Recent Publications

Recent publications by members of the Global Risk Governance programme include journal articles and a report on environmental security and policing:

Simpson, N., Simpson, K., Shearing, C. & Cirolia, L.R. 2019. Municipal Finance and Resilience Lessons for Urban Infrastructure Management: A Case Study from the Cape Town Drought. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (TJUE). https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2019.1642203

Simpson, N.P., Shearing, C. &  Dupont, B. 2019. When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2019.1609402

Simpson, N.P. and Krönke, M. 2019. Police in Zimbabwe: Helping hand or iron fist?Afrobarometer.  

Mutongwizo, T., Holley, T., Shearing,  C., & Simpson , N.P.   2019. Resilience policing: An emerging response to shifting harm landscapes, Policing.

Simpson, N.P. 2018. Accommodating landscape-scale shocks: Lessons on transition from Cape Town and Puerto Rico, Geoforum, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.12.005

Berg, J.  & Shearing, C.  2018. Governing-through-Harm and Public Goods Policing. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,  Vol. 679: 72-85.

Holley, C., Shearing, C., Harrington, C., Kennedy, A. &  Mutongwizo, T. 2018. Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology and International Relations. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Vol 14:1.

Hubschle, A., with Shearing, C. 2018. Ending Wildlife Trafficking: Local Communities as Change Agents. Geneva: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. 1-48 pp. 

Simpson, N. P. 2018. Applying the Capability Approach to Enhance the Conceptualization of Well-being in Environmental Assessment, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 19:3, 365-397.

Simpson, N. P. & Basta, C. 2018. Sufficiently capable for effective participation in environmental impact assessment? Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 70, 57–70.
 
Williams, P. A., Crespo, O., Abu, M. & Simpson, N. P. 2018. A systematic review of how vulnerability of smallholder agricultural systems to changing climate is assessed in Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 13: 103004. Available here through open access >>>