Prof. Adv. Havatzelet Yahel is a Senior Faculty Member at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism and the head of the Israel Studies Program at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in historical geography, MPA in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government after receiving the Israel Wexner fellowship for excellence in the public sector, and BA in Economy and in LLB in Law from Tel-Aviv University. Before joining the academy, Yahel was the Deputy to the Southern District Attorney at the Ministry of Justice in Israel. Her research interests include historical geography, the study of indigenous and minority populations, land and settlements policies, and more. Yahel has published numerous academic papers and several books. Her last book The Tribal Challenge: Alliances and Confrontations in the Israeli Negev, was published in 2024 by Indiana University Press. 

1.           Personal Information

               Name:  Professor Etienne Nel

2.           Qualifications

                                 Qualification name:            Institution:                            Date of Graduation:

                                 BA Degree                              Rhodes University                               1984

                                 BA Honours Degree             Rhodes University                               1985

                                 Higher Diploma in Education Rhodes University                               1986

                                 MA Degree                             University of the Witwatersrand          1991

                                 PhD Degree                            Rhodes University                               1997

3.           Professional Affiliations/Memberships 

               International Geographical Union

               New Zealand Geographical Society

               Fellow – Royal Geographical Society

               Fellow - Regional Studies Association

               South African Geographical Society – awarded life Fellowship

4.           Employment History

               (a)         Present Position

                                 Professor, Geography, University of Otago, 2008-present

                                 Head of School, Geography, University of Otago, 2020-

               (b)         Employment History

                                 Teacher                  Estcourt High School           1986-87

                                 Lecturer                 University of Transkei         1988-89

                                 Senior Lecturer    Giyani College of Education   1989

                                 Professor               Rhodes University                 1990-2007

5.           Other Relevant Experience

Director of Studies  Washington College Programme based at Rhodes University 2000-2007

Project Leader      World Bank / DBSA Research Team Evaluating Local Economic Development in South Africa 2004 -2006

              Chairperson          International Geographic Union Commission C0-47  2004-present

               Research Associate School of Tourism & Hospitality, Faculty of Management, University of Johannesburg, 2010 –

               Visiting Research Fellow  School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, 2011-present.

                Visiting Professor Rhodes University South Africa, 2014-present

                Visiting Professor School of Business, University of Northumbria, 2013 – present.

                Visiting Professor   Centre for Development and Enterprise, University of the Free State, 2014-present.

6.           Research Activities

(a)             Research Expertise

a.  Local Economic Development

b.  Urban, Rural and Regional Economic Development

c.  Local Government

(b)             Experience in contract research and consultancies

1992     Market survey for a proposed Retail/Leisure Centre in Grahamstown, undertaken of behalf or Q and R Realty,  Johannesburg.

1992    Survey of Industrial Development Alternatives for the Border Region, undertaken on behalf of Corplan, East  London and the African National Congress (Border region, South Africa).

1992     Assisted in the formulation of the Border Kei Development Forum's (East London) submission of a proposed Economic Development Package to the Minister of Finance.

1993     Drew up proposals for the establishment of Export Processing Zones in the Border-Kei Region on behalf of the Border-Kei Development Forum.

1993-4   Survey and Analysis of the Development Potential of Small Towns in the Eastern Cape on behalf of the Urban Foundation.

                              1993-4 Investigation into the structure of the civil service in the Eastern Cape - Border-Kei region on behalf of the Macro-Economic Research Group (University of Fort Hare) and the African National Congress (Border Region).

1994     Investigation into the determination of the borders of the East London metropolitan

               area on behalf of Corplan and the East London local government negotiating forum.

                           1994     The planning of local development in East London - advice rendered to the East London municipality.

                              1994     Technical advice rendered to the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Eastern Cape

 Province.

1994-   Investigation to the potential role of local authorities in the promotion of local economic development and the promotion of small and medium enterprises; and the drafting of appropriate policy guidelines on behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the South African National Civic Organization (SANCO).

1994 -  United Nations Centre for Regional Development  grant to investigate small town

               features and constraints in Africa (Phase II) (project leader).

1994 -  Friedrich Ebert Stiftung grant to research and  draft the South African National

Civics Organizations policy paper on `Local Economic Development' (principal  author).

1994-5- Evaluation and Assessment of the Border Rural Development Forum on behalf of

the I.D.T. (Independent Development Trust).

                                 1994-5- Evaluation of joint-South African government and Independent Development Trust

                                                   funded community development projects in the Border Corridor of South  Africa on

behalf of the Independent Development Trust

1995-6-   Member of the Ministry in the Office of the President's Task team on Local

Economic Development.     

1995-6 Editing of the Centre for Development and Enterprise policy document on Small

Towns.

1995  - United Nations Centre for Regional Development grant to investigate small town

               features and constraints in Africa (Phase III) (project leader).

1995 -  British Overseas Development Agency / Ministry in the Office of the President of  South  Africa, grant to investigate Local Economic Development in South   Africa (participant).

1995Human Sciences Research Council Grant to investigate the current use of GIS in

      tertiary institutions (project leader).

                                 1996-8 Human Sciences Research Council Grant to investigate Sustainable Livelihoods

                                                   Projects in the Kat River Valley, South Africa (Project Leader)

1996-    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung grant to research and draft the South African Government's

               draft green  paper on `Local Economic Development' (principal  author).

1996Participant in the World Bank / United Nations Development Programme /Overseas

               Development Agency national `Poverty Survey' of South Africa.

1997Electoral Institute of South Africa study of Local Government capacity in South

      Africa.

                                 1999 -   Centre for Development and Enterprise: Drafting of report on Local Economic

                                                   Development

                                 1999 -  South African Government (Department of Constitutional Development) and the

                                 Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: investigation of Local Economic Development Instruments

                                 to address Economic Transformation in South Africa.

                                 1999 -   Project leader in a survey of the status of Local Economic Development in ten

countries in Southern Africa, undertaken on behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Small Enterprise Promotion Advisory Council of  SADC (the Southern African Development Community).

1999     Project report writing for the Centre for Development and Enterprise.

1999-   Research undertaken for the Freidrich Ebert Stiftung and Department of

Constitutional Development (South African government) into Local Economic Development policy instruments.

                           1999     Evaluation of the Seymour development project on behalf of Corplan, East London.

2002 Evaluation of EU funded LED intervention in the Cato Manor urban renewal area

2002     Drafting of an Annotated Bibliography on research undertaken in Small Towns in

               South Africa for BEES.

                                 2002 -  Project leader – GTZ grant to research and assist with LED in pilot rural areas in the

                                                   Eastern Cape, South Africa.

2003     Project leader – Premier’s Economic Advisory Council of the Free State Province:

Study of LED in the Free State.

2004          Project leader – City of Cape Town: Evaluation of the Noordhoek Valley Training

               Centre Initiative.

2004          Centre for Development and Enterprise – study on Growth Coalitions.

                                 2004-06 - Project leader – World Bank / Development Bank of Southern Africa Study of Local

                                                   Economic Development in South Africa.

                                 2005     Co-researcher international overview of Regional Development for Department of

                                                   Trade and Industry, South Africa.

2005          S.A. Government / German Development Bank: finalization of the draft national

               LED document.

2005-06   Drafting of Regional Industrial Development Strategy for the South African

               Department of Trade and industry

2006          European Union LED Support Programme to the Eastern Cape province– Technical

               Advisory Support.

2006    GTZ investigation of the Status Quo of Local Economic Development in the

Eastern Cape, South Africa

2007          Research into retail patterns and transport connectivity in Bethelsdorp on behalf of

the Bethelsdorp Development Trust, South Africa

2007     Development of the Local Economic Development strategic plan for the Makana Municipality, South Africa

               (c)         Research Grants

(1) Research grants as first named principal or joint principal investigator.

1994 -  United Nations Centre for Regional Development  grant to investigate small town

               features and constraints in Africa (Phase II) (project leader).

1995  - United Nations Centre for Regional Development grant to investigate small town

               features and constraints in Africa (Phase III) (project leader).

                                 1996-8 Human Sciences Research Council Grant to investigate Sustainable Livelihoods

                                                   Projects in the Kat River Valley, South Africa (Project Leader)

                                 1999 -   Survey of the status of Local Economic Development in ten

countries in Southern Africa, undertaken on behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Small Enterprise Promotion Advisory Council of  SADC (the Southern African Development Community) (project leader)

                                 2001-03 – Project Leader, National Research Foundation (South Africa) grant to investigate

 Local Economic Development in South Africa in terms of the Sustainable    

 Livelihoods Programme

                                 2003-07 – Project Leader, National Research Foundation (South Africa) grant to investigate

 Local Economic Development in South Africa in terms of the Sustainable         

 Livelihoods Programme

                                 2004-06 - Project leader – World Bank / Development Bank of Southern Africa Study of Local

                                                   Economic Development in South Africa.

               2008-10 -  Oceania Development Network – Research Grant to examine urban livelihoods in

                                 Samoa.

                                 2008-09 – Global Development Network / UNDP grant to investigate Urban Agriculture in

                                                   Southern Africa.

                                 2009-10 Royal Society of New Zealand grant to initiate economic development research in

                                                   New Zealand

                                 2010 - 13  NZ Aid grant to undertake development support in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

2011- 13 NZAid grant to undertake research into Urban Agriculture in Zambia,

2013- 15  Resource Towns and Peripheries (Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies) Value: $6000 (with Sean Conelly)

2016 - 17 Regional Studies Association grant to investigate aspects of regional and local development in Australasia.

                                 2017 – 19 New Zealand National Science Challenge Research Grant (PI) – Harnessing the

                                                   Hinterland. Value: $ 322,000

2022-4 Comparative Perspectives on Immigration to Small and Mid-Sized Cities was                                    awarded a Partnership Development Grant from the SSHRC. Co-PI with Ash Alam.

Value: $ 46,000 

                                 (2)          Participant on Major Research Grants.

1995-    British Overseas Development Agency / Ministry in the Office of the President of  South  Africa, grant to investigate Local Economic Development in South   Africa (participant).

                                 1996-    Participant in the World Bank / United Nations Development Programme /Overseas

               Development Agency national `Poverty Survey' of South Africa.

                                 1999 -  South African Government (Department of Constitutional Development) and the

                                 Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: investigation of Local Economic Development Instruments

                                 to address Economic Transformation in South Africa (participant).

2008/9- Urban Agriculture Study of Southern Africa for Global Development Network / UNDP

2014     ILO SME Observatory / National Treasury – Study of SME development in South Africa

2015 -  OECD grant to look at case-studies of youth employment programmes in New Zealand.

2018-    South African Cities Network – Planning, economics and local development in Intermediate Cities, Literature Review.

2020-2 Rural amenities and thriving regional economies (National Science Challenge 11:

Building Better Communities) Value $180,000 Co-PI for project to explore rural amenities for thriving regional economies. (with Sean Connelly Geography; Alyssa Ryan PhD candidate).

(d)                               Supervision of Postgraduate Students

Student                                 Degree / University    Supervisors              % Nel Enrolment Dates

Zituta, M                               MA Rhodes                   Nel                              100   1995-1996

Hale, M                                 MA Rhodes                   Nel                              100   1998-1999

Motteux, N                           PhD Rhodes                  Rowntree, Nel         40     1999-2003

Mkize, N                               MSc Rhodes                  Villet, Nel                 40     2001-2002

White, R                                MA Rhodes                   Nel                              100   2002-2003

Buthelezi, S                          MA Rhodes                   Nel                              100   2002-2003

Gibb, M                                 MSocSc Rhodes           Nel                              100   2002-2003

Trotter, D                              MA Natal                       Hill, Nel                     40     2001-2003

Gooedenough, C.                 MA Natal                       Hill, Nel                     40     2001-2003

Lefutso, D.                            MBA Rhodes                Nel                              100   2005-2005

Gibb, M.                                PhD  Rhodes                 Nel                              100   2004-2006

Alebiosu, O.                         MA  Rhodes                  McGregor, Nel        40     2004-2006

Thornton, A.                         PhD Sussex                   Funnell, Nel             40     2003-2006

Meyer, S.                               MA Rhodes                   Nel                              100   2005-2007

Pio, E                                     MA Rhodes                   Fox, Nel                     40     2005-2007

Williams, R.                         MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2008-2008

Stevenson, T.                        MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2008-2008

Fitchatt, R.                            MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2009-2009

Qwashire-Harry, R              PhD Otago                     Nel, Freeman            50     2008-current

Tamimi, M                            PhD Otago                     Freeman, Nel           40     2008-2013

Ironside, J                             PhD Otago                     Nel, Malam               60     2009-2013

Price, S.                                 MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2009-2009

Baird, S.                                MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2010-2010

Ross, J.                                  PhD Otago                     Nel, Crowe                60     2010-2016

Vista, B.                                PhD Otago                     Binns, Nel                 40     2010-2013

Smart, J.                                PhD Otago                     Binns, Nel                 40     2010-2015

Farminer, A.                         PhD Otago                     Duncan, Nel             30     2010-2013

Goodwin, R.                         MA Otago                      Nel                              100   2009-2011

McNaughton, Catriona       MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2011-2011

Topp, F.                                 MA Otago                      Rosin, Nel                 40     2011-2013

Douma, A.                            MA Otago                      Nel                              100   2012

Taine, K.                               MA Otago                      Nel                              100   2012-2015

Gilroy, J.                               MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2012-2012

Anderson, C.                        MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2013- 2018

Liddle, E.                              MSc Otago                    Mager, Nel               30     2013-2014

Bateman, J.                           PhD Otago                     Binns, Nel                 40     2013-2016

Latai, Anita                           PhD Otago                     Binns, Nel                 40     2013-2016

Elizabeth Soal                      PhD Otago                     Bond, Nel                  30     2015-present

Matthew Keyse                    MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2016

Jessica Rose                          MPlan Otago                 Nel, Connelly           50     2016

Matthew Husband               MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2017

Daniel Babsubis                   PhD Otago                     Binns, Nel                 40     2017-2023

David Wither                        PhD Otago                     Orchiston, Nel         30     2017-2021

Charles Forsyth                    PhD Otago                     Nel, Berg                   60     2017-2022

Rosina Watson                     MA Otago                      Nel                              100   2017-2019

Rachael Fleener                   MA Otago                      Binns, Nel                 50     2017-2024

Ema Uko                               PhD Otago                     Binns, Nel                 40     2017-2021

Leigh Clutterbuck-Young  MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2018

Esther Neill                           MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2018

Sian Stirling                          MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2019

Lyndon Dearlove                 MA Otago                      Nel                              100   2019-2020

Alison Floyd                         PhD Otago                     Connelly, Nel           40     2019-2022

Sammy Bergen                    MA Otago                      Nel                              100   2019-2021

Rudi Kresna                          PhD Otago                     Campbell, Nel         30     2019-2021

Alyssa Ryan                         PhD Otago                     Connelly, Nel           30     2020-current

Shirley Achieng                   PhD Otago                     Jackson, Dawson, Nel     20   2021-23

Courtney Simpson               PhD Otago                     Nel, Stephenson, Kahui    34   2021-current

Della Clark                           MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2021-2022

Khaylm Mitchell                 MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2022

Keegan Wells                       MPlan Otago                 Nel                              60     2023

Kim Kessler                          PhD Otago                     Nel, Stephenson       60     2023-present

Alexis Patell                         MA Otago                      Nel                              100   2023

Mia Tangeny                        MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2024

Ella Walker Smith               MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2024

Laura Hamilton                    MPlan Otago                 Nel                              100   2024

Niloofar Dini                        PhD Otago                     Orchiston, Nel         20     2024-present

7.           Distinctions

1985 – Lord Milner Memorial Prize, Rhodes University.

               1985 – Academic Colours, Rhodes University

               1985 – Academic Medal, Founder Hall, Rhodes University                                                                               

               1998 – Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, Rhodes University

               2016 -  Awarded with a Fellowship of the South African Geographical Society

               2017 -  Awarded with a Fellowship of the Regional Studies Association

               2018 – Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Award

               2020 – Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal

8.           Teaching Activities

(a) Range and level of teaching (Last three years only)

2008- present: University of Otago:

               Geography 102 –Demography and Urban Geography (Course Co-ordinator)

               Geography 214/374 – Economic Geography (Course Co-ordinator)

               Geography 215/384 – Urban Geography

               Geography 280/380 – Research Methods

               Geography 457 – Advanced Urban Geography (Course Co-ordinator)

(b) Publications in curriculum development, student assessment, teaching procedures and teaching

 materials

1998 – Guest Editorial in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education

1999 – Paper in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education

2007 – Nominated for the Rhodes University Teaching Award by student evaluators

2009 – Nominated for a University of Otago Teaching Award

(c) Teaching administration and leadership, quality assurance, evaluation

               Course Coordinator of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Rhodes University and

 the University of Otago

               Resident Director Africa Studies Programme at Rhodes University

Editorial Board Member – Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Commissioning Editor for Australasia for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Managing Editor, New Zealand Geographer.

Executive Committee, New Zealand Geographical Society

(d) Professional development achievements

                                 1986 – Awarded a Higher Diploma in Education

9.           Publications       

(a)         Books – Authored / Edited

               1999-    Regional and Local Economic Development in South Africa, authored book, Nel, E.L.,

                                 Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot. ISBN 1 84014 941 8, 359pp.

               2000-    South Africa: Past, Present and Future, authored book, Lester, A., Nel, E. and Binns, T.,

                                 Pearson Education / Longmans, Harlow. ISBN 0 58235626 1, 374pp.

               2000-    An Evaluation of Community Driven Economic Development, Land Tenure and Sustainable

               Environmental Development in the Kat River Valley, edited by Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R.., HSRC Publishers, Pretoria. ISBN 0-7969-1948-8, 233 pp.

2005:    Local Economic Development in the Developing World: The Experience of Southern Africa,

edited by Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M., Transactions Press, New Brunswick. ISBN 0-7658-0249-X, 358 pp.

2008     The Global Challenge and Marginality, edited by Valenca, M., Nel, E. and Leimgruber, W,

Nova Science, New York. ISBN 1-60021-838-3.

2010      Livelihoods and Vulnerability in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Southern Africa, authored          book by: Shackelton, C.M., Shackelton, S., Gambiza, J., Nel, E. and Rowntree, K.,       Transactions Press, New Brunswick . ISBN 978-1-60876-940-7.

2011     Binns, J.A., Dickson, A. and Nel, E.L., Africa: Diversity and Development, Routledge, London. ISBN978-0-415-41368-8.

2016     Marais, L., Nel, E.L. and Donaldson, R., Secondary Cities and Development in South Africa, Routledge: London ISBN 9781315667683.

2017     Chand, R., Nel., E. and Pelc, S., Societies, Social Inequalities and Marginalization: Marginal Regions in the 21st Century, Springer: Cham ISBN 9783319509976

2017     Potter, R., Binns, T., Elliot, J., Nel, E. and Smith, D., Geographies of Development (4th ed.),

               Routledge, London. ISBN 978-1-138-79430-6

2018     Binns, T., Lynch, K. and Nel, E. Handbook of African Development, Routledge, London. ISBN 978-1-138-89029-9

2020     Nel, E. and Pelc, S., Responses to Geographical Marginality and Marginalization: From

               Social Innovation to Regional Development. Springer Nature: Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-51341-

               2.

2020     Regional and Local Economic Development in South Africa, authored book, Nel, E.L.

               Routledge Revivals, Routledge., London. ISBN 9781138334670.

2022     Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Pelc, S. (eds.)  COVID-19 and Marginalization of People and Places, Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978-3-031-11138-9

2023     Binns, J.A., Dickson, A. and Nel, E.L., Africa: Diversity and Development, Routledge, London. (2nd edition)

2024     Freeman, C. and Nel E. The Caring City, Routledge, London.

(b)         Books - Edited Conference Proceedings

                                                   1995 -  Nel, E.L.,Local Economic Development in South Africa: A Review of Current Policy and Applied Case-Studies, Proceeding of a Workshop on Local Economic Development, held at Midrand, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg. ISBN: 0-86810-304-7.

1996-    Nel, E.L. and Lindie, M., Local Economic Development in South Africa: Recent Developments ans Strategies, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Local Economic Development held at Midrand  in December 1995, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg. ISBN: 0-86810-306-3.

2007     Jones, G., Leimgruber, W. And Nel, E. (eds), Issues in Geographical marginality: Papers

presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Evolving Issues of geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World, 2001-2004, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. ISBN: 9780868104416.

2010      Geographical Marginality as a global issue:  Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Marginalization, Globalization And Local And Regional Response, 2004 – 2007, Leimgruber, W., Nel, E., Matsuo, Y., Binns, T., Chand, R., Cullen, B., Lynch, D., Pradhan, P.K. (Eds), 2010:, International Geographical Union, Commission C08-47, Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin. ISBN 978-0-473-17042-4, 527 pages.

2012     Mountain regions in transformation: Global processes, Regional and Local Impacts and

Responses, Leimgruber, W., Zsilincsar, W. and Nel, E. (Eds), Shaker, Aachen . ISBN 978-3-8440-0930-9, 239 pages

(c)         Book Chapters

               1989 ‑   Weaver, A., Berry, B.B. and Nel, E.L.,`A review of the  temporal and spatial heterogeneity in water supply and demand patterns in South Africa', in Fox, R.L. and McI Daniel, J.D. (eds.): Fifty Years of Geography at Rhodes University; Essays in Honour of J.V.L. Rennie, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 421‑432.

               1991 -  Fox, R.C., Reintges, C. and Nel, E.L., `East London', in Lemon, T. (ed.): Homes Apart:

                                 South Africa's Segregated Cities, Paul Chapman, London, 58-70.    

               1992 -  Nel, E.L. and Temple, J., Industrial Development and Decentralization in East London

               and its Hinterland, in van Pletsen, L. and Hurter, J.J. (eds.), Industrial Policy and Development      in South Africa, Industrial Development Corporation,  Sandton, 199-232.

               1997 -   Nel, E. and Hill, T., The Role of Small Urban Centres in Economic Recovery and

Regional Development, in United Nations Centre for Regional Development Research project on Small Urban Centres, The Role of Small Urban centres in Economic Recovery and Regional Development, UNCRD, Nairobi, 138-162.

1997 -  Fox, R.F. and Nel, E.L., Pension payouts, periodic marketing and the continuance of

urban dependence in rural South Africa; problems and prospects for post-apartheid rural development planning, in United Nations Centre for Human Settlement (Habitat)(eds), Regional Development Planning and the Management of Urbanization: A Global Review, United Nations Centre for Human Settlement (Habitat), Nairobi.

               1999 -  Nel, E.L., Local Government and Local Economic Development, in Atkinson, D. and

                                 Retiz, M.(eds.), From a Tier to a Sphere: Local Government in the New Constitutional

Order in South Africa, Electoral Institute of South Africa's, Heinemann, Johannesburg, p.152-170.

1999 - Fox, R.C. and Nel, E.L., 1999: De-industrialization in South Africa’s Rural

Periphery: The Interplay of Institutional and Economic Trends in the Eastern Cape Province, in van Dijk, J. and Pellenberg, P. (eds.), Demography of Firms: Spatial Dynamics of Firm Behaviour, Dutch Royal Geographical Society, University of Gronigen, Uitrecht/Gronignen, Netherlands, Chapter 12, p.245-254.

               2000 -   Nel, E.L., Economic Restructuring and Local Economic Development in South Africa, in

Khosa, M. (ed.), Infrastructure Mandate for Change, 1994-1999, HSRC publishers, Pretoria, 197-211.

               2000 -   Nel, E.L., Economic and Development, in Fox, R. And Rowntree, K., The Geography of South Africa in a Changing World, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.114-137.

                                 2002 -  Nel, E.L., Manufacturing, in Lemon, A. and Rogerson, C.M. (eds.), Geography and Economy in South Africa and its Neighbours, Ashgate, Aldershot, 81-94.

2004 -   Nel, E.L., Evolving participatory governance and development local government in post-apartheid South Africa, in Lovan, P., Murray, M. and Shaffer, R. (eds.), Participatory Governance: Planning, Conflict Mediation and Public Decision-Making with Civil Society, Ashgate, Aldershot, 23-38.

2004 -  Nel, E.L., Hill, T. and Eising, W., Local Economic Development in Cato Manor, in Robinson,

P.,McCarthy, J. and Forster, C., Urban Reconstruction in the Developing World, Heinemann,

Sandown,  pp. 347-372.

2004 -  Nel, E.L. and Illgner, P.M., The contribution of bees to livelihoods in southern Africa, in Fabricus, C., Kock, E., Magome, H. and Turner, S. (eds.), Rights, Resources and Rural Development: Community Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa, Earthscan, London, 127-134.

2004-    Hill, TR. & Nel, E., 2004: Thoughts of Rural Development Researchers in South Africa, in:

Fincham, R, Georg, S., & Nielsen, EH. Beyond the Earth Summit: The role of universities in the search for sustainable futures. Chapter 7, pages 139-169. Publishers: Brevitas, Howick, ISBN 1 87497647-3

                                                   2005 –  Nel, E.L., Local Economic Development in Small Towns in South Africa, in Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M. (eds.), Local Economic Development in the Developing World: The Experience of Southern Africa, Transactions Press, New Brunswick, 253-266.

2005 –  Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M, Introduction, in Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M. (eds.), Local

Economic Development in the Developing World: The Experience of Southern Africa,

Transactions Press, New Brunswick, 1-16.

2005 –  Nel, E.L. and Binns, T., Putting “Developmental Local Government” in practise: the

experience of South Africa’s towns and cities, in Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M. (eds.), Local Economic Development in the Developing World: The Experience of Southern Africa, Transactions Press, New Brunswick, 37-56.

2005 –  Nel, E.L., Hill, T. and Maharaj, B., Durban’s pursuit of economic development in the post-apartheid era, in Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M. (eds.), Local Economic Development in the Developing World: The Experience of Southern Africa, Transactions Press, New Brunswick, 253-266.

2006 -  Nel, E.L. and John., L. The evolution of Local Economic Development policy in South

                                 Africa, in Pillay, J., du Toit, J. and Tomlinson, R., State of the Cities Project, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, 218-229

2007 – Nel, E. and Binns, T., Evolving economic marginality and local economic development

responses in selected South African Gold and Coal Mining Areas, in,  Jones, G., Leimgruber, W. And Nel, E. (eds), Issues in Geographical marginality: Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Evolving Issues of geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World, 2001-2004, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. ISBN: 9780868104416, 38-45.

2007 – Nel, E. and Binns, T., Evaluating ‘developmental local government’ in South Africa’s cities, in

Jones, G., Leimgruber, W. And Nel, E. (eds), Issues in Geographical marginality: Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Evolving Issues of geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World, 2001-2004, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. ISBN: 9780868104416, 2-13.

2007 – Nel, E.L., Davidson, J. and Thornton, A., Pandemic and panacea: urban agriculture as a

community-based response to HIV/AIDS ?, in Jones, G., Leimgruber, W. And Nel, E. (eds), Issues in Geographical marginality: Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Evolving Issues of geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World, 2001-2004, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. ISBN: 9780868104416, 14-23.

2007- Binns, T., Bek, D., Nel, E., & Ellison, B. Sidestepping the mainstream: Fairtrade Rooibos tea

production in Wupperthal, South Africa. In D. Maye, L. Holloway, & M. Kneafsey (Eds.), Alternative food geographies: Representation and practice. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 331-350.

2008- Nel, E., Valenca, M. and Leimgruber, W., Introduction, The Global Challenge and Marginality,

edited by Valenca, M., Nel, E. and Leimgruber, W, Nova Science, New York. ISBN 1-60021-838-3, 1-12

2008 –Nel, E. and Binns, J., Evolving economic marginality and local econimc development responses

in selected South African gold and coal mining areas, The Global Challenge and Marginality, edited by Valenca, M., Nel, E. and Leimgruber, W, Nova Science, New York. ISBN 1-60021-838-3, 197-208.

2010 – Nel, E., Reflections on the Experience of Local Economic Development in the Eastern Cape, in Ruiters, G., Provinces in Contention: The Politics of Scale and the Fate of the Eastern Cape, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg.

2010 – Nel, E., The Experience of Local and Regional Development in Africa, in Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A. and Tomaney, J., Handbook of Local and Regional Development, Routledge, London.

2010 - Nel, E. and Binns, T. 2010: Evaluating local economic development initiatives in South Africa:

evidence from the cities, Leimgruber, W., Nel, E., Matsuo, Y., Binns, T., Chand, R., Cullen, B., Lynch, D., Pradhan, P.K. (Eds), 2010: Geographical Marginality as a global issue:  Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Marginalization, Globalization And Local And Regional Response, 2004 – 2007, International Geographical Union, Commission C08-47, Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin. ISBN 978-0-473-17042-4, Vol 5, 53-71.

2012 – Nel, E. and Stevenson, T., Small Town New Zealand: Reflections on local responses to geographical marginalization, in Leimgruber, W., Zsilincsar, W. and Nel, E., Mountain Regions in Transformation, Shaker, Acahen, 85-99.

2012 – Nel, E. and Hoogensdoorn, G., Exploring Small Town Development Dynamics in Rural South

Africa’s Post-Productivist Landscapes, in Donaldson, R. and Marais, L. (Eds), Small Town Geographies in Africa, Nova Science, New York, 21-34.

2013 – Nel, E., Binns, T. and Bek, D., Fair Trade and Alternative Food Networks in the

Internationalization of Small-Scale Rural Entrepreneurs in South Africa, In Etemad, H. (ed.), The Process of Internationalization of Internationalization in Emerging SMEs and Emerging Economies , Elgar, Northampton, 234-259.

               2013 - Nel, E., & Illgner, P. (2013). The contribution of bees to livelihoods in southern Africa. In Rights

Resources and Rural Development (pp. 142-149). Routledge.

2014 - Thornton, A. and Nel, E. (2014) Cyclones, cash crops and capitalism: the potential for niche

market agriculture in a period of deepening systemic change in Samoa. In Sakai M., Jurriens E., Zhang, J. and Thornton A. (eds) Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific: Agency and Resilience Routledge: London, 171-188.

2014: Nel, E., South African Urban Growth, 1911-2001, in Michalos, A.C. (Ed), Encyclopedia of

                Quality of Life Research, Springer: Berlin, 6228-6233.

2014: Nel, E., Marginality, geographic space and demographic and flux, in Cepparo, M.E., Prieto, E.B.

and Gabrielidis, G. (Eds),  Rasgos de Marginalidad. Diferentes Enfoques Y Aportes Para Abordar Problematica.: Malargues, Un Ejemplo Motivador, Facultad de Filospiay Letras, Universidad Nacionel de Cuyo; Mendoza, 273-289.

2014: Nel, E., Marginalidad, espacio geografico y flujos demograficaos, in Cepparo, M.E., Prieto, E.B.

and Gabrielidis, G. (Eds),  Rasgos de Marginalidad. Diferentes Enfoques Y Aportes Para Abordar Problematica.: Malargues, Un Ejemplo Motivador, Facultad de Filospiay Letras, Universidad Nacionel de Cuyo; Mendoza, 291-314.

2014     Nel, E., responding changing fortunes: The experience of small town New

Zealand, Roche, M., Mansevlet, J., Price, R. and Gallagher, A., (ed.), Engaging Geographies:

Landscapes, Lifecourses and Mobilities, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne,

63-86.

2016:   Marais, L., Nel, E.L. and Donaldson, R., Secondary Cities in South Africa, national settlement patterns and urban research, in Marais, L., Nel, E.L. and Donaldson, R., Secondary Cities and Development in South Africa, Routledge: London, 1-26.

2016:    Marais, L., Nel, E.L. and Donaldson, R., The role of secondary cities in South Africa’s development, in Marais, L., Nel, E.L. and Donaldson, R., Secondary Cities and Development in South Africa, Routledge: London, 27-48.

2016:    Marais, L., Nel, E.L. and Donaldson, R., The role of secondary cities in South Africa’s development, in Marais, L., Nel, E.L. and Donaldson, R., Secondary Cities and Development in South Africa, Routledge: London, 159-178.

2017:    Connelly, S. and Nel, E., Restructuring the New Zealand Economy: Global-local links and

evidence from the West Coast and Southland regions, in Halseth, G. (Ed), Economic Restructuring, Routledge, London, 112-136.

2017:   Nel, E. and Connelly, S..  Employment and Labour in New Zealand: Recent trends and reflections on developments in the West Coast and Southland regions, in Halseth, G. (Ed), Economic Restructuring, Routledge, London 221-242.

2017:   Connelly, S. and Nel, E., Community responses to restructuring, in Halseth, G. (Ed), Economic Restructuring, Routledge, London, 317-335.

2017     Bateman, J. Binns, T. and Nel, E. Flirting with Food Security: Resilience in the Face of Conflict, Climate Change and   Communicable Diseases in Rural Sierra Leone, in Thomas-Hope, E. (Ed.) Climate Change and Food Security: Africa and the Caribbean, Routledge, London, 128-142.

2017     Jackson, T., Nel, E., & Connelly, S., Subnational rural governance and development: Case studies of England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In E. Schoburgh & R. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of research on sub-national governance and development. (pp. 117-149). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1645-3.ch006

2018     Marais, M., Haslam Mackenzie, F., Nel, E., van Rooyen, D. and Burger, P., 2018: The way forward for Postmasburg, in Burger, P., Marais, L. and van Rooyen, D. (eds.), Mining and Community in South Africa: from Small Town to Iron Town, Taylor and Francis, London. (pp. 229-243).

2019     Nel, E. and Stevenson, T., Demographic and Economic change in small towns in New Zealand

               and the responses to marginalization, in Leimgruber, L. and Chang, C.D. (Eds.) Rural Areas

               between regional needs and global challenges, Springer: Berlin (pp. 177-189).

2019     Binns, J. and Nel, E., Urban Agriculture in Zambia, in Leimgruber, L. and Chang, C.D. (Eds.)

               Rural Areas between regional needs and global challenges, Springer: Berlin (pp. 227-242).

2019     Marais, L. and Nel, E. Coal, energy and local development: cure or curse? (in preparation).

2019     Binns, J. and Nel, E, Reconceptualizing urban agriculture in Africa: Issues of scale, class and

               institutional support: evidence from the Zambian Copperbelt, in Thornton, A. (ed) Urban

               Food Transitions in the Global North & South, International Political Economy Series (IPE)

               Palgrave: Cham (pp 213-229).

2019     Nel, E. and Connelly, S., Rural Health Service Delivery Challenges in an era of neo-liberalism in New Zealand in Greg Halseth, Sean Markey and Laura Ryser Markey (Eds.) Service Provision and Rural Sustainability: Infrastructure and Innovation, Routledge, London (pp. 65-79).

2019     Hoogendoorn, G. and Nel, E., Small town change in South Africa, in Knight, J. and Rogerson

               C. (Eds) The Geography of South Africa, Springer, Cham (pp. 153-158).

2020     Marais, L., Donaldson, R. and Nel, E., Secondary Cities in South Africa, in Massey, R. and

 Gunter, A. (eds.), Urban Geography in South Africa, Routledge, London. (pp121-138).

               2020     Jackson, T., Nel, E., Connelly, S. (2020) “A Comparison of Resource Equalisation Processes                           for Subnational Rural Governance and Development: Case Studies of England, Scotland,

                                 Canada, Australia and New Zealand”, reprinted as Ch. 98, Open Government: Concepts,

                                 Methodologies, Tools and Applications, Information Resources Management Association

                                 (USA), ICI Global, Hershey PA, USA, 2020, pp. 2140-2172 (ISBN13:9781522598602)

                                 DOI:104018/978-1-5225-9860-2.           

2020      Stevenson, T., & Nel, E. (2020). Responding to Marginalization: A Case Study of Small                 Towns in Western Australia, in Nel, E. and Plec, S. (Eds), Responses to Geographical       Marginality and Marginalization, Springer, Cham, 103-120

2020     Pelc, S. and Nel, E., Social Innovation and Geographical Marginality. In Nel, E. and Pelc, S.                           (Eds) Responses to Geographical Marginality and Marginalization. Springer, Cham, 11-21.

2020     Nel, E. and Pelc, C., Introduction, in Nel, E. and Pelc, S. (Eds) Responses to Geographical                               Marginality and Marginalization. Springer, Cham, 1-8.

2021     Seethal, C., Nel, E., and Balywa, J., From East London to Buffalo City Metropole, in Lemon, T., Donaldson, R. and Visser, G. (Eds) Homes Still Apart, Springer, Cham, 103-116.

2021     Nel, E. and Stevenson, T., The Role of Farmers in Small-Town Community Development in an Age of Austerity: Reflections from Australasia, in Bansk1, J. (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Small Town, Routledge, London.

2021     Marais, L., Burton, J., Campbell, M. and Nel, E., Mine closure and the coal industry: global and national peprectives, in Marais, L. (ed.) Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 34-43.

2022     Nel, E., Development as a Northern Priority: Evolving Regional Development Theory and Practise, in Engel, S., Routledge Handbook of Global Development, Routledge: London (47-58).

2022     Nel, E., Shrinking Towns and Cities, Brears, R.C. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures,  Chapter 162-1, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_162-1.

2022     Connelly, S. and Nel, E., New Localism: new Regionalism, Brears, R.C. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures,  Chapter 164-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_144-1.

2022     Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Plec, S., Introduction, Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Pelc, S. (eds.)  COVID-19 and Marginalization of People and Places, Springer, Cham. 1-6. ISBN: 978-3-031-11138-9.

 2022    Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Plec, S., COVID-19s Economic and Social Impact Globally, Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Pelc, S. (eds.)  COVID-19 and Marginalization of People and Places, Springer, Cham. 9-26. ISBN: 978-3-031-11138-9.

2022     Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Plec, S., Some conclusions about COVID-19s impact on marginality and marginalisation, Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Pelc, S. (eds.)  COVID-19 and Marginalization of People and Places, Springer, Cham. 233-238. ISBN: 978-3-031-11138-9.

2022     Nel, E., Exacerbating marginalisation: COVID-19s impact on peripheral, tourism-dependent regions in New Zealand and local response, Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E. and Pelc, S. (eds.)  COVID-19 and Marginalization of People and Places, Springer, Cham. 131-142. ISBN: 978-3-031-11138-9

2024     Alam, A., Nel, E. and Bergen, S., New Zealand’s Small-Town Disruptions and the Role of Immigrant Mobilities, in Triandafyllidou, A. et al. (Eds)(2024) Migration, Diversity and the City, Springer, Cham, pp 121-141. ISBN 978-3-031-55679-1

2023     Regional Development Reflections: Steve Dery, Walter Leimgruber,

               Borna Fuerst- Bjelis, Etienne Nel, Marginality issues in a time of world reorganization: the

               work of the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization and Local and Regional

Response In Banski, J. and Meadows, M. (eds) Research Directions, Challenges and Achievements of Modern Geography, Springer, Cham.

2023     Nel, E., South African Urban Growth, 1911-2011, in Maggino, A.C. (Ed), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Springer: Berlin, 6749-6755.

2024 – Nel, E. and Marais, L., South Africa’s sustainability transition: the case of the Mpumalanga

province and its coal-dependent community in Halonen, M., Albrecht, M. and Kuhmonen, I

Rescaling Sustainability Transitions: Unfolding Power Relations, Governance Arrangements,

and the Spatialities of Socio-Economic Systems, Springer, Cham (in Press)

2024 – Connelly, S., Nel, E. and Lomas, D., Exploring ‘Just’ Transitions in Regional Aotearoa New

Zealand: Cases of Taranaki and Southland in Halonen, M., Albrecht, M. and Kuhmonen, I

Rescaling Sustainability Transitions: Unfolding Power Relations, Governance Arrangements,

and the Spatialities of Socio-Economic Systems, Springer, Cham (in Press)

2024 – Nel, E., Regional Development in an era of neoliberalism: reflections on international thinking

 and implications for policy and practise in South Africa, in…

(d)        Refereed Journal Articles

               1986 ‑   Weaver, A., Berry, B.B. and Nel, E.L., `A review of the temporal and spatial heterogeneity in water supply and demand patterns in South Africa',   South African Geographical Journal, vol.68, 154‑163.

               1990 -   Nel, E.L.,`Mdantsane: The Evolution of an Ethno‑City',  GeoJournal, vol.6., 2, 305-313.

