Pippin Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3707427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pippin Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pippin |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3716-1206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond the Policy Void
This study investigates how local conservation initiatives in the Cape Floristic Region’s urban areas are governed and how governance aligns with South African conservation policies. Using a qualitative case study approach, it examines three community-driven projects through semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, including municipal officials, project managers, and volunteers. Governance effectiveness was assessed using Bennett and Sat…
Forging just ecologies
We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed exampl…
A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities
This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology for and with the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecology, and we present a framework for how the field may continue this shift. We conceptualize that urba…
The relational shift in urban ecology
This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conclude that urban ecology as a science can better contribute to positive futures by focusing on relationships, rather than prioritizing urban structures. Insights from other relational disciplines, such as political ecology, governance, urban design, and conservation also contribute.…
The nitrogen budget of an urban watershed
Equity and Viability in Scholarly Publishing
Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities
Bux, Q., P. Anderson, and P. J. O'Farrell. 2021. Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities. Ecology and Society 26(3):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12498-260304
Post-apartheid ecologies in the City of Cape Town
Historic herbarium specimens as biocultural assets
Globally there is a need for protected areas to conserve both biodiversity and heritage. Historic specimen localities, although significant to botanists, are not known or recognized under the global heritage umbrella; yet they form an important component of the protected area landscape. We aimed to articulate the conservation and heritage value of herbarium specimens, and make the links between people, botanical culture and nature explicit in ord…
Horizon scanning for South African biodiversity
CityLab reflections and evolutions
Applied research has evolved to play an important role in understanding and reorienting relationships between different knowledge partnerships in urban sustainability. This paper reflects on experiences from the global South on knowledge co-production experiments through ‘CityLabs’, which are forums for bringing together different knowledge brokers (particularly government and academia) to co-produce policy-relevant urban knowledge. Each CityLab …
Urban tinkering
Cities are currently experiencing serious, multifaceted impacts from global environmental change, especially climate change, and the degree to which they will need to cope with and adapt to such challenges will continue to increase. A complex systems approach inspired by evolutionary theory can inform strategies for policies and interventions to deal with growing urban vulnerabilities. Such an approach would guide the design of new (and redesign …
Brokering communities of knowledge and practice
An Ecological View of the History of the City of Cape Town
Rapid global urbanization and the knowledge that ecological systems underpin the future sustainability and resilience of our cities, make an understanding of urban ecology critical. The way humans engage with ecological processes within cities is highly complex, and both from a social and ecological perspective these engagements cannot be interpreted meaningfully on the basis of a single timeframe. Historical analyses offer useful insights into t…
Insights and Opportunities Offered by a Rapid Ecosystem Service Assessment in Promoting a Conservation Agenda in an Urban Biodiversity Hotspot
O’Farrell, P. J., P. M. L. Anderson, D. C. Le Maitre, and P. M. Holmes. 2012. Insights and opportunities offered by a rapid ecosystem service assessment in promoting a conservation agenda in an urban biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Society 17(3): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04886-170327
Urban Ecological and Social-Ecological Research in the City of Cape Town
Anderson, P. and T. Elmqvist 2012. Urban ecological and social-ecological research in the City of Cape Town: insights emerging from an urban ecology CityLab. Ecology and Society 17(4): 23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05076-170423
Sustainable multifunctional landscapes
Urban tinkering
Cities are currently experiencing serious, multifaceted impacts from global environmental change, especially climate change, and the degree to which they will need to cope with and adapt to such challenges will continue to increase. A complex systems approach inspired by evolutionary theory can inform strategies for policies and interventions to deal with growing urban vulnerabilities. Such an approach would guide the design of new (and redesign …
A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities
This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology for and with the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecology, and we present a framework for how the field may continue this shift. We conceptualize that urba…
The relational shift in urban ecology
This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conclude that urban ecology as a science can better contribute to positive futures by focusing on relationships, rather than prioritizing urban structures. Insights from other relational disciplines, such as political ecology, governance, urban design, and conservation also contribute.…
Horizon scanning for South African biodiversity
CityLab reflections and evolutions
