Leveraging new understandings of the human-nature relationship to change the everyday experience of urban life in southern Africa. By positively shaping people’s sense of connectedness with nature, we aim to help foster greater (urban) resilience to improve human health and planetary wellbeing (i.e. conservation & sustainability)
Group members:
- Dr Matthew Zylstra, Kwendalo Institute/ CST, Stellenbosch University (lead)
- Dr Nanamhla Gwedla, Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University (lead)
- Prof. Karen Esler, Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University
- Dr Andrea Marais-Potgieter, Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand
- Dr Maike Hamann, Centre for Geography & Environmental Science, University of Exeter & Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University
- Dr Odirilwe Selomane, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
- Mr Reinhold Mangundu , PhD Student, Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University
- Lisa Beasley, Intern Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychology, University of the Western Cape, Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital