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Contact Details

Postal Address: Electron Microscope Unit, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web: http://sbio.uct.ac.za/Webemu/

Research Output
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Agarkar, V.B., Kimani, S.W., Cowan, D.A., Sayed, M.F-R. and Sewell, B.T. 2006. The quaternary structure of the amidase from Geobacillus pallidus RAPc8 is revealed by its crystal packing. Acta Cryst, F62: 1174-1178.
Heath, L., Van der Walt, E., Varsani, A. and Martin, D. 2006. Recombination patterns in aphthoviruses mirror those found in other picornaviruses. Journal of Virology, 80(23): 11827–11832.
Kohl, T., Hitzeroth, I.I., Stewart, D., Varsani, A., Govan, V.D., Christensen, N.D., Williamson, A.-L. and Rybicki, E.P. 2006. Plant-produced cottontail rabbit papillomavirus L1 protein protects against tumor challenge: A proof-of-concept study. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 13(8): 845–853.
Shepherd, D.N., Martin, D.P., Varsani, A., Thomson, J.A., Rybicki, E.P. and Klump, H.H. 2006. Restoration of native folding of single-stranded DNA sequences through reverse mutations: An indication of a new epigenetic mechanism. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 453 (2006): 106–120.
Tastan Bishop, A.O. and Sewell, T. 2006. A new approach to possible substrate binding mechanisms for nitrile hydratase. Biochemnicala dn Biophysical Research Communications, 343: 319-325.
Van Rooyen, J., Abratt, V. and Sewell, B.T. 2006. Three-dimensional structure of a type iii Glutamine Synthetase by single-particle reconstruction. Journal of Molecular Biology, 361: 796-810.
Varsani, A., Van der Walt, E., Heath, L., Rybicki, E.P., Williamson, A.-L. and Martin, D.P. 2006. Evidence of ancient papillomavirus recombination. Journal of General Virology, 87: 2527–2531
Varsani, A., Williamson, A.-L., Jaffer, M.A. and Rybicki, E.P. 2006. A deletion and point mutation study of the human papillomavirus type 16 major capsid gene. Virus Research, 122: 154–163.
Varsani, A., Williamson, A.-L., Stewart, D. and Rybicki, E.P. 2006. Transient expression of Human papillomavirus type 16 L1 protein in Nicotiana benthamiana using an infectious tobamovirus vector. Virus Research, 120 (2006): 91–96.
Watermeyer, J.M., Sewell, B.T., Schwager, S.L., Natesh, R., Corradi, H.R., Ravi Acharya, K. and Sturrock, E.D. 2006. Structure of Testis ACE Glycosylation Mutants and evidence for conserved domain movement. Biochemistry, 45: 12654-12663.

Department of Environmental and Geographical Science

Research Report 2006
(Including the Environmental Evaluation Unit and the Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihood Project)
Head of Department: Professor M.E. Meadows
Departmental Profile
The interaction between humans and their environment and the variability of this environment is a common theme in the department's teaching activities and research initiatives. Details of the particular foci are given below. The department has ongoing research initiatives with numerous overseas institutions. These include: the Centre of Earth Sciences of Pennsylvania State University; Centre for Global Studies, University of Gothenburg; the Iowa State University; the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; the University of British Columbia; the Institute of Southern African Studies; the National University of Lesotho; University of Western Australia; the University of Melbourne; the University of Northern British Columbia; Oregon State University; the Department of African Studies of the University of Mainz; the Department of Human Geography and Sociology, University of Oslo; the Department of Geography at the University of Brighton; Southern African Research Centre; Queens University; University of Sheffield; University of Oxford; the Departments of Geography at the University of Paris X Nanterre and the University of Paris IV Sorbonne in France and the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn; and the Department of Geography at the University of Oulu. There are also links with the United Kingdom Meteorological Office, the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in California and the CSIRO Atmospheric Research and Marine Research in Australia.
The Environmental Evaluation Unit was established as an independent professional consulting, research and training unit within the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science in 1985, based at the University of Cape Town. During the past 20 years, the EEU has completed over 150 consulting assignments and projects for private, institutional and government clients. The EEU has established itself as a centre of excellence in the field of environmental management, sustainable development, and natural resource management in Africa, particularly within the SADC region (projects have been completed in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland and the Seychelles).
The Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Project (DiMP) has been active at UCT since 1998. DiMP undertakes a diverse suite of activities, including focused disaster risk research into small, medium and large disasters in the Cape Metropolitan Area and past disaster research following declared disasters. It is also the secretariat for a southern African disaster risk reduction network called ‘Periperi” (partners enhancing resilience to people exposed to risks).

