Publications and Research Outputs
Although the full list of research outputs is available from my extended CV, below are as many pdfs of these research outputs that can be made available. Alternatively, a detailed listing with some full text attachments is available on Research Gate.
Dark, Dumb and Dangerous: Inside South Africa’s perfect (electrical) storm
Making Climate Capital Work
Report released 2 weeks ago in Davos as a side event at the World Economic Forum. Compiled by a joint team from the Centre for Sustainability Transitions and the Blended Finance Task Team.
To download the report: Making+Climate+Capital+Work+-+FINAL+REPORT
Based on the report, herewith a talk presented at the Presidential Climate Change conference in May 2022, and various other presentations:
The long and short of load-shedding solutions
Linking the energy transition and economic development: a framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South.
Swilling, M., Nygaard, I., Kruger, W., Wlokas, H., Jhetam, T., Davies, M., Jacob, M., Morris, M., Robbins, G., Funder, M., Hansen, U., Olsen, K., Davy, E., Kitzing, L. & Khan, B. 2022. Linking the energy transition and economic development: a framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South. Energy Research and Social Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102567
So, where is the $8.5 bn that South Africa was promised at COP26?
A Trip to 2030: Fostering Leadership and Transformative Change for Economic Diversification in Central Africa
The Sub-Regional Office of the United Nations Commission for Africa (UNECA) hosted the 37th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts of Centre Africa (ICE) from 6-10 December 2021 in Brazzaville, Congo. I led the team that wrote the background paper for this meeting, comprising Prof Desta Mebratu (Ethiopia) and Anton Cartwright (South Africa). Entitled “A trip to 2030: Fostering Leadership and Transformative Change for Economic Diversification in Central Africa”, I used this opportunity to take further our thinking in CST’s governance research group that is linking relational governance, political settlements theory and ‘institutional work’ approaches. This made it possible to address the leadership challenge in Africa without resorting to simplistic arguments about ’lack of political will’ and the ‘need for new leadership’. This institutionalist perspective is heavily influenced by the new African literature on political settlements.
New book chapter on State-Owned Enterprises
See Chapter 27 of this great new book on the South African economy – co-authored with Nina Callaghan, State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa. In The Oxford Handbook on the South African Economy
Swilling, M. & Callaghan, N. 2022. State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa. In: Oqubay, A., Tregenna, F. & Valodia, I. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894199.001.0001
Play the game, not the man: Eskom’s Andre De Ruyter needs all the support he can get if load shedding is to become a thing of the past
Working to align energy transitions and social equity: An integrative framework linking institutional work, imaginaries and energy justice
Title: Working to align energy transitions and social equity: An integrative
framework linking institutional work, imaginaries and energy justice
Authors: Jesse Hoffman , Megan Davies , Thomas Bauwens b, Philipp Sp¨ath , Maarten A. Hajer,
Bleta Arifi , Amir Bazaz , Mark Swilling
Journal: Energy Research and Social Science
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102317