Zarina Patel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zarina Patel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zarina |
| FAMILY NAME | Patel |
| SIGNATURE | PATEL Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5986-5653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Black African youth and homelessness in Toronto
This qualitative narrative study investigates how social services among African immigrant youth in Toronto can be reimagined and provided in intersectional ways that are just and responsive to their specific and unique needs. The study interviewed 6 African Youths living in Toronto. The study employed an eclectic theory to argue for reimagining of policy that drive homelessness in Canada. The themes that came out of this study are: Homelessness i…
Advancing just and sustainable urban transitions: Strengthening the role(s) of African universities
The distinctiveness of urban processes and dynamics in Africa are of global significance. Achieving sustainable transitions in African cities must necessarily engage with theory and practice, which are derived out of context, and applied in systems and structures that are not globally understood. As sites of knowledge production, universities on the continent have a key role to play in addressing Sustainable Development Goal 11, which seeks to ma…
Fostering transdisciplinary research for sustainability in the Global South: Pathways to impact for funding programmes
Advancing global sustainable development hinges on strengthening the connections between science, society, and policy, as well as addressing existing science inequalities. Research funding programmes play a pivotal role in this context, but little is known about how they can actively nurture required transformations of the science systems. In this paper, we investigate how science funders can actively promote science-society-policy interactions t…
In pursuit of just sustainability: Decision-making and conflicting rationalities in government-led housing projects
Social justice and environmental sustainability are often joint policy objectives, however, achieving the dual goal of just sustainability has proved difficult in both theory and practice. Scholars argue that a key challenge is balancing trade-offs between sustainability and justice objectives. This is evident within government-led housing, where there is little consensus regarding how to balance the housing needs within the context of existing u…
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities
This paper provides a distinctive analysis of the value of international intermediation alliances for co-production, based on the way they operate in practice. While much attention is paid to ideal or normative models of co-production, there is less understanding of the complexities that pervade co-production practices in specific contexts or how this shapes outcomes. Despite longstanding critiques and reflection, international partnerships can r…
Exploring the role of transdisciplinary learning for navigating climate risks in African cities: The case of Lusaka, Zambia
Reconstituting Geography for the 21st century
The potential and pitfalls of co-producing urban knowledge: Rethinking spaces of engagement
Securing sustainable and just transition pathways in cities is recognised as key to addressing global environmental challenges. There is increasing acceptance that transformative change in cities must be shaped by the co-production of knowledge between diverse partners. The creation of spaces of collaboration, referred to in the literature as 'third spaces', is integral to such co-production of knowledge. However, evidence to support a direct rel…
Speaking for the trees: A Study of the Relationship Between Discourse, Power and Organisational Culture in Competing Constructions of Nature
In order to demonstrate the effects of competing constructions of nature by different interest groups, this article describes a dispute in Cape Town, South Africa, through the lens of cultural theory and Foucault’s notion of discourse linked to power. Controversy arose over the felling of a small plantation of non-indigenous pine trees, situated amidst indigenous “fynbos” vegetation in a suburban park. The matter was adjudicated in the Western Ca…
Building just and sustainable cities through government housing developments
While government housing can raise living standards for the urban poor, it has environmental impacts and contributes to urban resource consumption. In Gauteng Province, South Africa, government housing aims to improve quality of life, reduce poverty and inequality, and transform unsustainable urban forms. This paper draws on survey and interview data to explore the social justice and environmental sustainability outcomes of Gauteng’s government h…
CityLab reflections and evolutions: Nurturing knowledge and learning for urban sustainability through co-production experimentation
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 …
Applying social risk theory to competing constructions of risk in environmental assessment
Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability
Urban sustainability is a wicked issue unsuited to management through traditional decision-making structures. Co-productive arrangements, spaces and processes are inscribed in new organisational forms to bridge between diverse forms of knowledge and expertise. This article suggests that local interaction platforms (LIPs) are innovative responses to these challenges, developed in two African and two European cities between 2010 and 2014. Through e…
Local responses to global sustainability agendas: Learning from experimenting with the urban sustainable development goal in Cape Town
The success of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) depends on the availability and accessibility of robust data, as well as the reconfiguration of governance systems that can catalyse urban transformation. Given the uneven success of the Millennium Development Goals, and the unprecedented inclusion of the urban in the SDG process, the feasibility of SDG 11 was assessed in advance of its ratification through a series of urban experiments.…