               1991 -   Nel, E.L.,`Racial Segregation in East London, 1836-1948', South African Geographical Journal, 7, 2, 60-68.

               1992 -   Nel, E.L. and Berry, B.B.,`The Problems of Supplying Water to Third World Cities: Bulawayo's Water Crisis', Development Southern Africa, 9, 4, 411-422.

               1993 -   Nel, E.L. and Temple, J.,`Industrial Development and Decentralization: Transkei and the Eastern Cape, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 11,2, 154-178.

               1993 -   Berry, B.B. and Nel, E.L., `Operation Pipeline' -Bulawayo's Search for Water, Geography, 73, 2, 312-5.

               1993 -   Ownhouse, S. and Nel, E.L., The `Greying' of Central: A Case Study of Racial Residential Desegregation in Port Elizabeth, Urban Forum, 4, 1, 81-92.

               1993 -   Nel, E.L. and Berry, B.B., Bulawayo's Water Shortage: An Update, Development Southern Africa, 10, 1, 79-83.

               1993 -   Nel, E.L., The Border Kei Development Forum: A Description and Assessment, Urban Forum, 4, 1, 82-88.

               1994 -   Nel, E.L., Export Processing Zones: An International Overview and an Assessment of their Applicability in South Africa, Development Southern Africa, 11, 1, 99-111.

               1994 -   Nel, E.L., Local Development Initiatives, a new development paradigm for urban areas an assessment with reference to Stutterheim, Development Southern Africa, 11,3, 363-378.

               1994 -   Nel, E.L., Regional Development in South Africa: from apartheid planning to the reform era, Geography Research Forum, 14, 13-29.

               1994 -   Nel, E.L., The African National Congress's Reconstruction and Development Programme: An Agenda for Social and Economic Restructuring in South Africa, Regional Studies, 28, 7, 754-758.

               1995 -   Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M., Incipient local economic development in the Eastern Cape, 1909-1947, Contree: Journal of South African Urban and Regional History, 37, 1-9.

               1995 -   Nel, E.L., A Comment on: Kariba, Zimbabwe, Whose Town?, Regional Development Dialogue, 16, 2, 144-145.

               1996 -   Hill, T.R. and Nel, E.L., The State of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Training and Research in South African Universities, Development Southern Africa, 13, 1 149-154.

               1996 -   Nel, E.L. and Meston, A., Local Economic Development in Atlantis, South Africa, GeoJournal, 39, 89-96.

               1996 -   Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R., Community-Based Rural Development in Hertzog, South Africa, Geography, 81, 3, 273-275.

               1996 -   Nel, E.L. and Smakhtin, V., A New Rural Dispensation?: An Examination of Community  Development, Public Works Programmes and Land Resettlement in RA 60, in the Whittlesea District, Development Southern Africa, 13, 3, 441-452.

               1996 -   Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M., The application of Local Economic Development in East  London, South Africa, 1927-1955, Urban Forum, 7, 1, 69-89.

               1996 -   Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R., Rural Development in Hertzog, Eastern Cape: Successful Local Economic Development, Development Southern Africa, 13, 6, 861-870.

               1996 -   Nel, E.L., Export Processing Zones in Zimbabwe: Establishment Considerations, Geographical Journal of Zimbabwe, 27, 1-10.

1996/7- Nel, E.L., An Examination of the Implementation, Effects and Implications of Regional Planning in the Border-Ciskei- Transkei Region of South Africa,  Regional Development Studies, 3, 1-25. 

               1997 -   Binns, T., Hill, T.R. and Nel, E.L., Learning from the people: participatory rural appraisal and geography in rural development in the `New' South Africa, Applied Geography, 17, 1, 1-9.

               1997 -   Nel, E.L., Evolving Local Economic Development Policy in South Africa, Regional Studies, 31,1, 67-72.

               1997 -  Nel, E. L., & Mini, S. Racial and economic subjugation on South Africa's Eastern Cape frontier. Progress in Planning, 47, 261-274.

               1997 -   Nel, E.L., Binns, T. and Hill, T.R., Development From Below in the `New' South Africa: The Case of Hertzog, Eastern Cape, The Geographical Journal, 163, 1, 57-64.

               1997 - Nel, E.L., NGO Facilitated Local Economic Development: The Case of Seymour, Urban Forum, 8, 2.

1997 -  Nel, E.L., Recent Economic and Employment Trends, South African Labour  Bulletin, 21, 4,

               10-12.

               1998 -   Nel, E.L., Guest Editorial - The State of Geography in Higher Education in South Africa, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 22, 1, 7-9.

               1998 -   Fox, R.F. and Nel, E.L., Pension payouts, periodic marketing and the continuance of urban dependence in rural South Africa, South African Geographical Journal, 80, 2, 108-110.

               1998 -   Hill, T. R. and Nel, E.L., Small Towns in the Eastern Cape, Urban Forum, 9, 1,  131-142.

               1999 -   Motteux, N., Binns, T., Nel, E. and Rowntree, K.,Empowerment for Development: Taking Participatory Appraisal Further in Rural South Africa, Development in Practice, 9,3, 261-173.

               1999 -   Nel, E.L. and Binns, T., Changing the Geography of Apartheid Education in South Africa, Geography, 84, 2, 119-128.

               1999 -   Nel, E.L. and Humphrys, G., The Role of Government in Development: An Examination of Evolving Local Economic Development Policy and Practice in South Africa, Development Southern Africa, 16, 2, 277-189..

               1999 -   Nel, E.L. and Davies, J., Farming Against the Odds: An Examination of the Challenges Facing Farming and Rural Development in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, Applied Geography, 19, 253-274.

1999 -  Nel, E.L., The Geography Discipline Guides to good Teaching, Learning and Assessment Practice; a Southern African Perspective, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 23, 2, 252-257.

                                                   1999 -  Motteux, N., Nel, E., Rowntree, K. and Binns, J.A., Participatory Rural Appraisal in the Kat River valley, South Africa, Community Development Journal, 34, 3,  227-231. .

               1999 -   Illgner, P., Nel, E.L. and Robertson, M.P., Local Self-reliance in Rural Southern Africa: The Role and Potential of Beekeeping, The Geographical Review, 88, 3, 349-362.

                                                   1999 -  Binns, T. And Nel, E.L., Beyond the Development Impasse: Local Economic Development and Community Self-reliance in South Africa, Journal of Modern African Studies 37, 2, 389-408.

               1999 -   Hill, T.R. and Nel, E.L., The Kat River Study: The People-Environment Interface, In Focus Forum, 6, 4, 25-29.

1999 -  Holness, S., Nel, E. and Binns, T., the Changing Nature of Informal Street Trading in Post-apartheid South Africa: the Case of East London’s Central Business District, Urban Forum, 2, 284-302.

