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Participant Information SA-YSSP

|Research Themes |Participants |Institution |Project Title |Email |Phone |

|1. Extract of Africa: |Supervisors: | | | | |

|Towards the equitable and |Dr Ikechukwu Umejesi |Department of Sociology, University of South | |umejei@unisa.ac.za |+27 124 296.475 |

|ecologically-sound | |Africa, Pretoria, South Africa | | | |

|governance of mining and | | | | | |

|drilling |Prof Michael Thompson |Risk, Policy and Vulnerability Programme, | |thompson@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7287 |

| | |International Institute for Applied Systems | | | |

| | |Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. | | | |

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| |Scholars: |Institute for Water Research, Rhodes | | | |

| |Mr Emmanuel Vellemu |University, South Africa |Understanding acid mine drainage (AMD), |evellemu@ |+27 714.820.572 |

| | | |salinity, catchment system | | |

| | |Department of Geography, University of | | | |

| |Ms Maria Rivera |Maryland, USA |Discovering the opportunity costs of |Maria.rivera.umd@ |+11 202 316 1614 |

| | | |competing land uses in the Virunga National| | |

| | | |Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo | | |

|2. Social acceptance of |Supervisors: | | | | |

|land use requirements for |Dr Vain Jarbandhan, |Department of Public Governance, University of| |vainj@uj.ac.za |+27 115.502 905 |

|renewable energy in South | |Johannesburg; South Africa | | | |

|Africa: Critical | | | | | |

|considerations | |Risk, Policy and Vulnerability Programme, | | | |

| |Dr Nadejda Komendantova |International Institute for Applied Systems | |komendan@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7285 |

| | |Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| | |Institute for Environment and Sustainable | | | |

| |Scholars: |Development, University of Antwerp, Belgium | | | |

| |Mr Elvis Nkoana | |Climate change adaptation and sustainable |nkoana.elvis6@ |+27 60 625 3201 |

| | | |development: An action research approach in| | |

| | | |Limpopo Province, South Africa. | | |

|3. Sustainable cities – |Supervisors: | | | | |

|Cities as forces for good |Dr Dillip Das |Department of Civil Engineering, Central | |ddas@cut.ac.za |+27 51 507 3647 |

|in the environment | |University of Technology, Free State, | | | |

| | |Bloemfontein, South Africa | | | |

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| |Prof Michael Thompson |Risk, Policy and Vulnerability Programme, | | | |

| | |International Institute for Applied Systems | | | |

| | |Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria | |thompson@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7287 |

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| |Scholars: |Department of Architecture and Planning, | | | |

| |Mr Tejas Rawal |Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, |Planning for sustainable transportation |tejas2509@ |+91 750 020 7427 |

| | |Uttrakhand State, India |system in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu,| |+91 937 585 3831 |

| | | |India | | |

| | |School of Geography, Archaeology and | | | |

| | |Environmental Studies, University of the |Urban environmental problems: Social and | | |

| |Mr Serge Kubanza |Witwatersrand, South Africa |environmental injustice in solid waste |Nzalalemba.Kubanza@students.wits.ac.za |+27 79 818 2996; |

| | | |management in Kinshasa, the Democratic | |+27 79 873 5066 |

| | | |Republic of Congo | | |

|4 (GAINS) model for |Supervisors: | | | | |

|integrated local and |Prof Harold Annegarn |Department of Geography, Environmental | |hannegarn@uj.ac.za |+27 11 559 3927 |

|regional air quality and | |Management and Energy Studies, University of | | | |

|climate modelling in | |Johannesburg, South Africa | | | |

|Southern Africa | | | | | |

| | |Mitigation of Air Pollution & Greenhouse Gases| | | |

| |Dr Peter Rafaj |Programme, International Institute for Applied| |rafaj@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7332 |

| | |Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| | |Faculty of Law, Johannes Kepler University | | | |

