Municipalities represent a key opportunity for implementing local adaptation to the impacts of climate change. Most research has focused on the barriers to climate change adaptation, and little research exists that considers the conditions under which a municipality is able to initiate the...

This article explores the thinking that has, and is, stifling the ability of South Africans to take full advantage of the resources and capacities available to create safety within South Africa. It further investigates what might be done to develop ways of thinking and acting that respond...

This paper considers why the housing subsidy programme in South Africa has had so little impact on poverty reduction despite its scale and generous funding. It discusses how this was linked to the government's conception of housing, the institutions involved and who controlled funding flows for...

This contribution focuses on a policy paradox, a failed attempt to introduce a Solar Water Heater bylaw in a South African city in spite of much initial support, both politically and professionally. The paper combines a policy design and a nodal governance perspective to explain why the law...

While policing has always been plural, states have for several centuries sought to realize an ideal of a state monopoly over the governance of security. These aspirations have their roots in the political thought of Hobbes (among others) who wrote at the time of the Westphalian Peace of 1648....