Godwell Nhamo
Biographic Data
| ID | 325206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Godwell Nhamo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Godwell |
| FAMILY NAME | Nhamo |
| SIGNATURE | NHAMO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5465-2168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Livelihoods vulnerability and adaptive strategies for coastal communities. A systematic review
Civil society organizations and Covid-19 in Limpopo province, South Africa
The measures instituted by national governments to abate the proliferation of COVID-19 had immediate and dramatic ramifications on most sectors and socio-economic players of the society, including the civil society organizations (CSOs). In view of the important role played by CSOs in assisting national governments to address social and economic vices within communities, it is critical to understand the extent to which they were affected by the pa…
Covid-19 and school teachers in South Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic destabilised the education sector worldwide exposing teachers to significant health risks, while disrupting their core responsibilities. This study explores how the COVID-19 impacted the health, wellbeing and professional responsibilities of educators in South Africa's Limpopo Province, thereby challenging progress toward good health and well-being and quality education as outlined in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 a…
Weather and climate challenges facing urban Mountain National Park destinations
Mountain tourism destinations are important for socio-economic development, ecosystem services and recreational opportunities. However, these destinations are highly vulnerable to weather and climate variations. This study examines the impact of climate variability and changes in tourism in urban mountain destinations, with a specific focus on the Table Mountain National Park. This study employed a mixed-methods approach, utilising primary data f…
Tourists’ perceptions of climate change awareness, impact, and response mechanisms in South African national parks
Climate change threatens tourism through slow onsets and rapid climate-induced events like droughts, rising sea levels, floods, extreme heat, and wildfires, destabilising destinations appeal. This paper examined tourist perceptions of climate change in South African national parks and their responses to these challenges. A quantitative tourist survey (n = 871) was administered in 19 national parks. The data were analysed using descriptive statist…
Mapping coastal and marine research in South Africa
The coastal and marine landscape within national and international space is of significance for human systems, sustainable (economic) development, global changes, and pollution prevention. South Africa occupies a geostrategic position due to its vast maritime trade, extensive and well-endowed coastline, being a continental shelf, having territorial waters, and several exclusive economic zones. Significant research has been done in the coastal and…
Ocean and marine literacy in formal education
Climate change-induced weather extremes and responses in South African National Parks
Using Community Nutrition Gardening as Rural Re-Greening and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
Coping with chronically variable yields of food crops is critical for the survival of farm households in marginal environments where agro-climatic conditions are challenging. As such, to alleviate the effects of climate change, rural households implement various strategies, including community nutrition gardening, to tackle livelihood-related challenges. This study examines the role of community nutrition gardening as a strategy for adapting to c…
Localisation of SDGs in Privately Owned Universities
Seven years of embracing the sustainable development goals
As this article was being finalised, the world was left with less than 7 of the 15 years of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation to 2030. There were still huge gaps in the attainment of the SDGs in institutions of higher learning globally, especially that COVID-19 brought a barrier leading to a known pushback. However, the pandemic did not imply there was no work done prior, during and after COVID-19. This article investigates the …
Climate change perceptions and experiences from tourists visiting popular destinations in South Africa
Popular tourism destinations are not insulated from climate change variability and vulnerability. Conversely, these destinations also contribute to climate change. Although several studies have investigated the climate change-tourism nexus, there remains limited knowledge regarding tourist perceptions of climate change on popular African destinations. This study examines tourist perceptions of climate change at the Sun City Resort, a popular dest…
Covid-19 governance and decision-making at provincial level in South Africa
Globally, there is an unequivocal call to promote good governance at all levels of government through the promotion and development of transparent, effective and accountable institutions. These perspectives remain to be investigated concerning COVID-19 governance at provincial level in South Africa, where provinces play a ‘midwife’ role between national and local government spheres. With new institutions created, and existing ones buttressed, voi…
A comparison of farmers’ perceptions and meteorological data on climate change in northwestern Ghana
Climate change is mostly perceived by smallholder farmers in terms of changes in weather elements such as rainfall and temperature. These changes are typically observed over time in an immediate environment. Studies have largely focused on examining smallholder farmers’ perceptions of climate change, with little attention paid to comparisons between farmers’ perceptions and scientific meteorological data. This study compared smallholder farmers’ …
Students’ awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards the sustainable development goals at the University of South Africa
Purpose University students’ awareness, knowledge and attitude towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contribute to their implementation and localisation. Understanding students’ perspectives in open and distance e-Learning institutions (ODELs) is crucial. This study aims to examine variations in students’ SDG knowledge and awareness across socio-economic characteristics, their engagement in SDGs and their identification of opportunitie…
Academia’s engagement with Sustainable Development Goals