| |Scholars: |Linz, Austria | | | |

| |Ms Carmen Klausbruckner | |Southern Africa's energy policies including|carmen.kb@gmx.at |+43 06 991 913 5501 |

| | | |the legal framework | | |

| | | |in the field of local and regional air | | |

| | |Department of Environmental Engineering, |quality | | |

| | |Georgia Institute of Technology, USA | | | |

| |Mr Lucas Henneman | |Impacts of emission changes on air quality |lhenneman@gatech.edu |+1 404 788 2161 |

| | | |and acute health effects in the Southeast | | |

|5. Mitigation of air |Supervisors: | | | | |

|pollution and greenhouse |Prof Charles Mbohwa |Department of Quality and Operations | |cmbohwa@uj.ac.za |+27 11 559 1202 |

|gases | |Management, Faculty of Engineering and Built | | | |

| | |Environment, University of Johannesburg, South| | | |

| | |Africa | | | |

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| |Dr Manfred Strubegger |Energy Programme, International Institute for | |strub@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7202 |

| | |Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| | |Energy Systems Programme, International | | | |

| |Prof Holger Rogner |Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, | |rogner@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7426 |

| | |Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| |Scholars: |School of Business, Society and Engineering, | | | |

| |Mr Leonard Azimoh |Malardalen University, Sweden |Off-Grid Energy: An assessment of the |leonard.azimoh@mdh.se, |+46 076 976 5939 |

| | | |sustainability and development impact of |lcazimoh@. | |

| | | |South African rural electrification | | |

| | |Department of Industrial Engineering, | | | |

| | |University of Pretoria, South Africa |Modelling an effective energy mix for | | |

| |Mr Shingirirai Mutanga | |developing economics using spatial system |smutanga@ |+27 73 163 1827 |

| | | |dynamics: The case of Biofuels in the SADC| | |

| | | |Region | | |

| | |Department of Energy Science | | | |

| | |Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea |Assessing Climate Change Impacts on | | |

| |Mr Munsu Lee | |agricultural systems in Sub-Saharan Africa:|munsu@skku.edu |+82 103 903 1983 |

| | | |Multi-dimensional approach | | |

|7. Dynamical Systems in |Supervisors | | | | |

|Ecology: Models, Analysis |Prof Jacek Banasiak |School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer| |Banasiak@ukzn.ac.za |+27 31 260 1363 |

|and Simulations | |Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, | | | |

| | |South Africa | | | |

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| |Dr Alexey Davydov |Advanced Systems Analysis Programme, | | | |

| | |International Institute for Applied Systems | |davydov@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7514 |

| | |Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| |Scholars: |Faculty of Technical Physics, Informatics, | |aleksandrafalkiewicz@ | |

| |Ms Aleksandra Falkiewics |Applied Mathematics, Institute of |Asymptotic Behaviour of Dynamical Systems | |+48 504 801 594 |

| | |Mathemathics, Lodz University of Technology, |on Complex Networks | | |

| | |Lodz, Poland | | | |

| | | | |apondondo@; | |

| | |Centre of Doctoral Formation in Mathematics | |apondondo@yahoo.fr | |

| |Mr Apollinaire Ndodo |and Computer Sciences University Of Kinshasa, |Global analysis of African human | |+24 381 380 1190 |

| | |Republic of Congo |Trypanosoma: Application to D.R. Congo case| | |

|8. Modelling mechanisms |Supervisors: | | | | |

|influencing above- and |Prof Wijnand Swart |Department of Plant Sciences, University of | |swartwj@ufs.ac.za |+27 51 401 2383 |

|below-ground diversity and| |the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa | | | |

|productivity in plant | | | | | |

|communities | |Evolution and Ecology Programme, International| | | |

| |Dr Gergely Boza |Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | |boza@iiasa.ac.at |+36 30 318 6899 |

| | |(IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria and Department of | | | |

| | |Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical | | | |

| | |Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, | | | |

| | |Hungary | | | |

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| | |Evolution and Ecology Programme, International| | | |

| | |Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, | | | |

| |Dr Ulf Dieckman |Laxenburg, Austria | |dieckmann@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7386 |

