Green Skills Research in South Africa

Models, Cases and Methods

Eureta Rosenberg, Presha Ramsarup, Heila Lotz-Sisitka

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780367233402
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000764598
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Sustainable Development
• Index: Economics

This book proposes transformative, realist methodology for skills research and planning through an analysis of case studies of the changing world of work, new learning pathways and educational system challenges.

Studies of the green economy and sustainability transitions are a growing field internationally, however there are few books that link this interest to the development of skills. This book draws on, and showcases, the experience and insights of researcher-practitioners who are at the cutting edge in this emerging field, internationally and in South Africa. The context for this book is South Africa, but application is worldwide. In many ways indicative of the global picture, South Africa is in the grip of economic and environmental imperatives, searching for safe and just transitions. The authors present a new, embedded transitioning systems model for studying skills for a sustainable, just future.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, ecological economics and skills planning.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• Authors’ biographies
• 1 Skills for just transitions to sustainability: An orientation
• 2 Green economy transitions and skills: Global and South African perspectives
• 3 Mining: A laminated, dialectic methodology for identifying not-yet-obvious green skills demand
• 4 Green skills for agriculture: A method for focusing demand analysis and prioritisation
• 5 Surface coatings: Occupational analysis and green skills
• 6 Learning pathways into environmental specialisations: A boundaryless careers perspective
• 7 Transitioning into work: A transitioning process perspective
• 8 Probing the potential of social ecosystemic skills approaches for green skills planning: Perspectives from Expanded Public Works Programme studies
• 9 Framing learning needs assessments for sustainability policy learning practices
• 10 Green skills supply: Research from providers’ vantage point(s)
• 11 Formative interventionist research generating iterative mediation processes in a vocational education and training learning network
• 12 Greening occupations and green skills analysis
• 13 Synthesis and elaboration of critical realist methodology for green skills research
• 14 Green skills research: Implications for systems, policy, work and learning
• Index