Departmental Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff

Professors	4
Senior Lecturers	4
Lecturers	5
Research Staff	29
Technical Support Staff	3
Postgraduate Co-ordinator	1
Administrative & Support Staff	10
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Honorary Staff

Honorary Professor

3

Students

Postdoctoral	4
Doctoral	29
Masters	30
Honours	24
Undergraduate	582
Total	669

Research Fields and Staff
Permanent Academic Staff
Ms Shirley Butcher

Lecturer; geographic information systems (GIS)

Dr Neil Dewar

Senior Lecturer; regional development; urban studies

Dr Frank Eckardt

Senior Lecturer; Geomorphology, remote sensing

Professor Richard Fuggle

Integrated Environmental Management; environmental quality assurance

Professor Bruce Hewitson

Atmospheric science; climatology

Dr Richard Hill

Lecturer; Environmental Assessment and Management

Professor Mike Meadows

Head of Department; Quaternary environmental change

Dr Sophie Oldfield

Senior Lecturer; political and economic geography

Professor Sue Parnell

Urban studies; historical geography

Dr Maano Ramutsindela

Senior Lecturer; political geography; Third World development

Dr Kevin Winter

Lecturer; environmental management: water resources; monitoring and evaluation

Contract Academic Staff
Mr Emiola Gbobaniyi

Lecturer; Atmospheric science

Ms Ruwani Walawege

Lecturer; Atmospheric science

Long-term Contract Staff
Ms Janet Bodenstein

Integrated environmental management; environmental quality assurance

Ms Maria Hauck

Coastal zone management

Dr Ailsa Holloway

Disaster risk research

Ms Lynette Munro

Integrated environmental management; environmental policy; ecological assessment

Dr Merle Sowman

Community participation; coastal zone management; Local Agenda 21

Contract Research Staff
Mrs Sharon Barnard

Project administrator

Dr Jane Battersby-Lennard

Postgraduate Co-ordinator

Amanda Batweni

Risk reduction research

Mr Roger Brown

Soil & moisture

Mr Ameen Benjamin

Disaster Risk Research

Gillian Fortune

Risk reduction; knowledge management

Dr Richard Hasler

Coastal zone management

Mr Chris Jack

Climate modelling

Mr Peter Johnston

CSAG project manager

Ms Sheri Lim

Environmental policy; capacity building

Xola Mlandu

Risk reduction research

Loleka Mjuleni

Risk reduction/data capturer

Mr Michael Lucas

Disaster Risk Research

Ms Helen MacGregor

Risk reduction research

Mr James Morrissey

Disaster Risk Research

Mr Laurence Nathan

Security studies

Mr Greg Nicolson

Disaster Risk Research

Lyndall Pottier

Risk reduction research

Ms Sandra Rippon

Implementation of sustainable development

Mr Mia Salie

Disaster Risk Research

Ms Leigh Sonn

Disaster Risk Research

Ms Anna Steynor

Project adminstrator

Ms Tanya Wichmann

Risk reduction research

Ms Samantha Williams

Coastal Zone Management

Ms Rachel Wynberg

Commerical use of biodiversity

Mr Vuyisile Zenani

Capacity building LA21

Administrative and Support Staff
Mrs Sharon Adams

Administrative Officer

Mr Quintin Wiliams

Intern
Ms Fahdelah Hartley

Senior Secretary
Mr Tony George

Library Assistant

Mrs Shanaaz Hassiem

Financial & Office Manager

Mr Sayed Hess

Laboratory Departmental Assistant

Ms Amanda Innes

Senior Secretary

Ms Sylvia Prime

Admin Manager

Ms Lynn O’Neill

Short Course Co-ordinator

Mrs Shaada Reddy

Librarian

Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Adriana Carvalho

Coastal Zone Management

Dr Brian Chase

Quaternary palaeoecology

Dr Charlotte Lemansky

Urban and social geography

Dr Mark Tadross

CSAG climate modelling; seasonal forecasting

Dr Gina Ziervogel

Climate impacts and rural livelihoods

Honorary Research Associates
Prof John Boardman

Soil erosion and land degradation

Prof Jonathan Crush

International migration and transnationalism

Prof Dave Thomas

Arid zone geomorphology; quaternary science

Contact Details

Postal address: Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web: www.egs.uct.ac.za

