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Dr Bianca Currie
Leader & Manco member
PhD (Nelson Mandela University)
Current project involvement
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Participative mapping and comparison of cultural ecosystem services (CES) that flow from a neighbouring national park and protected environment.
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Exploring the value stakeholders hold of the presence of free roaming elephants in the Knysna forest.
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Exploring the possible changes of 1st years students’ attitudes, behaviour, knowledge and beliefs in the School of Natural Resource Management at Nelson Mandela University.
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Understanding crop raiding baboon patterns and farmer perceptions of deterrent methods in Waboomskraal Herold and George agricultural areas in the Western Cape, South Africa.
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Coastal living of the future: Garden Route 2050.
Research interests:
Social ecological systems, social learning, public participation and stakeholder engagement, adaptive co-management, eco-system services. Human wildlife conflict.
Contact details: bianca.currie@mandela.ac.za
Find me on Linked In…
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Professor Christo Fabricius
Professor Emeritus
PhD (Cape Town)
Current Projects:
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Communities of practice, adaptive co-management and social-ecological transformation in the Garden Route
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Vulnerability, social learning and mal-adaptations to climate change
Research interests:
Resilience, transformations and adaptive co-management in disorderly social-ecological systems
Contact details: christo.fabricius@mandela.ac.za
Find me on Google Scholar… or Linked In…
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Adjunct Professor Dirk Roux
Research Associate, Adjunct Professor & Manco member
PhD (UJ)
Research Interests:
Conservation of freshwater ecosystems, sharing the benefits derived from their services, and the role of Protected Areas in achieving this, processes of adaptive management, cooperation and trans disciplinary learning.
Contact details: dirk.roux@sanparks.org
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Professor Janine Adams
Manco member, Professor for Botany Department & Deputy Director of CMR (Institute of Coastal and Marine Research).
PhD (UPE)
Current Projects & Research interests:
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Conservation and managemnt of estuaries (including environmental flow requirements, ecological health & importance indices).
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Blue carbon ecosystems and responses to climate change (salt marsh, magroves, seagrasses).
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Ecophysiology of estuarine macrophytes.
Contact Details: janine.adams@mandela.ac.za
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Professor Lyn Snodgrass
Department of Political and Conflict Studies
DPhil (Nelson Mandela University)
Current Projects:
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Trans-disciplinary research projects that interrogate deep-rooted, intractable conflict with an emphasis on Africa.
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Current research focus is the role of collective emotion, communal memory and narrative in the manifestations of violence in post-conflict societies and communities.
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Conflict resolution interventions and facilitation include conflict management systems design, conflict analysis and ‘mapping’, negotiation and mediation for inter alia civil society, government and non-governmental organisations and business.
Contact Details: lyn.snodgrass@mandela.ac.za
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Luzanne Visagie
SRU Administrative Coordinator
BA Hons Psychology (Nelson Mandela University)
Contact details: Luzanne.Visagie@mandela.ac.za
Tel: (044) 801 5127
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Jeanette Pauw
Statistician
MSc (UNISA)
Contact details: jeanette.pauw@mandela.ac.za
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Dr Peter Novellie
Research Associate
DSc (Pretoria)
Research interests:
Adaptive management and adaptive governance of social-ecological systems, with particular reference to governance of wildlife conservation in South Africa; the impact of grazing on biodiversity and spatial heterogeneity.
Contact details: novellie@netactive.co.za
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Professor Robert Fincham
Research Associate
PhD (Rhodes)
Research interests:
Landscape scale appreciation of African landscapes; Monitoring & Evaluation of development initiatives & food security.
Contact details: Fincham@ukzn.ac.za
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Adjunct Professor Hervé Fritz
Research Associate, Adjunct Professor
PhD in Ecology (UPMC Paris)
Current Projects:
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Coupling behavioral and community ecology to understand the role of trophic relationships in the functioning of conservation orientated socio-ecological systems
Research interests:
Wildlife management; the interface between theoretical and applied sciences; social-ecological system dynamics.
Institutional websites:
Contact details: hrv.fritz@gmail.com
Find me on Research Gate and Google Scholar.
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Dr Jeanne Nel
Research Associate
PhD (Cape Town)
Current Projects:
Research interests:
Water management and policy within the fields of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing and sustainability science.