Purpose This study aims to examine academic staff’s engagement with sustainable development goals (SDGs) in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach The triangulation, convergence model of the mixed methods research design was adopted as the strategy for inquiry. A total of 56 questionnaires and 25 interviews were used to collect the data, and this was buttressed by document review and use of secondary data obtained from Scival.…
Tourism resilience and challenges in Limpopo, South Africa
This study investigates the impact, recovery and resilience of COVID-19 on South Africa's Limpopo Province's tourism industry. The study utilises surveys (n = 115) and interviews (n = 50) to examine the impact, recovery, resilience, success and challenges of various tourism-related businesses, including national parks, restaurants, and hotels. Despite minimal government support and significant challenges like erratic utilities, high inflation, an…
The socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 on selected mining companies in Limpopo Province, South Africa
This study explores the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on mining value chains, using a mixed-methods approach. A thematic analysis, based on open-ended survey questions and interviews, was performed to determine the impacts on value chains and employee welfare and determine the coping mechanisms. The survey data, gathered from 408 respondents in Limpopo Province of South Africa, provided quantitative information. Bivariate statistical ana…
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-Covid-19
This study assesses the potential for establishing a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy, post-COVID-19, focusing on Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Utilising the United Nation's Climate-Positive Action Framework, document analysis, and a systematic literature review, it examines these nations' investment in climate action. Findings reveal a decrease in climate funding during the pandemic, with notable gaps in climate fin…
Covid-19, Tourist Destinations and Prospects for Recovery
This book provides practical policies that can be implemented to revive the tourism industry post the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Climate and conservation challenges facing Marakele National Park and their implications for tourism
Due to climate change’s effects, protected areas, particularly national parks, face conservation challenges, negatively impacting tourism. Sustainable tourism requires understanding the climate and conservation challenges in national parks and their implications for tourism. Marakele National Park in South Africa faces climatic and conservation challenges. A purposive and snowball sampling strategy was used to select study participants. An in-dep…
Status quo of sustainable development goals localisation in Zimbabwean universities
This study examines the perceptions of students about SDG localization in Zimbabwean universities. The study uses a mixed methods research design. The results reveal that students perceive the SDGs as significant in university curricula. Only 39% confirm satisfactory or high coverage of SDGs content in their curricula. SDGs familiarity varies per discipline. Various challenges inhibit the localization of SDGs in universities. Lack of resources is…
Tourism and climate change in Africa
Informing Africa's tourism sector responses to the IPCC-AR6's projected climate change impacts remains paramount. This study reviews the evolution of knowledge on climate change and tourism in Africa, examining gaps, scholarship trends and policy issues since the IPCC-AR5 in 2014. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline is used to gather and synthesise the relevant literature. The study observed i…
Covid-19 and the global cruise ship industry
The cruise ship industry was one of the fastest growing subsectors of the tourism industry before the advent of COVID-19. This paper examines the prospects and recovery of the cruise ship industry from the devastating impacts of COVID-19 on the industry. The study relied mostly on event study and secondary data, including survey data from authoritative sources, data from representative organisations, news reports and academic literature. The resu…
Cyclones in Southern Africa
Addressing women in climate change policies
This Article responds to claims in the literature that gender mainstreaming is lacking in international and national climate change policy regimes. A scan of climate change policies from selected east and southern African countries was conducted to assess whether climate change policies include gender and women. The focus on women is deliberate given women's greater vulnerability to climate change impacts than men. The research analysis used a fr…
Tourism and climate change in Africa
Informing Africa's tourism sector responses to the IPCC-AR6's projected climate change impacts remains paramount. This study reviews the evolution of knowledge on climate change and tourism in Africa, examining gaps, scholarship trends and policy issues since the IPCC-AR5 in 2014. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline is used to gather and synthesise the relevant literature. The study observed i…
New Global Sustainable Development Agenda
This paper focuses on how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may ‘play out for Africa’, an element including the interfacing of the SDGs and Africa's Agenda 2063. Through critical document and discourse analysis, the paper deconstructs meaning from the texts. What emerges is that there are ‘the good’ and ‘the bad’ in the SDGs in terms of where Africa wishes to be. Issues that include gender and women, education, desire to prioritize Africa …
Co-Leadership in Climate Change
The climate change (CC) discourse has moved from the dominance of science into other contesting spaces that include politics, economics, religion, social justice and the business arena. Two questions are addressed in this paper: (1) which actors (human), actants (non-human) and networks have been and are shaping the CC narrative? (2) Who could be the appropriate leaders and leadership models to address the challenges associated with CC in our tim…
Sustainable Development Goals localisation in the tourism sector
Women's needs in new global sustainable development policy agendas
This paper provides an audit of how the needs of women are addressed in new global sustainable development policy agendas. The policy agendas audited include the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD), the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework. An auditing matrix of 21 indicators was developed through a critical discourse analysis. Among the indicators identified were: violence against women; capacity building and access to technology;…