Research Output
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Boraine, A., Crankshaw, O., Engelbrecht, C., Gotz, G., Mbanga, S., Narsoo, M. and Parnell, S. 2006. The state of South African cities a decade after democracy. Urban Studies, 43(2): 259-284.
Carr, A.S., Thomas, D.S.G., Bateman, M.D., Meadows, M.E. and Chase, B. 2006. Late quaternary palaeoenvironments of the winter-rainfall zone of southern Africa: Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Agulhas Plain. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 239: 147-165.
Colin de Verdiere, A. and Tailleux, R. 2005. The interaction of a baroclinic mean flow with long Rossby waves. American Meteorological Society, 35: 865-879.
Crush, J., Williams, B., Gouws, E. and Lurie, M. 2005. Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 22(3): 293-318.
Dixon, J. and Ramutsindela, M. 2006. Urban resettlement and environmental justice in Cape Town. Cities, 23(2): 129-139.
Fuggle, R.F. 2006. What is common sense in the first world may not be common sense in the third world. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 24(1): 17.
Hamandawana, H., Eckardt, F. and Ringrose, S. 2006. The use of step-wise density slicing in classifying high-resolution panchromatic photographs. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(21): 4923-4942.
Hasler, R. 2005. The tragedy of privatization: Moving mountains in Appalachia, a southern African critique. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 11(1-2): 95-103.
Hewitson, B.C. and Crane, R.G. 2006. Consensus between GCM climate change projections with empirical downscaling: Precipitations downscaling over South Africa. International Journal of Climatology, 26(10): 45-51.
Kaatz, E.K., Root, D.S., Bowen, P.A. and Hill, R.C. 2006. Advancing key outcomes of sustainability building assessment. Building Research and Information, 34(4): 308-320.
Kepe, T., Wynberg, R. and Ellis, W. 2005. Land reform and biodiversity conservation in South Africa: Complementary or in conflict? International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management, 1: 3-16.
Lemanski, C. 2006. The impact of residential desegregation on social integration: evidence from a South African neighbourhood. Geoforum, 37(3): 417-435.
Lemanski, C. 2006. Spaces of exclusivity or connection? Linkages between a gated community and its poorer neighbour in a Cape Town Master Plan Development. Urban Studies, 43(2): 307-420.
Meadows, M.E. 2006. Global change and southern Africa. Geographical Research 44(2): 135-145.
Meadows, M.E. and Kiunsi, R. 2006. Assessing land degradation in the Monduli District, northern Tanzania. Land Degradation and Development, 17(5): 509-527.
Meadows, M.E., Rahlao, S.J. and Dietrich, K. 2006. Land use dynamics, soil erosion and conservation in the Tygerberg Hills, Cape Town, South Africa. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 143: 75-86.
Nash, D.J., Meadows, M.E. and Gulliver, V.L. 2006. Holocene environmental change in the Okavango Panhandle, northwest Botswana. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 1302-1322.
Nathan, L. 2006. Domestic instability and security communities. European Journal of International Relations 12 (2): 275-299.
Nathan, L. 2006. SADC's uncommon approach to common security, 1992-2003. Journal of Southern African Studies 32 (3): 605-622.
New, M., Coelho, C.A.S., Tsiga, A., Kruger, A., Mbambalala, E., Manhique, A., Gomez, B., Masisi, D.N., Kululanga, E., Adesina, F., Saleh, H., Kanyanga, J., Bulane, L., Fortunata, L., Lojoie, R., Hewitson, B.C., Mdoka, M.L. and Stephenson, D.B. 2005. Evidence of trends in daily climate extremes over Southern and West Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 111(D14102): 1-11.
Parnell, S. and Robinson, J. 2006. Development and urban policy: Johannesburg's City Development Strategy. Urban Studies, 43(2): 337-355.
Parnell, S. and Stanvliet, R. 2006. The contribution of the UNESCO biosphere reserve concept to urban resilience. Management of Environmental Quality, 17(4): 437-449.
Parnell, S., Douglas, S. and Boulle, J. 2005. Institutionalising pro-poor local economic development through expanded public works in the urban environment of Cape Town. Africa Insight, 35(4): 53-62.
Reason, C.J.C., Engelbrecht, F., Landman, W., Lutjeharms, J.R.E., Piketh, S., Rautenbach, C.J.W. and Hewitson, B.C. 2006. A review of South African research in atmospheric science and physical oceanography during 2000-2005. South African Journal of Science, 102(1-2): 35-45.
