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      • HOD: Dept of Environmental & Geographical Science
      • Assoc Prof Pippin Anderson
      • Professor Frank Eckardt
      • Prof. Babatunde J. Abiodun
      • Prof Bruce Hewitson
      • Prof Mark New
      • Prof Maano Ramutsindela
      • Professor Rachel Wynberg
      • Associate Prof Jane Battersby
      • Assoc Prof Zarina Patel
      • Dr Philile Mbatha
      • Dr Phindile Sabela-Rikhotso
      • Dr Suraya Scheba
      • Dr Johanna von Holdt
      • Professor Gina Ziervogel
      • Assoc Prof. Shari Daya
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      • Dr Phikolomzi Matikinca
      • Dr Marieke Norton
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Noah's Ark with Library entrance

EVENTS/ SEMINARS/ NOTICE

EGS LUNCHTIME SEMINARS
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world food day

What does the right to the city have to do with people's right to food?

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Kezia Fortuin

Housing activism through research

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Pippin Anderson

‘The DTA is the only UCT award I have ever coveted’

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Dr Suraya Scheba

Cape Talk interview with Dr Suraya Scheba: 291 Problem building cases in Cape Town: Where do we stand with evictions?

Palm trees Limpopo launch

Empowering Local Communities: The Launch of PALM-TREEs in Limpopo

30 Apr 2025
Funding

Funding Oppurtunities

20 Mar 2025
Tea Time

Tea Time: A Unique Approach to Strengthening Bonds

14 Mar 2025
Campus life 2025

Campus life 2025

17 Feb 2025

About EGS

The Environmental and Geographical Science department is a dynamic and thriving academic community that focuses on the most pressing challenges of our time, from environmental change to social justice. We are committed to high standards of research, covering a broad array of subjects including the Anthropocene era, urban and rural dynamics, geopolitics, global development, earth systems, sustainability and climate change. Engaging with complex contemporary issues that are of relevance to society necessitates that the questions we ask draw upon philosophies and methods that integrate across the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. Our focus on complexity is supported through collaborations and engagements with a range of knowledge bearers beyond the university, including community groups, and the public and private sectors. The curriculum is enhanced through research-led teaching, using theory, case studies, practical and field-based approaches. We cover a range of conceptual debates that critically engage relationships in place and across space and time in order to understand social, human, physical and biophysical interactions shaping contemporary challenges facing us at different scales - locally, nationally, across the continent and globally. We offer a learning journey that graduates change makers who are equipped with relevant skills for a range of professions that engage with our changing world. To be a member of the EGS department is to be part of a community that strives to be relevant, rigorous, respectful, collaborative and caring - as we believe that these are the values that are needed to shift current trajectories to become sustainable and socially just.

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Rondebosch
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Telephone: 021 650 2873/4 
Email: egssecretary@uct.ac.za

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