This book provides an overview of sustainability issues and challenges affecting countries in the Global South, and particularly in Southern Africa, related to climate change, resource scarcity, and social inequality. It emphasizes innovations in which the triple-headed approach blends environmental, social, and economic pieces of problem-solving into the sustainability puzzle. The book uses real-life examples and expert opinions to illustrate how different communities can join efforts to manage natural resources, reforest the land, and promote social justice development. From understanding global problems to finding actionable solutions, this book provides a clear path toward making a positive impact on the planet.

Features

• Identifies pressing challenges of sustainability-related issues in Southern Africa.
• Raises awareness of urgent issues through comprehensive analysis of current research and case studies from Southern Africa.
• Analyzes the current state of resource utilization, identifying unsustainable practices and their impact on ecosystems and societies.
• Explores the strong interconnection of environmental, social, and economic factors, emphasizing the importance of an integrated approach to sustainability.
• Proposes innovative solutions and frameworks that promote equitable uses of the world’s resources and sustainable development while addressing planetary challenges.

This book is an excellent resource for professionals, researchers, and academics in the fields of environmental studies, development studies, geography, and African studies, interested in climate change and sustainable development. It's also useful for policymakers and NGOs responsible for and involved with UN SDGs.

Ghita Rezzouk is a researcher at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and a project coordinator for the Planetary Utilization of Sustainability Strategies (PLUS) project. Her research interests include gender and society, cultural identity, religion, and resilience, and she has published several articles on these topics.

Sarita Monjane Henriksen is a visiting professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA. She has been a guest professor at various higher education institutions in Europe and Brazil. She has a PhD in Human Rights, from the University of Salamanca, Spain, and a PhD in Language Policy and Education Planning from Roskilde University, Denmark. She is an associate professor and the Director of Cooperation at UP-Maputo, Mozambique. Her main research interests are language and globalization, migration, mobility, language education policies, etc., and she has published two books recently.

Jörn Ahrens is a professor of Cultural Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology at North-West University, South Africa. He received his PhD in sociology in 1999 from Free University Berlin and his Habilitation in 2006 at Humboldt University Berlin. His main research interests are climate change and society; Southern African societies; violence; popular culture; and theories of modernity. He has published extensively on climate change epistemologies, popular media, and social theory.