Description:
Stellenbosch faces the same challenges as most South African urban areas, but it also has tremendous potential. Bringing together in one beautiful place extra-ordinary intellectual capacity, social diversity, and creative potential.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
Sustainable Stellenbosch - Opening Dialogues is an interdisciplinary collection of thoughtprovoking academic essays about the challenges facing Stellenbosch "as a place, a community and an ecosystem".
Desmond Thompson, Stellenbosch Style
Sustainable Stellenbosch is a hugely ambitious attempt at a "grand unification theory" for a single town - and the authors have pulled it off. Not by any means a perfect document, ... it nevertheless straddles a staggering breadth of disciplines. This book has chartered new territories in the search for a responsible and dignified existence for all.
David Pepler