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| | |Department of Plant Sciences, University of | | | |

| |Scholars: |the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa | | | |

| |Mrs Anette Alleman | |The effect of herbicide formulations and |2004160533@ufs4life.ac.za |+27.833.600.207 |

| | | |soybean genotype on the relationship | | |

| | |Department of Plant Sciences, University of |between beneficial organisms and root | | |

| | |the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa |pathogens | | |

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| |Mr Michael Chung | |The influence of sorghum root physiology on|chungm@ufs.ac.za |+27 724.380.943 |

| | |Department of Plant Sciences, University of |rhizosphere interactions and their effect | | |

| | |the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa |on incidence of root disease | | |

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| | | |Biotic and abiotic interactions of above | | |

| |Ms Marcele Vermeulen | |and below ground parts of an allelopathic |marcele.vermeulen81@ |+27 828.165.797 |

| | | |plant, using Amaranthus cruentus as a model| | |

|9. Resilience Measures in |Supervisors: | | | | |

|Ecosystems and |Dr Ursula Scharler |School of Life Sciences, University of | |scharler@ukzn.ac.za |+27 31 360 1605 |

|Socio-Economic Networks | |KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa | | | |

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| |Prof Brian Fath |Department of Biological Sciences, Towson | |bfath@towson.edu |+43 223 680 7605 |

| | |University, Towson, Maryland, USA Advanced | | | |

| | |Systems Analysis Programme, International | | | |

| | |Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, | | | |

| | |Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| |Scholars: |School of Environment, Beijing Normal | | | |

| |Ms Linlin Xia |University, China |City ecological design: based on the |linlinxia@mail.bnu. |+86 15 90 102 8355 |

| | | |spatial distribution of carbon metabolism | | |

| | | |network | | |

| | |Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati | | | |

| |Mr Arnab Banerjee |University, India |Variation in Certain physico-chemical |aranya.arnab@ |+91 346 326 1268 |

| | | |factors and plant on dynamics of a | |+91 890 256 8282 |

| | | |reservoir: A modelling approach | | |

|10. Stability and |Supervisors | | | | |

|Complexity of Adaptive |Prof Cang Hui |Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of | |chui@sun.ac.za |+27 21 808 3413 |

|Ecological Networks | |Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, | | | |

| | |South Africa | | | |

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| |Dr Ulf Dieckman |Evolution and Ecology Programme, International| |dieckmann@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7386 |

| | |Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, | | | |

| | |Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| |Scholars : | | | | |

| |Mr Alan de Barros |Applied Ecology – Conservation Biology, |Using probabilistic models derived from |alanbiology@ |+55 113 683 3777 |

| | |Forestry Department University of Sao Paulo |jaguar movements to enhance conservation of| | |

| | |-USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil |endangered populations in the Atlantic | | |

| | | |Forest | | |

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| |Mr Emmanuel Sweke |Marine Bioresource and Environmental |Social-ecological studies to sustain local |esweke@ |+81 13 840 5591 |

| | |Science/Fisheries Science, Hokkaido |fisheries in North-Eastern Hokkaido, Japan | | |

| | |University, Japan | | | |

|11. Water futures and |Supervisors: | | | | |

|solutions: Climate change |Prof Yali Woyessa |Department of Civil Engineering, Central | |ywoyessa@cut.ac.za |+27 51 507 3452 |

|and water security in | |University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South | | | |

|Africa | |Africa | | | |

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| |Dr David Wiberg |Water Programme, International Institute for | |wiberg@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7588 |

| | |Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, | | | |

| | |Austria | | | |

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| |Dr Sylvia Tramberend |Water Programme, International Institute for | | | |

| | |Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, | |trambers@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7401 |

| | |Austria | | | |

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| |Scholars: | | | | |

| |Mr Alois Katiti |Department of Geography and Environmental |Satellite-based estimation of |katilo78@; |+27 84 030 3939 |

