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.
How to double GDP in 10 years: an alternative model of the state
Imagine no load shedding, its easy if you try – no hell below us, above us only sky
Article published in Daily Maverick on 21 June 2021
Imagine no load shedding, it’s easy if you try — no hell below us, above us only sky
Its the green train now – and you’re on the wrong platform, Gwede Mantashe. Daily Maverick, 24 May 2021
Towards new narratives of hope for fostering transformative African futures – Club of Rome
COR-ENCI_NewNarratives_Dec2020_A4 – v1
This concept paper was prepared for the Club of Rome on the initiative of the Co-Chair, Mamphela Ramphele. Rika Preiser and I from the CST did the heavy lifting based on months of discussion by a group of Africans from different parts of Africa convened by Mamphela in her Co-Chair capacity. It was fun to write this paper with Mamphela, Rika and others to express some of the more recent decolonial literature in a (hopefully) accessible format.
Load shedding will cripple our economic recovery – we must bring renewables onstream fast
New Wine in New Wine Skins: An Alternative Economic Strategy for South Africa’s Economic Reconstruction
Last night we launched our new report entitled New Wine in New Wine Skins: An Alternative Economic Strategy for South Africa’s Economic Reconstruction, co-authored by Nthabiseng Moleko (from Stellenbosch Business School) and Mark Swilling. Follows on workshops in March, August and November 2019. We launched this at a webinar last night with Prof Thuli Madonsela, broadcast simultaneously by SABC across all its Africa platforms.
Full reference: Moleko, N & Swilling, M. 2020. New Wine in New Wine Skins: An Alternative Economic Strategy for South Africa’s Reconstruction. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch Business School and Centre for Complex Systems in Transition.
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A transition to sustainable ocean governance
Title: A transition to sustainable ocean governance
Authors: Tanya Brodie Rudolph, Mary Ruckelshaus, Mark Swilling,
Edward H. Allison, Henrik Österblom, Stefan Gelcich
Philile Mbatha
Source: Brodie-Rudolph, T., Ruckelshaus, M., Swilling, M.,
Allison, E.H., Österblom, H., Gelcich, S. & Mbatha, P. A transition to sustainable ocean governance. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17410-2 .
The Ocean Transition: What To Learn From System Transitions
Below are the links to the full paper and the summary for decision makers of the report for the High Level Panel on the Oceans. This High Level Panel consists of 13 Heads of State who are concerned about the future of the oceans. I was co-lead author with South African Tanya Brodie (who is a CST Research Fellow) and American Stanford Professor Mary Ruckelshaus. I learnt so much about the world of ocean governance from this work, and it reinforced my ideas about the commons that I discussed in my latest book The Age of Sustainability.
The Ocean Transition Summary for Decision Makers
The Ocean Transition Full Paper
Accelerating the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy
Launch of Ocean Panel Blue Paper during World Ocean Week (co-lead authors Mark Swilling and Tanya Brodie Rudolph of CST with Mary Ruckelshaus, Stanford University): “Accelerating the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy”
The COVID-19 crisis has brought into sharp focus the interconnected nature of people and the environment. This is particularly true of the ocean, which is integral to human well-being and a thriving world economy. As multiple stressors threaten the ocean, shifts in governance are needed to ensure the continued contribution of the ocean to people. The Ocean Panel (High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy), an initiative of 14 serving world leaders, commissioned a series of Blue Papers to build momentum towards a sustainable ocean economy. Blue Paper 14 – “The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions” – will be launched on Friday 12 June 2020 at an event which concludes two weeks of global dialogues and debates with the ocean community.
Dr Mary Ruckelshaus, co-lead author (Natural Capital Project, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University) will participate in a panel discussion presenting the key insights from this paper together with Dr. Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute, H.E. Mr. Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Mr. Vidar Helgesen, Norway’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Sherpa to Prime Minister Erna Solberg, H.E. Ms. Ngedikes Olai Uludong, Permanent Representative of Palau to the UN, Sherpa to President Remengesau Jr, and Hon. Jane Lubchenco, PhD., Oregon State University, Co-chair Ocean Panel Expert Group.
Join the event by registering on https://wri.zoom.us/webinar/register/tJMpf-CurDopH9d4PJb8s7nzyDkUGB7IyneN/success?user_id=CO7Z6HFHSo63_t6aSkrKiQ&timezone_id=America%2FNew_York