2025 Duca, F., A. Mutua, L. Tetley-Brown, G. Karuri-Sebina and J. Backhouse (2025) 'A systematic review of smart city governance in the Southern African Development Community'. Nature Cities 2: 149–56....
By Sikhumbuzo Dube, graduate of PARI's Organisational and Institutional Studies programme. This is article is grounded in his doctoral thesis. Volume 51 - Issue 2 - pp 215–34 | Journal...
By Raffael Beier (TU Dortmund) and Nonhlanhla Mathibela. Nonhlanhla is a researcher in PARI's Just Transition programme. This is article is based on her MPhil research on the sale of...
By Lily Manoim, graduate of PARI's Organisational and Institutional Studies programme. This is article is grounded in her Master's thesis. Volume 5 - Issue 1 - 2025 | New Sociological...
Academic Engagement Lead, Federica Duca, is co-author on this article in Nature Cities. Abstract This paper offers a systematic review of literature on smart cities in the Southern African Development...
Lead of PARI's Land Governance programme, Gaynor Paradza, co-edited this Special Issue of Land Use Policy with Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa and Michael Klaus. Titled Current research and...
By Sarah Meny-Gibert ABSTRACT Whilst most post-apartheid public schools in South Africa remain significantly underfunded, the education budget nevertheless provides a significant injection of jobs and public spending into the...
By Gaynor Paradza, Lebogang Mokwena and Walter Musakwa Abstract Although land forms the basis for marginal livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, the asset is more strategic for women as they...
By Walter Musakwa, Trynos Gumbo, Gaynor Paradza, Ephraim Mpofu, Nesisa Analisa Nyathi and Ntlakala B. Selamolela Abstract National parks play an important role in maintaining natural ecosystems which are...
"This ambitious issue of Transformation seeks to open a window into local government, and offer new understandings about what a municipality is, and how it works. Many of these articles...
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