Flooding trends and their impacts on coastal communities of Western Cape Province, South Africa
Climate variability, change and potential impacts on tourism
Dawn of a New Climate Order
A new climate order was confirmed at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009. The new climate order ushered in collaborative frameworks among the USA and the BASIC Group made up of Brazil, South Africa, India and China. Collaboration among the identified countries resulted in three sets of partnerships, namely: the USA-India-China (UIC Group); the BASIC Group; and IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum). The UIC partners…
Macroeconomics, (Adult) Education, and Poverty Eradication in Southern Africa
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-Covid-19
This study assesses the potential for establishing a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy, post-COVID-19, focusing on Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Utilising the United Nation's Climate-Positive Action Framework, document analysis, and a systematic literature review, it examines these nations' investment in climate action. Findings reveal a decrease in climate funding during the pandemic, with notable gaps in climate fin…
Opportunities for women in the green economy and environmental sectors
South Africa's National Environmental Management Act (Act 107 of 1998) recognises the important role of women and youth in environmental management and development. To this end, significant strides have been made by the country in gender mainstreaming. The “Environment Sector Gender Framework” and the “Framework and Strategy Toward Gender Mainstreaming in the Environment Sector 2016–2021” are some of the policy frameworks that have been implement…
Tourism business operators' perceptions, knowledge and attitudes towards climate change at Victoria Falls
Climate change remains one of the biggest challenges facing the world today and is characterised by extreme weather events such as heatwaves, extreme droughts and floods. Regardless of the threat posed by climate change to the tourism business, there are still gaps in tourism business perceptions and knowledge of climate change. This research investigated tourism business operators’ perceptions, knowledge and attitude towards climate change at Vi…
What gets measured gets done! Towards an Afro-barometer for tracking progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5
What gets measured gets done! This saying implies that without quantifying what needs to be done, doing it may not be possible. This term is relevant to how African countries will implement the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, particularly in tracking progress on SDG 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. During the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments failed to establish baseline…
Translating mitigation measures proposed in environmental impact statements into planning conditions
Access to Weather Forecasting and Early Warning Information by Communal Farmers in Seke and Murewa Districts, Zimbabwe
In the context of current climate variability and the projected climate change there is need to strengthen the resilience of communities particularly those whose livelihoods are highly sensitive to change. Climate change is likely to result in increased frequency and intensity of weather and climate extremes. The first objective of the present research was to analyze how communal farmers in Seke and Murewa districts of Zimbabwe accessed weather f…
Macroeconomics, (Adult) Education, and Poverty Eradication in Southern Africa
Regulating Plastics Waste, Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Challenges in South Africa
Climate change
African governments face increasing pressure from major export destinations, primarily former colonial and slave-owning countries, to be climate change compliant. This will certainly be on display at the upcoming December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which will seek to strengthen climate change rules agreed on in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, and adopt new protocols on global climate change regulation. Climate change is a…
Co-Leadership in Climate Change
The climate change (CC) discourse has moved from the dominance of science into other contesting spaces that include politics, economics, religion, social justice and the business arena. Two questions are addressed in this paper: (1) which actors (human), actants (non-human) and networks have been and are shaping the CC narrative? (2) Who could be the appropriate leaders and leadership models to address the challenges associated with CC in our tim…
Dawn of a New Climate Order
A new climate order was confirmed at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009. The new climate order ushered in collaborative frameworks among the USA and the BASIC Group made up of Brazil, South Africa, India and China. Collaboration among the identified countries resulted in three sets of partnerships, namely: the USA-India-China (UIC Group); the BASIC Group; and IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum). The UIC partners…
South Africa in climate negotiations
South Africa surprised many when it pledged to reduce emissions by 34 per cent in 2020 and 42 per cent in 2025 a day before the Copenhagen Climate Summit of December 2009 (COP15). The position taken by South Africa was in conflict with that of the Africa Group. South Africa was also involved in crafting the Copenhagen Accord, a political agreement concluded outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to address the interests…
Copenhagen 18/12
The date, 18 December 2009, left the world perturbed, as global leaders failed to reach consensus on a legally binding climate deal in Copenhagen. Since Bali 2007, much work had been done on preparing for a fair, ambitious and legally binding climate deal. Accordingly, the non-binding Copenhagen (political) Accord was concluded paving the way for further talks in Mexico in 2010. However, the African continent maintained that it had received a raw…
Redd+ and the global climate policy negotiating regimes
Prior to developments in Copenhagen in 2009 and Cancun in 2010, global climate policy negotiations seldom culminated in concrete decisions concerning ways in which Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) could be linked to sustainable development and carbon markets in developing countries, such as those in some parts of Africa.That changed with the expansion of the REDD initiative, to REDD+. Key arguments in the discus…
Green economy readiness in South Africa
