2021. Natal, Brazil (online).

Weaver MJT. Value Creation Research experiences from two Case studies: An online course in the environmental science-social-learning space; and Application of the Adaptive Systemic Approach. Workshop 1: Social Learning Strategy in Practice to Unlock Investment in Ecological Infrastructure: a tool for monitoring value-creation in networks 18th of August 2021. WRC 50 Years – A Catalyst to Building South Africa’s Water Economy.

Weaver MJT, Cockburn J, Mtati N and Palmer CG. Transformative change for sustainable and just landscape management in rural South Africa: Exploring personal vignettes through cross-scale analysis in the Tsitsa Project. Transformation & Transdisciplinarity in Africa: Grappling with personal dimensions, International Transdisciplinary Conference, 13- 16 September 2021.

Xoxo BS (2021) More droughts? Okay, lets go back to basics! MSc thesis presented at the Second Rhodes University Three-Minute Thesis Competition, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvxU9FAyL0I&ab_channel=CentreForPostgraduateStudies, 29 September 2021.

 

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