Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

Andrea Membretti (PhD in Sociology) is a Senior Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (Karelian Institute). He is also Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (South Africa), Assistant Professor of Territorial Sociology at the University of Pavia (Italy) and Research Affiliate at the Department of Cultures, Politics & Society of the University of Turin (Italy). His main field of research is migration to/from mountain and remote regions, in relationship to sustainable development. Susan Jean Taylor (PhD) is a development consultant with experience in researching, writing and lecturing about climate change and social/development issues in South Africa and Africa. She has worked in the research sector doing crop biotechnology, in nature conservation and in the NGO sector as a climate change activist, and then in the academic sector as a science writer. Her current interest is cities and climate change adaptation. Jess L. Delves is a researcher at Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS), a joint research programme of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (Germany) and Eurac Research (Italy). Her research takes a political ecology perspective in investigating land degradation and water management in Lesotho and South Africa.

The rise and fall of a homeland capital.- Urban sustainable development in the Global South. A resilience-based approach.- Phuthaditjhaba communities - the future sustainable city.- Human settlement growth and socio-economic development: a geographical analysis.- Internal and international migration in a mountain border town.- Virtual disclosures and self-emancipations:  the female body and self-identity on online platforms.