Spatial Planning, Development and Implementation

Sub-programme leader: Prof Ernst Drewes (Ernst.Drewes@nwu.ac.za)

Latest news:

New Book: Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community

Researchers from the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Prof. Ernst Drewes and Dr Mariske van Aswegen have recently published a new book in Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy series, called Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
https://www.routledge.com/Regional-Policy-in-the-Southern-African-Development-Community/Drewes-vanAswegen/p/book/9781032459424

Look out for the ENVIRA Winter Edition 2024 for more information.

Vacancy: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

The Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management invites suitable applications for the Post-Doctoral Research Fellow position within the Spatial Planning, Development, and Implementation Subprogramme.

More information available here.

About Spatial Planning, Development and Implementation

Strategic Aim & Mission

The vision is to attain excellence in market related spatial and development planning needs on a research and service rendering basis.
The mission is to promote sustainable planning, development and implementation within the governmental, private sector and public spheres relating to research output transfers, contract research and leadership. The sub-programme focuses on capacity building, service delivery and training amongst all sectors of the planning fraternity.

Specific Focus

The research, planning and development focus of the sub-programme includes the following main research focuses as included in Figure 1. As can be deduced it relates to the core interfaces of urban planning, rural planning and regional planning, as well as other (related) disciplines. The main research focuses can be grouped into the following strategic research themes.

Fig 1

Figure 1: Research focusses of Spatial Planning, Development and Implementation

Research Objectives

The goals and objectives of the sub-programme include:

The promotion of international and national research related to sustainable spatial planning, development and implementation within all research domains, spheres of government and the private sector.
Co-operation with other international and national universities and research related bodies operating within the identified research focuses.
Enhancing a trans-disciplinary focus on research, including co-operation in all the spatial dimensions related to activities and focuses.
Promoting and implementing applied research to enhance training and capacity building of students, the community, industry and the planning profession.