Wilfred Lunga
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6476205 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wilfred Lunga |
| PRENOMES | Wilfred |
| SOBRENOME | Lunga |
| ASSINATURA | LUNGA W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Human Sciences Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4673-2907 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
From risk to resilience
Background Children across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) face disproportionate climate vulnerability, with recent studies indicating 2–3 times higher risk exposure than adults. Despite global commitments under the Sendai Framework, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) education remains fragmented, under-resourced, and exclusionary. Fewer SADC schools have implemented comprehensive DRR programmes, and few teachers receive relevant tra…
Unshackling our youth from the chains of substance abuse as disaster risk
This study, a collaboration between the University of Limpopo and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), aimed to generate baseline evidence to inform the development of an innovative performative arts intervention, designed to engage young people with scientific knowledge on substance use disorders (SUD), mental health, and behavioral risks. Using focus group discussions and key informant interviews across three communities in the Sekhukhun…
Navigating the winds of change
In an era of increased complexity, interdependence, uncertainty and rapidly advancing technology, the ability to identify and swiftly adapt to current and future trends is key to progressing sustainability. Intersecting drivers and stressors are converging to destabilize socioecological systems and reshape national, regional and global outlooks. The intersecting and converging crises of the 21st century have exposed the limits of planning that re…
Critical zones, disaster risk science, and education for sustainable development in Africa
This article examines the intersection of disaster risk science, critical zones, and education in advancing sustainable development in Africa. It unpacks these interrelated concepts and explores their interconnected roles within the broader social-ecological system. Critical zones, dynamic interfaces where biotic and abiotic components interact, are increasingly recognized as key areas for understanding the processes that trigger and intensify di…
Health Inequalities in Primary Care
Climate change has magnified health disparities across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region by destabilizing the critical natural systems, which include water security, food production, and disease ecology. The IPCC (2007) underscores the disproportionate impact on low-income populations characterized by limited adaptive capacity, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. Rising temperatures, erratic precipitation patterns, and i…
Integrating Ubuntu
Disasters, whether natural, socio-natural, or anthropogenic, are not merely technical challenges but deeply political and cultural phenomena shaped by historical and ideological contexts. In Southern Africa, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRMM) has long been dominated by global, technocratic frameworks that sideline indigenous knowledge systems. Yet, as climate hazards intensify, the limitations of infrastructure-centric approaches becom…
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution
With constrained resources and many issues at hand, various prioritization mechanisms will be needed to determine issues to be addressed for the upcoming Science Policy Panel (SPP) for chemicals, waste and pollution, currently mandated for development by the UN Environment Assembly. This proposed rapid review sets out one way to assist in prioritization. A screening of the current or expected impact - the actual harm caused to human health, biodi…
Neighbourhood responses to drought in the Western Cape
Neighbourhood responses to drought in the Western Cape
Critical zones, disaster risk science, and education for sustainable development in Africa
This article examines the intersection of disaster risk science, critical zones, and education in advancing sustainable development in Africa. It unpacks these interrelated concepts and explores their interconnected roles within the broader social-ecological system. Critical zones, dynamic interfaces where biotic and abiotic components interact, are increasingly recognized as key areas for understanding the processes that trigger and intensify di…
Health Inequalities in Primary Care
Climate change has magnified health disparities across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region by destabilizing the critical natural systems, which include water security, food production, and disease ecology. The IPCC (2007) underscores the disproportionate impact on low-income populations characterized by limited adaptive capacity, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. Rising temperatures, erratic precipitation patterns, and i…
Integrating Ubuntu
Disasters, whether natural, socio-natural, or anthropogenic, are not merely technical challenges but deeply political and cultural phenomena shaped by historical and ideological contexts. In Southern Africa, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRMM) has long been dominated by global, technocratic frameworks that sideline indigenous knowledge systems. Yet, as climate hazards intensify, the limitations of infrastructure-centric approaches becom…
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution
With constrained resources and many issues at hand, various prioritization mechanisms will be needed to determine issues to be addressed for the upcoming Science Policy Panel (SPP) for chemicals, waste and pollution, currently mandated for development by the UN Environment Assembly. This proposed rapid review sets out one way to assist in prioritization. A screening of the current or expected impact - the actual harm caused to human health, biodi…
From risk to resilience
Background Children across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) face disproportionate climate vulnerability, with recent studies indicating 2–3 times higher risk exposure than adults. Despite global commitments under the Sendai Framework, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) education remains fragmented, under-resourced, and exclusionary. Fewer SADC schools have implemented comprehensive DRR programmes, and few teachers receive relevant tra…
Unshackling our youth from the chains of substance abuse as disaster risk
This study, a collaboration between the University of Limpopo and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), aimed to generate baseline evidence to inform the development of an innovative performative arts intervention, designed to engage young people with scientific knowledge on substance use disorders (SUD), mental health, and behavioral risks. Using focus group discussions and key informant interviews across three communities in the Sekhukhun…
Navigating the winds of change
In an era of increased complexity, interdependence, uncertainty and rapidly advancing technology, the ability to identify and swiftly adapt to current and future trends is key to progressing sustainability. Intersecting drivers and stressors are converging to destabilize socioecological systems and reshape national, regional and global outlooks. The intersecting and converging crises of the 21st century have exposed the limits of planning that re…
Disaster Management and Resilience (3 obras) · Disaster risk reduction (3 obras) · Environmental Science (3 obras) · Corporate governance (2 obras) · Curriculum (2 obras) · Economics (2 obras) · Environmental resource management (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras) · Risk management (2 obras) · Socioeconomics (2 obras)