Reusch, D.B., Alley, R. and Hewitson, B.C. 2005. Relative performance of self-organizing maps and principal component analysis in pattern. Polar Geography, 29(3): 188-212.
Sowman, M. 2006. Subsistence and small-scale fisheries in South Africa: A ten-year review. Marine Policy, 30: 60-73.
Sowman, M. and Brown, A.L. 2006. Mainstreaming environmental sustainability into South Africa's integrated development planning process. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 49(5): 695-712.
Tadross, M.A., Gutowski, W.J., Hewitson, B.C., Jack, C.D. and New, M. 2006. MM5 simulations of interannual change and the diurnal cycle of southern African regional climate. Theotetical and Applied Climatology, 86(1-4): 63-80.
Tailleux, R. 2006. The quasi-nondispersive regimes of long extratropical baroclinic Rossby waves over (slowly varying) topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 36: 104-121.
Van Sittert, L. and Hauck, M. 2006. Introduction: Post-apartheid marine fisheries in South Africa: Through the ten-year looking glass. Marine Policy, 30(1): 1-2.
Van Sittert, L., Branch, G.M., Hauck, M. and Sowman, M. 2006. Benchmarking the first decade of post-apartheid fisheries reform in South Africa. Marine Policy, 30(1): 96-110.
White, K. and Eckardt, F. 2006. Geochemical mapping of carbonate sediments in the Makgadikgadi basin, Botswana using moderate resolution remote sensing data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 31: 665-681.
Ziervogel, G., Bharwani, S. and Downing, T.E. 2006. Adapting to climate variability: Pumpkins, people and policy. Natural Resource Forum, 30: 294–305.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Diederichs, N., Feiter, U. and Wynberg, R. 2006. Production of traditional medicines: technologies, standards and regulatory issues. In N. Diederichs (ed.), Commercialising medicinal plants. A southern African guide: 9-19. Stellenbosch: SUN Press.
Holloway, A.J. 2006. Disaster mitigation. In D.A. Clark (ed.), The Elgar companion to development studies: 130-134. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Ramutsindela, M.F. 2006. State restructuring and rural development in South Africa. In M.C. Behera (ed.), Globalising rural development competing paradigms and emerging realities: 78-91. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Ramutsindela, M.F. and Dixon, J. 2006. Environmental justice as a means to an end. In A. Potrykowska (ed.), Population, environment and development: 49-57. Warszawa: Polish Academy of Science.
Stokke, K. and Oldfield, S.E. 2006. Building unity in diversity: Social movement activism in the Western Cape anti-eviction campaign. In R. Ballard, A. Habib and I. Valodia (eds), Voices of PROTEST: 111-133. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu Natal Press.
Stokke, K. and Oldfield, S.E. 2006. Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa. In H. Leitner, J. Peck and E. Sheppard (eds), Contesting neoliberalism urban frontiers: 139-156. New York: The Guilford Press.
Wynberg, R. 2006. Bioprospecting, access and benefit-sharing. In N. Diederichs (ed.), Commercialising medicinal plants. A southern African guide: 205-216. Stellenbosch: SUN Press.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Armitage, N.P., Carden, K.J., Winter, K.J., Rivett, U.K. and Sichone, O.B. 2006. Developing a model to assess management options for greywater in the informal settlements of South Africa. In A. Deletic and T. Fletcher (eds), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling and the 4th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design, 3-7 April 2006, Melbourne, Australia, 733-739. IWA. ISBN 0-646-45903-1.
Kaatz, E.K., Root, D.S., Hill, R.C. and Bowen, P.A. 2006. Fostering sustainability and enhancing quality in construction with a building sustainability assessment. In D. Boyd (ed.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2006, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 349-359. ARCOM. ISBN 0-9552390-0-1.
Walker, J., Hill, R.C., Bowen, P.A., Cattell, K.S. and Michell, K.A. 2006. A sustainability assessment method for greenfields, low cost, cement block housing developements on Cape Flats, Cape Town. In T.C. Haupt and J. Smallwood (eds), Proceedings of the 1st Built Environment Conference, 18-21 June 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa, 212-225. ASOCSA. ISBN 0-620-36437-8.

NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Carden, K.J., Armitage, N.P., Sichone, O.B., Winter, K.J. and Rivett, U.K. 2006. Management options for the safe use and disposal of greywater in the non-sewered areas of South Africa. Proceedings of WISA - Biennial Conference and Exhibition 2006, Durban, 11.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Barrable, A. 2006. Climate change effect on land degradation and agriculture in the Swartland, South Africa: 1-182. Doctor of Science.
Bass, O. 2006. (D)urban identity: Stories of an African city: 1-319. Doctor of Science.
Borel-Saladin, J.M. 2006. Professionalisation or polarisation? Economic restructuring and changes in Cape Town's labour market: 1-118. Master of Science.
Charter, R. 2006. A post hoc scoping assessment or the rapid rate and scale of urban development along the "West Coast": 3 case studies: 1-128. Master of Science.
Engledow, S.-A. 2006. The strategic assessment of a curbside recycling initiative in Cape Town as a tool for integrated waste management: 1-198. Master of Arts.
Fontaine, D.L. 2006. Combining theoretical concepts and tools; mapping human deprivation in the city of Cape Town: 1-171. Master of Science.
Kaatz, E.K. 2006. Developing a building sustainability assessment model for the South African built environment - searching for new approaches to improve the effectiveness of building assessment: 1-310. PhD.
Marshall, M. 2006. Climatic trends and soil moisture feedbacks over Zimbabwe: 1-123. Master of Science.
Nakileza, B.R. 2006. Soil degradation and associated socio-economical impacts in the drylands of Nakasongola District, Central Uganda: 1-297. Doctor of Philosophy.
Peters, K. 2005. 'Free Basic Water' and cost recovery: Impact on low-income households in Grabouw: 1-105. M Soc Sci (Democratic Governance).
Roberts, J.W. 2006. Assessing intra-seasonal land surface change and long term trends in the Succulent Karoo biome using coarse resolution satellite data and interpolated rainfall surfaces: 1-133. Master of Science.
Seliane, M. 2006. Holocene vegetation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Cederberg Mountains of South Africa: Palynological evidence from fossil hyrax (Provavia) dung middens: 1-121. MSc in Environmental & Geographical Science.
Shale, T. 2006. Unworkable formula: decentralisation, development and natural resource conservation in Sehlabathebe, Lesotho: 1-128. Master of Science.
Stamelman, A. 2006. Contested conservation: Past and present conservation praxis in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: 1-106. Master of Arts.
Winkler, H.E. 2006. Energy policies for sustainable development in South Africa's residential and electricity sectors Implications for mitigating climate change: 1-250. Doctor of Science.
Winter, K.J. 2006. An evaluation of community-based environmental initiatives at Betty's Bay, Western Cape - South Africa: 1-240. Doctoral.
Zweig, P.J. 2006. The Lagunya Lacuna: Contestations of legitimacy and agency in housing allocation in a black local authority, 1993-1984: 1-185.

UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS OF A POPULAR NATURE
Hill, R.C. 2006. EA Professionals making - if not taking - decisions. Newsletter of the International Association for Impact Assessment South African Affiliate 2006 (March): 6.

Extension and Development Work
Crush, J. 2005. Breaking with Isolation: Johannesburg, South Africa. UN Habitat. University of Venice.
Crush, J. 2005. HIV/AIDS, Population Mobility and Migration in Southern Africa. Southern Africa of the Netherlands. Canadian International Development Agency, UK Dept of International Development.
Crush, J. 2006. Degrees of Uncertainty: Students an dthe Brain Drain in Southern Africa. the Southern African Migration Project.
Crush, J., Pendleton, W. and Tevera, D.S. 2005. Degrees of Uncertainty: Students and the Brain Drain in Southern Africa. Canadian International Development Agency. Canadian International Development Agency, UK Dept for International Development.
Crush, J., Williams, V. and Peberdy, S. 2005. Migration in Southern Africa. Global Commission on International Migration. Global Commission on International Migration.
Williams, V. and Crush, J. 2005. International Migration and Development: Dynamics and Challenges in South and Southern Africa. United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Int. Migrat. Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, UN/POP/MIG.