Sustainable Stellenbosch: opening dialogues

Name: Sustainable Stellenbosch: opening dialogues
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Mark Swilling · Ben Sebitosi · Ruenda Loots

2012年11月 · AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

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Stellenbosch faces the same challenges that most South African urban areas face: rapid urbanisation, sluggish economic growth, growing inequalities, unsustainable use of natural resources, deteriorating biodiversity, social problems, unhealthy living, insecure supplies of healthy food, degrading soils, infrastructure backlogs and inadequate urban planning. At the same time, Stellenbosch has tremendous potential. It brings together in one beautiful place extra-ordinary intellectual capacity, social diversity, financial resources, creative potential, high value eco-systems, spiritual energy and some of South Africa?s most vibrant grassroots social movements in its poorest areas.

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Prof Mark Swilling is Programme Director of the Sustainable Development Programme at Stellenbosch University's School of Public Leadership, as well as Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute. He is responsible for the coordination of Master's and Doctoral programmes in sustainable development and has conducted extensive research on ways to make urban systems more sustainable. Prof Ben Sebitosi is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University. He teaches two postgraduate modules in renewable and solar energy, and acts as supervisor to Master's and Doctoral students from the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Public Leadership. Ruenda Loots works as a project coordinator for the Sustainability Institute and has coordinated various publications and educational programmes. She is also a member of BiomimicrySA and runs workshops for tertiary institutions. Ruenda is currently completing her PhD in biochemistry at Stellenbosch University.