The Public Squares Teams
Trashed & Toxic Transitions
'Trashed and toxic transitions?' The environmental burden from climate and energy transitions that go wrong.
The sustainability of a just energy transition towards a low-carbon economy is at risk. Trade- offs between low-carbon but high-material, high-waste, and high-toxicity scenarios need to be critically examined in an inter- and transdisciplinary manner.
This Public Square brings together an interdisciplinary core team to address this complex issue in partnership with other academics and non-academic players.
Potential outcomes include:
- ?improved tools to measure environmental burden,
- greater capacity in energy-economic-climate-environment modelling, a
- responsive public policy and governance systems. Important, these potential
Outputs will be co-created with policy and decision-makers, and with those who are vulnerable to climate change and the impacts of transition.?
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?Faculty / School / Department represente?d: ??
- Faculty Economics and Management Sciences
- School of Public Leadership: Environmental Management
- Faculty Agri Sciences
- Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology
- Faculty of Arts
- Department of Political Science
- Faculty of Law
- Department of Mercantile Law
- Faculty of Engineering
- School for Climate Studies
Core Team Members?:
- Prof. Martin de Wit
- Prof. Anel du Plessis
- Prof. Karen Esler
- Prof. Derica Lambrechts
- Prof. Guy Midgley
- Prof. Babette Rabie?
- Prof. Wikus van Niekerk?
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