United and divided responses to complex urban issues: Insights on the value of a transdisciplinary approach to flooding risk
Transdisciplinary research has increasingly been emphasised as desirable, particularly for managing complex issues that exist within socio‐political environmental systems. However, achieving true transdisciplinarity, both in academia and practice, has proved challenging. In the case of natural disasters, the risk of not acknowledging the inherent complexity has the potential to increase the risk of fatalities, damage to property and perpetuate po…
Co-producing urban knowledge: Experimenting with alternatives to ‘best practice’ for Cape Town, South Africa
As an alternative to 'best practice', a City-University partnership in Cape Town has been influencing the development trajectory of the city through the co-production of knowledge by practitioners and academics. The partnership allows for sharing and a deepening of substantive knowledge about Cape Town and also acquisition of tactical knowledge about the regulatory decision-making process in the city. The new networks of knowledge generation tran…
Developing and testing the Urban Sustainable Development Goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study
The campaign for the inclusion of a specifically urban goal within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was challenging. Numerous divergent interests were involved, while urban areas worldwide are also extremely heterogeneous. It was essential to minimize the number of targets and indicators while still capturing critical urban dimensions relevant to human development. It was also essential to test the targets and indicators. …
South Africa's Three Waves of Environmental Policy: (Mis)aligning the Goals of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Three distinct but overlapping policy objectives have influenced environmental policy, structures and processes in contemporary large South African cities: sustainable development, environmental justice and adapting and mitigating for climate change. These goals have been characterized here as three waves of urban environmental policy. This paper responds to the position that sustainability, justice and climate change interventions must be aligne…
Environmental justice in South Africa: Tools and Trade-Offs
Despite constitutional commitments to environmental justice in South Africa, evidence indicates that the poor and the natural environment continue to be marginalised in decision making. This paper examines the role of environmental assessment procedures, specifically Environmental Impact Assessments, in shaping outcomes at the local level to understand how injustices are perpetuated and maintained. Injustices are understood here by examining the …
Of questionable value: The role of practitioners in building sustainable cities
Understandings of urban regeneration, heritage and environmental justice at constitution hill, Johannesburg
Pouvoir, espace et périphérisation en matière de décision environnementale. Le cas de Durban-Sud
Challenge to Colonialism: The Struggle of Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee for Equal Rights in Kenya
Violence and sustainable development in the Durban Metropolitan area
Women and Environmental Management
Are women closer to nature? In exploring the link between women and nature, ZARINA PATEL examines the role of women in environmental management in urban and rural systems
Developing and testing the Urban Sustainable Development Goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study
The campaign for the inclusion of a specifically urban goal within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was challenging. Numerous divergent interests were involved, while urban areas worldwide are also extremely heterogeneous. It was essential to minimize the number of targets and indicators while still capturing critical urban dimensions relevant to human development. It was also essential to test the targets and indicators. …
Co-producing urban knowledge: Experimenting with alternatives to ‘best practice’ for Cape Town, South Africa
As an alternative to 'best practice', a City-University partnership in Cape Town has been influencing the development trajectory of the city through the co-production of knowledge by practitioners and academics. The partnership allows for sharing and a deepening of substantive knowledge about Cape Town and also acquisition of tactical knowledge about the regulatory decision-making process in the city. The new networks of knowledge generation tran…
Challenge to Colonialism: The Struggle of Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee for Equal Rights in Kenya
Local responses to global sustainability agendas: Learning from experimenting with the urban sustainable development goal in Cape Town
The success of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) depends on the availability and accessibility of robust data, as well as the reconfiguration of governance systems that can catalyse urban transformation. Given the uneven success of the Millennium Development Goals, and the unprecedented inclusion of the urban in the SDG process, the feasibility of SDG 11 was assessed in advance of its ratification through a series of urban experiments.…
Of questionable value: The role of practitioners in building sustainable cities
The potential and pitfalls of co-producing urban knowledge: Rethinking spaces of engagement
Securing sustainable and just transition pathways in cities is recognised as key to addressing global environmental challenges. There is increasing acceptance that transformative change in cities must be shaped by the co-production of knowledge between diverse partners. The creation of spaces of collaboration, referred to in the literature as 'third spaces', is integral to such co-production of knowledge. However, evidence to support a direct rel…
Building just and sustainable cities through government housing developments
While government housing can raise living standards for the urban poor, it has environmental impacts and contributes to urban resource consumption. In Gauteng Province, South Africa, government housing aims to improve quality of life, reduce poverty and inequality, and transform unsustainable urban forms. This paper draws on survey and interview data to explore the social justice and environmental sustainability outcomes of Gauteng’s government h…
Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability
Urban sustainability is a wicked issue unsuited to management through traditional decision-making structures. Co-productive arrangements, spaces and processes are inscribed in new organisational forms to bridge between diverse forms of knowledge and expertise. This article suggests that local interaction platforms (LIPs) are innovative responses to these challenges, developed in two African and two European cities between 2010 and 2014. Through e…
Environmental justice in South Africa: Tools and Trade-Offs
Despite constitutional commitments to environmental justice in South Africa, evidence indicates that the poor and the natural environment continue to be marginalised in decision making. This paper examines the role of environmental assessment procedures, specifically Environmental Impact Assessments, in shaping outcomes at the local level to understand how injustices are perpetuated and maintained. Injustices are understood here by examining the …
CityLab reflections and evolutions: Nurturing knowledge and learning for urban sustainability through co-production experimentation
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 …
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities
This paper provides a distinctive analysis of the value of international intermediation alliances for co-production, based on the way they operate in practice. While much attention is paid to ideal or normative models of co-production, there is less understanding of the complexities that pervade co-production practices in specific contexts or how this shapes outcomes. Despite longstanding critiques and reflection, international partnerships can r…
United and divided responses to complex urban issues: Insights on the value of a transdisciplinary approach to flooding risk
Transdisciplinary research has increasingly been emphasised as desirable, particularly for managing complex issues that exist within socio‐political environmental systems. However, achieving true transdisciplinarity, both in academia and practice, has proved challenging. In the case of natural disasters, the risk of not acknowledging the inherent complexity has the potential to increase the risk of fatalities, damage to property and perpetuate po…
Advancing just and sustainable urban transitions: Strengthening the role(s) of African universities
The distinctiveness of urban processes and dynamics in Africa are of global significance. Achieving sustainable transitions in African cities must necessarily engage with theory and practice, which are derived out of context, and applied in systems and structures that are not globally understood. As sites of knowledge production, universities on the continent have a key role to play in addressing Sustainable Development Goal 11, which seeks to ma…
Exploring the role of transdisciplinary learning for navigating climate risks in African cities: The case of Lusaka, Zambia
Applying social risk theory to competing constructions of risk in environmental assessment
Pouvoir, espace et périphérisation en matière de décision environnementale. Le cas de Durban-Sud
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Violence and sustainable development in the Durban Metropolitan area
Women and Environmental Management
Are women closer to nature? In exploring the link between women and nature, ZARINA PATEL examines the role of women in environmental management in urban and rural systems
Challenge to Colonialism: The Struggle of Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee for Equal Rights in Kenya
Pouvoir, espace et périphérisation en matière de décision environnementale. Le cas de Durban-Sud
Understandings of urban regeneration, heritage and environmental justice at constitution hill, Johannesburg
Of questionable value: The role of practitioners in building sustainable cities
Environmental justice in South Africa: Tools and Trade-Offs
Despite constitutional commitments to environmental justice in South Africa, evidence indicates that the poor and the natural environment continue to be marginalised in decision making. This paper examines the role of environmental assessment procedures, specifically Environmental Impact Assessments, in shaping outcomes at the local level to understand how injustices are perpetuated and maintained. Injustices are understood here by examining the …
South Africa's Three Waves of Environmental Policy: (Mis)aligning the Goals of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Three distinct but overlapping policy objectives have influenced environmental policy, structures and processes in contemporary large South African cities: sustainable development, environmental justice and adapting and mitigating for climate change. These goals have been characterized here as three waves of urban environmental policy. This paper responds to the position that sustainability, justice and climate change interventions must be aligne…
Co-producing urban knowledge: Experimenting with alternatives to ‘best practice’ for Cape Town, South Africa
As an alternative to 'best practice', a City-University partnership in Cape Town has been influencing the development trajectory of the city through the co-production of knowledge by practitioners and academics. The partnership allows for sharing and a deepening of substantive knowledge about Cape Town and also acquisition of tactical knowledge about the regulatory decision-making process in the city. The new networks of knowledge generation tran…
Developing and testing the Urban Sustainable Development Goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study
The campaign for the inclusion of a specifically urban goal within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was challenging. Numerous divergent interests were involved, while urban areas worldwide are also extremely heterogeneous. It was essential to minimize the number of targets and indicators while still capturing critical urban dimensions relevant to human development. It was also essential to test the targets and indicators. …
