Please note the change of date due to strike action.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Mary Scholes (Visiting Research Fellow 2023; University of the Witwatersrand).
What are meaningful social and biophysical indicators that should be measured and monitored to enhance sustainable livelihoods in a rural community in South Africa?
The Social-Ecological Systems (SES) approach aims to optimize social capital (sustainable livelihood strategies) and natural capital (sediment yield, fire, soil carbon, rangelands, ecological health), with the active participation of multisectoral stakeholders, catchment residents, government officials, industry and research institutions. This project adopts a systems-based approach, to design and test an integrated observation system. Various sources and types of data (temporal, spatial, biophysical and social) at different scales and collection frequencies will be considered as potential inputs in developing a set of Essential Variables and indicators for the observation system. The system is complex and needs to address the livelihoods of the people in a changing political and climate impacted region which is inhabited by poor people who use the rangeland for cattle, sheep, goats, agriculture and forestry. The resilience of the land and people have been impacted by poor governance and the legacy of apartheid.
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