Coleen Vogel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Coleen Vogel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Coleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogel |
| SIGNATURE | VOGEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3842-8489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 762 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The future of Global Environmental Assessments: 20 Years after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Stories from the Global South: The interplay of climate science, ‘action’ and the implications for development
Calls for humanity to act on environmental changes are becoming increasingly critical. The growing polycrisis including the impact of ongoing conflicts in contested geopolitical spaces and the struggles for ways to sustain a livelihood in areas of precarity and poverty, are just some of the intersecting challenges which have given rise to a Code Red alarm by the United Nations surrounding issues related to climate change. Rich narratives and stor…
On being oriented: Strengthening transgressive orientations in transdisciplinary sustainability research through queer theory
We move from a provocative analogy: that transdisciplinary sustainability researchers are to academia what queer people are to a heteronormative and sex/gender binary world. Both may experience disorientation and need to learn how to transgress established norms. Queer people and scholars have extensively dealt with (dis)orientation and celebrated transgression. We suggest that queer theory can help transdisciplinary sustainability researchers to…
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Gender and climate change ‘through other eyes’: Grassroots women’s responses to changing environments in southern Africa
In this article we draw on the first-hand experience and close walk that the first author (Dorah Morema) has had implementing various projects over a 10-year period with GenderCC Southern Africa – Women for Climate Justice (GenderCCSA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working on the intersection between climate change and gender in South Africa. In particular, we examine how issues of vulnerability, agency and gender are used/misused and un…
The self-reported human health effects associated with heat exposure in Agincourt sub-district of South Africa
Exposure to heat and heatwaves are associated with mortality and may amplify morbidities. In a climate change context, projections suggest temperatures will likely rise in the foreseeable future. Our paper assesses the current knowledge on human health effects of heat exposure and gathered local knowledge of heat-health effects in a rural area of the Agincourt sub-district of South Africa. Existing, peer-reviewed published literature on heat effe…
When early warning is not enough
Getting to the heart of transformation
Climate change, biodiversity loss, the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing inequity and poverty are some of the key global challenges facing us today. These multiple and interacting crises have elicited growing appeals to the need for transformation. Yet while the scholarly literature on transformations is expanding rapidly, the concept risks becoming an empty buzzword or an alibi for superficial interventions and business-as-usual responses within re…
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
Implementing capacity development for disaster risk reduction as a social learning system
Water governance challenges in rural South Africa: Exploring institutional coordination in drought management
Droughts have severe direct impacts on the livelihoods of rural populations. Thus, the management of water for communal agriculture and water supply should be well coordinated to enhance drought resilience. Notwithstanding the interrelations among water management institutions in South Africa, there are complexities in the way these institutions work together, both in preparation for, and during drought times. In this article, we examine the gove…
Shape of a water crisis: Practitioner perspectives on urban water scarcity and ‘Day Zero’ in South Africa
The interruption of essential water services in Cape Town, foreshadowed as ‘Day Zero,’ is one of several recent examples of urban water scarcity connected to the language of urgent climate change. Johannesburg, with its larger and growing population and deeply enmeshed water and power infrastructures, is currently regarded as one drought away from disaster. As a result, the lessons to be learned from Cape Town are under active debate in South Afr…
Prepare for the unanticipated: Portfolios of coping strategies of rural households facing diverse shocks
Towards transformative social learning on the path to 1.5 degrees
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 …
Diversity to decline-livelihood adaptations of the Namaqua Khoikhoi (1800–1900)
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance
The United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June is an important opportunity to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: Key insights from the Earth System Governance Project
“A Persistent Truth”—Reflections on Drought Risk Management in Southern Africa
Severe droughts in southern Africa are associated with livelihood impacts, a strain on local economies, and other hardships. Extensive effort has been spent in the past trying to improve responses to periods of extensive drought. There have also been renewed calls for improvements to climate change adaptation by adopting more proactive governance and disaster risk reduction approaches. Few efforts, however, have been made to assess how to learn m…
Global environmental change: Conceptualising the growing challenge for cities in poor countries
Ongoing urbanisation makes cities a key focus for global environmental change (GEC) research, creating an imperative for a new, city‐scale, research agenda. The vulnerability of urban populations to the multiple stresses of GEC lies at the core of overlapping domains of knowledge that could be better integrated in advancing research. The urban development, global change and disasters literatures are fragmented and reveal fundamental cleavages ove…
Land‐cover change and human–environment interactions in a rural cultural landscape in South Africa
This paper presents an historical analysis (1974–97) of associations between land‐cover change and socio‐economic factors for three villages in a former bantustan region of South Africa. The notion of social–ecological systems is used as the conceptual framework for this analysis, in which the former bantustan region of Bushbuckridge is posited as a cultural landscape. The local landscape showed distinctive modifications over the study period, br…
Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships
Living and responding to multiple stressors in South Africa—Glimpses from KwaZulu-Natal
Heads or tails? Stakeholder analysis as a tool for conservation area management
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: Moving beyond the myths
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships
Living and responding to multiple stressors in South Africa—Glimpses from KwaZulu-Natal
Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: Key insights from the Earth System Governance Project
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Land‐cover change and human–environment interactions in a rural cultural landscape in South Africa
This paper presents an historical analysis (1974–97) of associations between land‐cover change and socio‐economic factors for three villages in a former bantustan region of South Africa. The notion of social–ecological systems is used as the conceptual framework for this analysis, in which the former bantustan region of Bushbuckridge is posited as a cultural landscape. The local landscape showed distinctive modifications over the study period, br…