Local responses to global sustainability agendas: Learning from experimenting with the urban sustainable development goal in Cape Town
The success of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) depends on the availability and accessibility of robust data, as well as the reconfiguration of governance systems that can catalyse urban transformation. Given the uneven success of the Millennium Development Goals, and the unprecedented inclusion of the urban in the SDG process, the feasibility of SDG 11 was assessed in advance of its ratification through a series of urban experiments.…
United and divided responses to complex urban issues: Insights on the value of a transdisciplinary approach to flooding risk
Transdisciplinary research has increasingly been emphasised as desirable, particularly for managing complex issues that exist within socio‐political environmental systems. However, achieving true transdisciplinarity, both in academia and practice, has proved challenging. In the case of natural disasters, the risk of not acknowledging the inherent complexity has the potential to increase the risk of fatalities, damage to property and perpetuate po…
Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability
Urban sustainability is a wicked issue unsuited to management through traditional decision-making structures. Co-productive arrangements, spaces and processes are inscribed in new organisational forms to bridge between diverse forms of knowledge and expertise. This article suggests that local interaction platforms (LIPs) are innovative responses to these challenges, developed in two African and two European cities between 2010 and 2014. Through e…
CityLab reflections and evolutions: Nurturing knowledge and learning for urban sustainability through co-production experimentation
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 …
Applying social risk theory to competing constructions of risk in environmental assessment
Building just and sustainable cities through government housing developments
While government housing can raise living standards for the urban poor, it has environmental impacts and contributes to urban resource consumption. In Gauteng Province, South Africa, government housing aims to improve quality of life, reduce poverty and inequality, and transform unsustainable urban forms. This paper draws on survey and interview data to explore the social justice and environmental sustainability outcomes of Gauteng’s government h…
Speaking for the trees: A Study of the Relationship Between Discourse, Power and Organisational Culture in Competing Constructions of Nature
In order to demonstrate the effects of competing constructions of nature by different interest groups, this article describes a dispute in Cape Town, South Africa, through the lens of cultural theory and Foucault’s notion of discourse linked to power. Controversy arose over the felling of a small plantation of non-indigenous pine trees, situated amidst indigenous “fynbos” vegetation in a suburban park. The matter was adjudicated in the Western Ca…
Reconstituting Geography for the 21st century
The potential and pitfalls of co-producing urban knowledge: Rethinking spaces of engagement
Securing sustainable and just transition pathways in cities is recognised as key to addressing global environmental challenges. There is increasing acceptance that transformative change in cities must be shaped by the co-production of knowledge between diverse partners. The creation of spaces of collaboration, referred to in the literature as 'third spaces', is integral to such co-production of knowledge. However, evidence to support a direct rel…
Fostering transdisciplinary research for sustainability in the Global South: Pathways to impact for funding programmes
Advancing global sustainable development hinges on strengthening the connections between science, society, and policy, as well as addressing existing science inequalities. Research funding programmes play a pivotal role in this context, but little is known about how they can actively nurture required transformations of the science systems. In this paper, we investigate how science funders can actively promote science-society-policy interactions t…
In pursuit of just sustainability: Decision-making and conflicting rationalities in government-led housing projects
Social justice and environmental sustainability are often joint policy objectives, however, achieving the dual goal of just sustainability has proved difficult in both theory and practice. Scholars argue that a key challenge is balancing trade-offs between sustainability and justice objectives. This is evident within government-led housing, where there is little consensus regarding how to balance the housing needs within the context of existing u…
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities
This paper provides a distinctive analysis of the value of international intermediation alliances for co-production, based on the way they operate in practice. While much attention is paid to ideal or normative models of co-production, there is less understanding of the complexities that pervade co-production practices in specific contexts or how this shapes outcomes. Despite longstanding critiques and reflection, international partnerships can r…
Exploring the role of transdisciplinary learning for navigating climate risks in African cities: The case of Lusaka, Zambia
Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Black African youth and homelessness in Toronto
This qualitative narrative study investigates how social services among African immigrant youth in Toronto can be reimagined and provided in intersectional ways that are just and responsive to their specific and unique needs. The study interviewed 6 African Youths living in Toronto. The study employed an eclectic theory to argue for reimagining of policy that drive homelessness in Canada. The themes that came out of this study are: Homelessness i…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Geography (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Law (7 works)