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.
Post-Covid-19 crisis pathways: Choices for Africa’s enduring economic recovery
Covid-19: Economic impact on East and southern Africa
There’s hope, if we wake up to today’s evolutionary potential
There’s hope, if we wake up to today’s evolutionary potential
My article in The Conversation on 12 March 2020 – one of the core themes of the my new book Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World.
Eskom is in a death spiral, so its time to change the energy ballgame – Daily Maverick, 18 February 2020
R6 billion – first estimate of Just Transition in South Africa
Article by Michelle Cruywagen, Mark Swilling and Megan Davies in the Daily Maverick, 10 December 2019
R6-billion – first estimate of Just Transition in South Africa
Transformational Infrastructure for Development of a Wellbeing Economy in Africa
Mebratu, D. & Swilling, M. (eds.) 2019. Tranformational Infrastructure for Development of a Wellbeing Economy in Africa. Stellenbosch: Sun Media.
This book was launched last week at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) that took place in Durban. The gentlemen in the pic on the left are (from left to right) Dr. Frank Turyatunga, Deputy Director of UNEP-Africa, Dr. Patrick Mwesigye, Uganda, Dr Henry Roman, Director at DST, South Africa and Christoff Pauw from Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies. In the pic on the right Desta Mebratu (far left) is with current President of AMCEN and Environment Minister of Gabon (Lee White) and Director of the UNEP Africa Office in the middle.
Very proud to be launching a new book co-edited with Prof Desta Mebratu, an Ethiopian researcher and policy advocate who has worked on an African perspective on sustainability since the mid-1990s. His famous 1998 article has been read by my students every year since 2003 as a compulsory reading.
Russian Scramble for Africa
Wake up, Everyone: ANC NEC’s energy statement is a real New Dawn for South Africa
Article in Daily Maverick, 4 October 2019
Wake up, Everyone: ANC NEC’s energy statement is a real New Dawn for South Africa
Why microeconomic policies cannot work if macroeconomic policies are wrong
My article in Daily Maverick co-authored with Gael Giraud in response to the National Treasury’s Economic Strategy for South Africa.Click HERE
South African probe into corruption awaits a star witness – Jacob Zuma
My article today on Zuma and the Zondo Commission in The Conversation, co-authored with Robyn Foley and Nina Callaghan.Click HERE