Applied research has evolved to play an important role in understanding and reorienting relationships between different knowledge partnerships in urban sustainability. This paper reflects on experiences from the global South on knowledge co-production experiments through ‘CityLabs’, which are forums for bringing together different knowledge brokers (particularly government and academia) to co-produce policy-relevant urban knowledge. Each CityLab …
Forging just ecologies
We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed exampl…
Brokering communities of knowledge and practice
Insights and Opportunities Offered by a Rapid Ecosystem Service Assessment in Promoting a Conservation Agenda in an Urban Biodiversity Hotspot
O’Farrell, P. J., P. M. L. Anderson, D. C. Le Maitre, and P. M. Holmes. 2012. Insights and opportunities offered by a rapid ecosystem service assessment in promoting a conservation agenda in an urban biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Society 17(3): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04886-170327
Urban Ecological and Social-Ecological Research in the City of Cape Town
Anderson, P. and T. Elmqvist 2012. Urban ecological and social-ecological research in the City of Cape Town: insights emerging from an urban ecology CityLab. Ecology and Society 17(4): 23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05076-170423
Sustainable multifunctional landscapes
An Ecological View of the History of the City of Cape Town
Rapid global urbanization and the knowledge that ecological systems underpin the future sustainability and resilience of our cities, make an understanding of urban ecology critical. The way humans engage with ecological processes within cities is highly complex, and both from a social and ecological perspective these engagements cannot be interpreted meaningfully on the basis of a single timeframe. Historical analyses offer useful insights into t…
Insights and Opportunities Offered by a Rapid Ecosystem Service Assessment in Promoting a Conservation Agenda in an Urban Biodiversity Hotspot
O’Farrell, P. J., P. M. L. Anderson, D. C. Le Maitre, and P. M. Holmes. 2012. Insights and opportunities offered by a rapid ecosystem service assessment in promoting a conservation agenda in an urban biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Society 17(3): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04886-170327
Urban Ecological and Social-Ecological Research in the City of Cape Town
Anderson, P. and T. Elmqvist 2012. Urban ecological and social-ecological research in the City of Cape Town: insights emerging from an urban ecology CityLab. Ecology and Society 17(4): 23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05076-170423
Brokering communities of knowledge and practice
Urban tinkering
Cities are currently experiencing serious, multifaceted impacts from global environmental change, especially climate change, and the degree to which they will need to cope with and adapt to such challenges will continue to increase. A complex systems approach inspired by evolutionary theory can inform strategies for policies and interventions to deal with growing urban vulnerabilities. Such an approach would guide the design of new (and redesign …
CityLab reflections and evolutions
Applied research has evolved to play an important role in understanding and reorienting relationships between different knowledge partnerships in urban sustainability. This paper reflects on experiences from the global South on knowledge co-production experiments through ‘CityLabs’, which are forums for bringing together different knowledge brokers (particularly government and academia) to co-produce policy-relevant urban knowledge. Each CityLab …
Post-apartheid ecologies in the City of Cape Town
Historic herbarium specimens as biocultural assets
Globally there is a need for protected areas to conserve both biodiversity and heritage. Historic specimen localities, although significant to botanists, are not known or recognized under the global heritage umbrella; yet they form an important component of the protected area landscape. We aimed to articulate the conservation and heritage value of herbarium specimens, and make the links between people, botanical culture and nature explicit in ord…
Horizon scanning for South African biodiversity
Equity and Viability in Scholarly Publishing
Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities
Bux, Q., P. Anderson, and P. J. O'Farrell. 2021. Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities. Ecology and Society 26(3):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12498-260304
The nitrogen budget of an urban watershed
Forging just ecologies
We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed exampl…
A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities
This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology for and with the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecology, and we present a framework for how the field may continue this shift. We conceptualize that urba…
The relational shift in urban ecology
This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conclude that urban ecology as a science can better contribute to positive futures by focusing on relationships, rather than prioritizing urban structures. Insights from other relational disciplines, such as political ecology, governance, urban design, and conservation also contribute.…
Beyond the Policy Void
This study investigates how local conservation initiatives in the Cape Floristic Region’s urban areas are governed and how governance aligns with South African conservation policies. Using a qualitative case study approach, it examines three community-driven projects through semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, including municipal officials, project managers, and volunteers. Governance effectiveness was assessed using Bennett and Sat…
Ecology (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Biodiversity (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (6 works)