Odirilwe Selomane
Director
Email: odirilwes@sun.ac.za
Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University
Profile
Dr Odirilwe Selomane is a researcher at Stellenbosch University based at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition. His research focuses on using primarily existing data to measure, quantify and monitor social-ecological systems and dynamics within them. He is interested in understanding how societies benefits from using ecosystems, how this changes overtime, and how to better account for blind spots in monitoring these changes. He is currently also starting to explore how faraway places could have impacts on local conditions through processes such as trade – using the telecoupling framework. He currently co-leads the South African component of an 18 country project as part of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) consortium. The projects aims to understand how countries can transition towards sustainable land-use and food systems.
He was recently involved in the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as a fellow, and was a contributing author in the Global Environmental Outlook 6 report (GEO-6). He is a co-coordinator of the Ecosystem Services Working Group of Group on Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON), is a committee member of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), and a member of the Balaton Group as a Donella Meadows Fellow.
Projects
Relevant Links and Info
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