Readiness! This is a concept interchanged with preparedness and, many assume, adequate knowledge. Simple as it may be, readiness denotes a complex interaction of parameters and conditionalities required for an uptake of a phenomenon – in the context of this article, green economy transition. Following deliberations to and from Rio + 20, there is no doubt the world is set to undertake green economy as a means to attaining sustainable development, …
From sustainable development through green growth to sustainable development plus
From sustainable development (SD) through green growth to sustainable development plus (SD+)! Does the ‘+’ really matter? This is the question that brings life to this article and the answer is: YES, it does. The ‘+’ makes a huge difference especially for developing countries such as those from Africa that for a long time have not been fully brought on board in shaping global discourses and the preferred future global development agenda. This art…
Addressing women in climate change policies
This Article responds to claims in the literature that gender mainstreaming is lacking in international and national climate change policy regimes. A scan of climate change policies from selected east and southern African countries was conducted to assess whether climate change policies include gender and women. The focus on women is deliberate given women's greater vulnerability to climate change impacts than men. The research analysis used a fr…
Access to Weather Forecasting and Early Warning Information by Communal Farmers in Seke and Murewa Districts, Zimbabwe
In the context of current climate variability and the projected climate change there is need to strengthen the resilience of communities particularly those whose livelihoods are highly sensitive to change. Climate change is likely to result in increased frequency and intensity of weather and climate extremes. The first objective of the present research was to analyze how communal farmers in Seke and Murewa districts of Zimbabwe accessed weather f…
Translating mitigation measures proposed in environmental impact statements into planning conditions
An Investigation into the Household Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Makonde Communal Lands of Zimbabwe
This study investigated household climate change adaptation strategies being adopted by the Makonde Communal farmers in Zimbabwe. In terms of methodology, a pluralist approach was employed to derive knowledge about the multi-dimensional context of the issue of peasant community responses to climate change. Findings suggested that the livelihoods of the local population heavily depend on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture. The community un…
Paris (COP21) Agreement
Climate policy documents are more interesting for what they leave out than what they contain. Using the COP21 negotiating texts, this article analyses the Paris Agreement to determine the good, the bad and the ugly of this ‘landmark’ document regarding loss and damage (L&D), adaptation and finance. The article establishes that among the good is that we have a universal deal in place that speaks to L&D and adaptation. the bad remains that developi…
Benchmarking the effectiveness of mitigation measures to the quality of environmental impact statements
New Global Sustainable Development Agenda
This paper focuses on how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may ‘play out for Africa’, an element including the interfacing of the SDGs and Africa's Agenda 2063. Through critical document and discourse analysis, the paper deconstructs meaning from the texts. What emerges is that there are ‘the good’ and ‘the bad’ in the SDGs in terms of where Africa wishes to be. Issues that include gender and women, education, desire to prioritize Africa …
One global deal from Paris 2015
This article analyses the 2015 Paris Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, with a focus on mitigation. The history of climate negotiations and the mitigation agenda shows the divide between developed and developing countries, with the latter insisting that the former, having caused the problem, need to do more to reduce carbon emissions to address climate change. However, as some emerging economies had continued to emit more…
Green procurement in South Africa
This paper sets an objective to analyse legislative provisions for green procurement in South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities in the context of climate change and sustainable development. The main methods for data generation were interviews and document analysis. There were 30 interviews granted by among others, procurement officers, town planners and economic development specialists. In addition, 51 policy documents were retrieved, followed…
Climate change adaptation and the African fisheries
Climate variability, change and potential impacts on tourism
What gets measured gets done! Towards an Afro-barometer for tracking progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5
What gets measured gets done! This saying implies that without quantifying what needs to be done, doing it may not be possible. This term is relevant to how African countries will implement the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, particularly in tracking progress on SDG 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. During the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments failed to establish baseline…
Women's needs in new global sustainable development policy agendas
This paper provides an audit of how the needs of women are addressed in new global sustainable development policy agendas. The policy agendas audited include the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD), the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework. An auditing matrix of 21 indicators was developed through a critical discourse analysis. Among the indicators identified were: violence against women; capacity building and access to technology;…
UNFCCC decision on agriculture
The Talanoa Dialogue on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change focuses on taking stock of progress towards the long-term goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement, including refining (intended) nationally determined contributions [(I)NDCs]. The Talanoa Dialogue focuses on three questions, namely: Where are we? Where do we want to go? And, how do we get there? Given the resentment regarding the manner in which some (I)NDCs have been craf…
Climate change and potential impacts on tourism
Political science (43 works) · Geography (38 works) · Economics (34 works) · Climate change (26 works) · Business (25 works) · Economic growth (23 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Environmental resource management (17 works) · Sustainable development (16 works) · Sociology (15 works)