Contact details: jnel4water@gmail.com
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Dr James Dabrowski
Research Associate
PhD (UCT)
Research interests:
Ecological Risk Assessment, Aquatic Ecology, Water Quality, Ecotoxicology, Geographical Information Systems.
Contact Details: james@confluent.co.za
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Dr Jackie Dabrowski
Research Associate
PhD Veterinary Science (Onderstepoort, University of Pretoria)
Research interest:
Freshwater ecology, aquatic food webs, eutrophication, water quality, drought, ephemeral waterbodies, biodiversity, fish kill diagnosis and fish health, mine rehabilitation.
Contact details:
Tel: 083 2563159
Email: Jackie@confluent.co.za
Find me on LinkedIn , Website: www.confluent.co.za or find us on Facebook
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Dr Karin Badenhorst
Research Associate
PhD (University of Johannesburg)
Research Interests:
Alternative governance mechanisms to enable sustainable transformation in the socio-economic-ecological nexus; agri-cultural and agri-processing value chains, with the aim of specifically benefiting socio-economically and ecologically vulnerable communities;exploring new economic pathways and opportunities created by the rapidly growing Green Economy
Contact details: karinb@iafrica.com
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Dr Jaco Barendse
Research Associate
PhD
Research Interests:
Sustainable social-ecological systems; natural resource management, especially fisheries; marine policy development; biodiversity conservation. Specific topics of interest include use of historic ecological data, shifting baselines, stewardship, invasive species management, risks and opportunities in seafood value chains, and mechanisms that enable effective knowledge transfer, fisheries capacity building in the Global South, small scale fisheries environmental improvements and certification.
Contact details:
Email: jaco.barendse@gmail.com
Find me on ResearchGate or Google Scholar or ORCID
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Dr Ernest Dube
School of Natural Resource Management
PhD (University of Fort Hare)
Current projects: Manageing soil-vorne diseases in conservation agriculture.
Research interests:
Conservation agriculture, Sustainable soil management and Plant production.
Contact details: Ernestd@mandela.ac.za
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Dr Chloé Guerbois
Post-doctoral fellow
PhD in Ecology (MNHN Paris)
My current projects focus on theoretical and applied interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of social-ecological systems including protected areas in Southern Africa:
Host: Prof Christo Fabricius
Research interests:
Complex systems, protected areas, natural resources, biodiversity conservation, human-wildlife coexistence, vulnerability transfers, indigenous knowledge, ecosystem services, value systems, connectedness.
Study areas: Garden Route, Hwange National Park, Niassa Game Reserve
Contact details: Chloe.Guerbois@mandela.ac.za
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Tatenda Mapeto
Doctoral student
Title of current project:
Mater balance processes in indigenous and introduced tree production systems.
Study area: Southern Cape region.
Promoters: Prof Jos Louw, Dr Mark Gush and Dr Richard Bugan
Contact details: tatenda.mapeto@mandela.ac.za
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Current Masunungure
Doctoral student
Title of project: Decision support system to prioritise the management of woody invasive alien plants.
Study area: Garden Route Biosphere Reserve
Promotor: Prof Christo Fabricius and Dr Tineke Kraaij
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Samantha Mc Culloch
Doctoral student
Title of project: Promoting systemic and adaptive governance in conservation: a national protected area expansion project
Study area: Associated G.E.F 5 projects in Western Cape, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape
Promotors: Peter Novellie, Dirk Roux and Bianca Currie
Contact details: Samantha.mcculloch@mandela.ac.za
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Zanele Hartmann
Doctoral student
Title of project: Social-ecological systems approaches to integrated water management: The Swartkops Estuary as a laboratory
Aims and Objectives:
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describe the current management system of the estuary;
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assess the views of local stakeholders, and authorities (policy makers ) policy implementers about the management system;
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evaluate the consequences, for human well-being and ecosystem services, of the current management system;
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and co-develop a novel, transformative management system with stakeholders;
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and Evaluate its legitimacy acceptability and practicability.
Study Area: Swartkops Estuary, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Duration of project: 2017 - 2021
Promoters: Prof Christo Fabricius and Dr Bernadette Snow
Contact details: s197486860@mandela.ac.za and Zanele.hartmann@gmail.com
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