ORCID Profile
0000-0002-0413-0051
Current Organisation
University of Cape Town
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-09-2018
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 20-08-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-11-2020
Abstract: Throughout the early months of 2020, COVID-19 rapidly changed how the world functioned, with the closure of borders, schools and workplaces, national lockdowns, and the rapid normalization of “self-isolation” and “social distancing”. However, while public health recommendations were broadly universal, human capacity to accordingly transform everyday life has differed significantly. We use the ex le of South Africa to highlight the privileged nature of the ability to transform one’s life in response to COVID-19, arguing that the virus both highlights and exacerbates existing inequalities in access to infrastructure. For those living in urban poverty in South Africa, where access to basic infrastructure is limited, and where overcrowding and high density are the norm, it is frequently impossible to transform daily life in the required ways. The failure of global public health recommendations to recognize these inequalities, and to adapt advice to national and local contexts, reveals significant limitations that extend beyond this specific global pandemic.
Publisher: Academy of Science of South Africa
Date: 03-12-2018
DOI: 10.17159/2413-3051/2018/V29I4A5072
Abstract: This study explores user experiences with improved cookstoves, drawing on findings from household surveys conducted in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia. Investigations were conducted on fuel and stove preferences experiences with improved biomass cookstoves the rationale for fuel and stovestacking subsequent to the initial uptake of improved biomass cookstoves and aspirations for energy and fuel use among improved biomass cookstove users. Significant differences were identified in the perceived benefits of improved biomass cookstoves in the four countries and their priorities, with the most important benefits being fuel and cost savings. These would affect the reference frames within which end-users adopt improved biomass cookstoves. Local circumstances and erse sets of priorities that affect household decisions need to be considered when promoting or rolling out improved cookstove initiatives.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-11-2020
Abstract: Throughout the early months of 2020, COVID-19 rapidly changed how the world functioned, with the closure of borders, schools and workplaces, national lockdowns, and the rapid normalization of “self-isolation” and “social distancing”. However, while public health recommendations were broadly universal, human capacity to accordingly transform everyday life has differed significantly. We use the ex le of South Africa to highlight the privileged nature of the ability to transform one’s life in response to COVID-19, arguing that the virus both highlights and exacerbates existing inequalities in access to infrastructure. For those living in urban poverty in South Africa, where access to basic infrastructure is limited, and where overcrowding and high density are the norm, it is frequently impossible to transform daily life in the required ways. The failure of global public health recommendations to recognize these inequalities, and to adapt advice to national and local contexts, reveals significant limitations that extend beyond this specific global pandemic.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: Academy of Science of South Africa
Date: 21-09-2018
DOI: 10.17159/2413-3051/2018/V29I3A4357
Abstract: The informal sector provides economic opportunities to the poor, and in sub-Saharan African countries it is dominated by women. Energy is a key input into the food sector enterprises. A study was carried out to review academic and non-academic literature on the use and gender impacts of modern energy in informal food enterprises. The review established that few studies have addressed energy for the informal food sector from a gender perspective. Although these few are qualitative in nature, they tend to lack in-depth analysis of gender and of the cause-and-effect linkages between modern energy use in the informal sector and the gendered goals of women and men. Moreover, a lack of understanding of gender from a relational perspective focusing on both women and men impeded conclusions on empowerment in terms of whether increased access to modern energy in the informal food sector contributes to closing the gender gap. This paper makes three key recommendations. First, scholars need to address the gaps and take a relational approach, so that studies are not just about women but also about the power relations between various groups of women and men. Secondly, policy needs to recognise that biomass is sometimes desired not just as an energy source but also for the flavour it imparts to food. Lastly, policy should be informed by the needs of informal enterprise owners and their customers, not by the general discourse in the energy sector that assumes that increased uptake of modern energy services makes positive contributions to enterprises.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-09-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-05-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-04-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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