Global environmental change: Conceptualising the growing challenge for cities in poor countries
Ongoing urbanisation makes cities a key focus for global environmental change (GEC) research, creating an imperative for a new, city‐scale, research agenda. The vulnerability of urban populations to the multiple stresses of GEC lies at the core of overlapping domains of knowledge that could be better integrated in advancing research. The urban development, global change and disasters literatures are fragmented and reveal fundamental cleavages ove…
Getting to the heart of transformation
Climate change, biodiversity loss, the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing inequity and poverty are some of the key global challenges facing us today. These multiple and interacting crises have elicited growing appeals to the need for transformation. Yet while the scholarly literature on transformations is expanding rapidly, the concept risks becoming an empty buzzword or an alibi for superficial interventions and business-as-usual responses within re…
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 …
Heads or tails? Stakeholder analysis as a tool for conservation area management
Prepare for the unanticipated: Portfolios of coping strategies of rural households facing diverse shocks
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Towards transformative social learning on the path to 1.5 degrees
Diversity to decline-livelihood adaptations of the Namaqua Khoikhoi (1800–1900)
Seven Fat Years and Seven Lean Years”? Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa
Sustainable urban environments: The case of Alexandra
Dimensions of drought: South African case studies
Sustainable urban environments: The case of Alexandra
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: Moving beyond the myths
Heads or tails? Stakeholder analysis as a tool for conservation area management
Seven Fat Years and Seven Lean Years”? Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa
Living and responding to multiple stressors in South Africa—Glimpses from KwaZulu-Natal
Global environmental change: Conceptualising the growing challenge for cities in poor countries
Ongoing urbanisation makes cities a key focus for global environmental change (GEC) research, creating an imperative for a new, city‐scale, research agenda. The vulnerability of urban populations to the multiple stresses of GEC lies at the core of overlapping domains of knowledge that could be better integrated in advancing research. The urban development, global change and disasters literatures are fragmented and reveal fundamental cleavages ove…
Land‐cover change and human–environment interactions in a rural cultural landscape in South Africa
This paper presents an historical analysis (1974–97) of associations between land‐cover change and socio‐economic factors for three villages in a former bantustan region of South Africa. The notion of social–ecological systems is used as the conceptual framework for this analysis, in which the former bantustan region of Bushbuckridge is posited as a cultural landscape. The local landscape showed distinctive modifications over the study period, br…
Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships
“A Persistent Truth”—Reflections on Drought Risk Management in Southern Africa
Severe droughts in southern Africa are associated with livelihood impacts, a strain on local economies, and other hardships. Extensive effort has been spent in the past trying to improve responses to periods of extensive drought. There have also been renewed calls for improvements to climate change adaptation by adopting more proactive governance and disaster risk reduction approaches. Few efforts, however, have been made to assess how to learn m…
Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance
The United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June is an important opportunity to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: Key insights from the Earth System Governance Project
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Diversity to decline-livelihood adaptations of the Namaqua Khoikhoi (1800–1900)
Towards transformative social learning on the path to 1.5 degrees
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 …
Implementing capacity development for disaster risk reduction as a social learning system
Water governance challenges in rural South Africa: Exploring institutional coordination in drought management
Droughts have severe direct impacts on the livelihoods of rural populations. Thus, the management of water for communal agriculture and water supply should be well coordinated to enhance drought resilience. Notwithstanding the interrelations among water management institutions in South Africa, there are complexities in the way these institutions work together, both in preparation for, and during drought times. In this article, we examine the gove…
Shape of a water crisis: Practitioner perspectives on urban water scarcity and ‘Day Zero’ in South Africa
The interruption of essential water services in Cape Town, foreshadowed as ‘Day Zero,’ is one of several recent examples of urban water scarcity connected to the language of urgent climate change. Johannesburg, with its larger and growing population and deeply enmeshed water and power infrastructures, is currently regarded as one drought away from disaster. As a result, the lessons to be learned from Cape Town are under active debate in South Afr…
Prepare for the unanticipated: Portfolios of coping strategies of rural households facing diverse shocks
When early warning is not enough
Getting to the heart of transformation
Climate change, biodiversity loss, the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing inequity and poverty are some of the key global challenges facing us today. These multiple and interacting crises have elicited growing appeals to the need for transformation. Yet while the scholarly literature on transformations is expanding rapidly, the concept risks becoming an empty buzzword or an alibi for superficial interventions and business-as-usual responses within re…
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
The self-reported human health effects associated with heat exposure in Agincourt sub-district of South Africa
Exposure to heat and heatwaves are associated with mortality and may amplify morbidities. In a climate change context, projections suggest temperatures will likely rise in the foreseeable future. Our paper assesses the current knowledge on human health effects of heat exposure and gathered local knowledge of heat-health effects in a rural area of the Agincourt sub-district of South Africa. Existing, peer-reviewed published literature on heat effe…
On being oriented: Strengthening transgressive orientations in transdisciplinary sustainability research through queer theory
We move from a provocative analogy: that transdisciplinary sustainability researchers are to academia what queer people are to a heteronormative and sex/gender binary world. Both may experience disorientation and need to learn how to transgress established norms. Queer people and scholars have extensively dealt with (dis)orientation and celebrated transgression. We suggest that queer theory can help transdisciplinary sustainability researchers to…
Geography (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Environmental resource management (14 works) · Environmental planning (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Climate change (9 works)