| | |Science, University of Fort Hare, South Africa|evapotranspiration in the Green Scheme |katilo78@ | |

| | | |Irrigation (Projects) of Namibia | | |

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| | |Water Resource and Environmental Engineering, |Climate change impact on fresh water | | |

| |Mr Sifan Koriche |Jimma University, Ethiopia | |numarsanifa@; |+25 10 91 188 0570 |

| | | |India water-energy-material nexus: |Sifan.korich@ju.edu.et | |

| | |Department of Energy & Environment, TERI |physical, economic and policy implications | | |

| |Ms Shelly Borga |University, India | |shbogr@ |+91 117 180 0222 |

|12. Water futures and |Supervisors: | | | | |

|solutions: Developing |Dr Thokozani Kanyerere |Water Programme, Department of Earth Sciences,| |tkanyerere@uwc.ac.za |+27 21 959 9292 |

|sustained solutions to | |University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, | | | |

|improve urban water | |South Africa | | | |

|security in South Africa | | | | | |

| |Dr David Wiberg |Water Programme, International Institute for | |wiberg@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7588 |

| | |Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, | | | |

| | |Austria | | | |

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| |Dr Sylvia Tramberend |Water Programme, International Institute for | |trambers@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7401 |

| | |Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, | | | |

| | |Austria | | | |

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| |Scholars: | | | | |

| |Mr Mayank Prakash |Department of Population Policies and |A study of water-sanitation-hygiene, |mayankprakash12@ |+91 808 056 8484 |

| | |Programmes, International Institute for |related morbidity and its Socio-economic | | |

| | |Population Science, Mumbai, India |Impact on the Slum Dwellers of Mumbai | | |

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| | | |Structural control of groundwater flow | | |

| |Ms Portia Mokoena |Department of Earth Science, University of the|regimes and groundwater geochemistry in the|mokoena53@ |+27 21 959 2858 |

| | |Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa |Bredasdorp region of western cape province | | |

|13. Demographic |Supervisors: | | | | |

|differential vulnerability|Prof Andre Pelser |Department of Sociology, University of the | |Pelseraj@ufs.ac.za |+27 51 401 2653 |

|to environmental change | |Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa | | | |

|and climate variability in| | | | | |

|sub-Saharan Africa | |World Population Programme, International | | | |

| |Dr Raya Muttarak |Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | |muttarak@iiasa.ac.at |+43 223 680 7329 |

| | |(IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria | | | |

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| | |Department of Economics, Faculty of Social | | | |

| |Scholars: |Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway | | | |

| |Mr Martin Flatoe | |Female-headed households, land ownership, |martin.flato@econ.uio.no |+47 97 66 5326 |

| | |School of Geography, Archaeology and |and vulnerability | | |

| | |Environmental Studies, University of the |to climate change in South Africa | | |

| | |Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa | | | |

| |Mrs Mantsebo Letsie | |Vulnerability to climate change and |mantsebol@ |+27 71 513 8960 |

| | | |variability on crop yields and implications| | |

| | | |on household welfare in Lesotho | | |

|14. Migration Trends in |Supervisors: | | |maraisjgl@ufs.ac.za |+27 51 401 2978 |

|Post-Apartheid South |Prof Lochner Marais |Centre for Development Support, University of | | | |

|Africa | |the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa | | | |

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| | |Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global | | | |

| |Dr. Guy Abel |Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna, | |guy.abel@oeaw.ac.at |+43 151 581 7723 |

| | |Austria | | | |

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| |Scholar: |School of Applied Human Sciences, College of | | | |

| |Mr Ganzamungu Zihindula |Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, |Access to Health care Services by Refugees |gzihindula@ |+27 73 496 2878; +27 78 496|

| | |Durban, South Africa |in South Africa: A case study of the | |2878 |

| | | |Congolese community living in the city of | | |

| | | |Durban | | |

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