13 research outputs found
Industrial development zone and South African environmental legal initiatives post-1994: a quest for sustainable industrial development
The role that small and medium-sized enterprises play in sustainable development and the green economy in the waste sector, South Africa
Green procurement in South Africa: perspectives on legislative provisions in metropolitan municipalities
Identifying ecosystem service hotspots for environmental management in Durban, South Africa
Vulnerability of growing cities to solid waste-related environmental hazards: The case of Mthatha, South Africa
Information and communication technology and climate change adaptation: Evidence from selected mining companies in South Africa
Environment and sustainability education research as policy engagement: (re-) invigorating ‘politics as potentia’ in South Africa
Using a meta-review approach organized historically in relation to critical policy incidents, this paper critically reviews the process of developing and (re) invigorating Environment and Sustainability Education (ESE) (policy) research as ESE policy engagement over a 30+ year period in a rapidly transforming society, South Africa. It offers an example of long term policy-research meta-review in a context of policy flux. It adds to a body of international ESE policy studies that are seeking to understand and develop the ESE research/policy interface as this relation emerges under more complex conditions. In particular, we respond to the finding in the systematic review of ESE policy research undertaken by Aikens, McKenzie and Vaughter (2016) which reports a geographic under-representation of Africa (amongst other places) in ESE policy studies, and González-Gaudiano (2016, 118)’s insight that ESE policy research in current neo-liberally dominated political conditions and as political process, is essentially an “open, unsteady, incomplete, and relational process”