2000 -  Lester, A., Nel, E. and Binns, T., South Africa’s Current Transition in Temporal and Spatial

               Context, Antipode, 32, 2, 135-151.

               2000-  Nel, E., Illgner, P.M., Wilkins, K. and Robertson, M.P., Rural Self-Reliance in Bondolfi, Zimbabwe: The Role of Beekeeping, The Geographical Journal, 166, 1, p. 26-34.

               2000-   Nel, E.L. and Binns, J.A., Rural Self-reliance Strategies in South Africa: Community Initiatives in the Former Homelands, Journal of Rural Studies, 16, 367-377.

               2000 -  Hill, T.R., Nel, E.L. and Boddington, A.M., Integrating Geographical Information Systems and Geography in Tertiary Education, South Africa, The South African Geographical Journal, 82, 2, 86-91.

2000 -  Illgner, P.M. and Nel, E.L., The Geography of Edible Insects in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study of the Mopane Caterpillar,  The Geographical Journal, 166, 4, 336-351.

               2001 -  Hill, T.R., Motteux, N., Nel, E.L. and Papalouzia, G., Integrating Rural Community and Expert Knowledge through applied Participatory Rural Appraisal in the Kat River Valley, South Africa, South African Geographical Journal, 83, 1, 1-7.

                                                   2001 - Nel, E.L. and Illgner, P.M., Tapping Lesotho's `White Gold' - Inter-basin Water Transfer in Southern Africa, Geography, 86, 163-167.

2001 -  Nel, E.L. and Binns, J.A., Initiating ‘Developmental Local Government’ in South Africa: Evolving Local Economic Development Policy, Regional Studies, 35, 4, 355-362.

2001 -  Binns, J.A. and Nel, E.L., Gold Loses Its Shine - Decline and Response in The South African Goldfields, Geography, 86, 2, 255-260.

2001 -  Nel, E.L., Local Economic Development: A Review and Assessment of its Current Status in South Africa, Urban Studies, 38, 7, 1003-1024.

2001 -  Nel, E.L. and Hill, T., De-industrialisation and Local Economic Development Alternatives in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Geography, 86, 4, 356-359.

2001 -  Binns, J.A., Illgner, P.M. and Nel, E.L., Water Shortage, Deforestation and Development: South Africa’s Working for Water Programme, Land Degradation and Development, 12, 341-355.

2001 -  Nel, E.L., Binns, T. and Motteux, N., Social Capital and non-governmental organizations in community-based development in post-Apartheid South Africa: a re-evaluation of the Hertzog Agricultural Co-operative: Geografiska Annaler, Series B, 83B, 1, 3-13.

2002 -  Binns, J.A. and Nel, E.L., Supporting Local Economic Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Local Economy, 17, 1, 8-24.

                                 2002-  Nel, E.L. and McQuaid, R., Critical Reflections on the Evolution of Experience of Local Economic Development in Stutterheim, South Africa and the Role of Social Capital, Economic Development Quarterly, 16, 1,  60-74.

                                 2002 - Binns, J.A. and Nel, E.L., Devolving development: integrated development planning and developmental local government in post-apartheid South Africa, Regional Studies, 36, 8, 921-932.

2002 -  Binns, J.A. and Nel, E.L., Tourism as a local development strategy in South Africa, Geographical Journal, 168, 3, 235-247.

                                 2002 - Nel, E.L. and Binns, J.A., Place Marketing, Tourism Promotion and Local Economic Development in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Still Bay - the ‘Bay of Sleeping Beauty’,  Urban Affairs Review, 38, 2, 184-208.

2002 -  Nel, E.L. and Binns, J.A., Decline and response in South Africa’s Free State goldfields, International Development Planning Review , 24, 3, 249-269.

2003 -     Binns, J.A. and Nel, E.L., The village in the game park : community response to the demise of coal mining in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Economic Geography, 79, 1, 41-66.

2003 - Nel, E.L. and Binns, J.A., Decentralizing development in South Africa,  Geography, 88, 2, 108-116.

2003 - Nel, E.L; Hill, T.R., Aithchison, K. and Buethezi, S., The Closure of Coal Mines and Local Development Response in the Coal Rim Cluster, Northern Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, Development Southern Africa, 20, 3, 1-19.

2003 –     Nel, E.L. and Binns, J.A., Putting ‘Developmental Local Government’ into practise: the experiences of South Africa’s towns and cities, Urban Forum, 14, 2-3, 165-184.

2003 -  Nel, E.L., Hill, T.R. and Maharaj, M., Durban’s Pursuit of Economic Development in the Post-Apartheid Era, Urban Forum, 14, 2-3, 223-243.

2003 – Nel, E.L., Binns, J.A. and Simon, D. (Guest Editors), Special Issue: Local Economic Development in Africa, Urban Forum, 14, 2-3,  127-300.

2003 – Hill, T.R., Trotter, D. and Nel, E.L.,  De-industrialization and Local Response in South Africa: The Case of Mooi River, Kwazulu Natal,  African Insight , 33, 4,  40-46.

2004 –  Bek, D., Binns, J.A. and Nel, E.L., ‘Catching the development train’; Perspectives on ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ development in post-apartheid South Africa.  Progress in Development Studies, 4, 1, 22-46.

2004 – Nel, E.L., Hill, T.R. and Goodenough, C., Global coal demand, South Africa’s coal industry           and the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, Geography, 89, 3, 292-297.

2005 – Bek, D., Binns, T. and Nel, E., Regional Economic Growth through Institutional

Development: ‘Dividends on the Process Side’ in South Africa’s West Coast Region? Tijdschrift voor Economiche en.SocialeGeografie,  96, 2, 168-183.

2005 –  Rogerson, C.M. and Nel, E., Decentralisation and local initiatives for development: African

Perspectives, Africa Insight, 35, 4, 3.

2005 –  Nel, E.L. and Rogerson, C.M., Pro-poor Local Economic Development in South Africa’s Cities: Policy and Practise, Africa Insight, 35, 4, 21-30.

2005-    Binns, J.A., Porter, G., Nel, E.L. and Kyei, P., Decentralizing poverty? Obstructions to developmental local government in sub-Saharan Africa, Africa Insight, 35, 4, 21-30.

2005 –  Nel, E., Illgner, P. and Hill, T., Cultivating Success in Malawi: Community-Based Mushroom

Growing As An Alternative Livelihood Strategy, Africa Insight, 35, 4, 105-111.

2005 -  Gardyne, S., Hill, T.R. and Nel, E.L., Local Government Response to Poverty: A Case Study

of Pro-Poor Development In The Ingwe Municipality, Africa Insight, 35, 4, 121-129.

2005 –  Marais, L., Nel, E. and Rogerson, C., Manufacturing In The Former Homeland Areas Of

South Africa: The Example Of Free State Province, Africa Insight, 35, 4, 39-44.

2006 –  Hill, T., Nel, E.L. and Trotter, D.,  Nature Based Tourism As A Pro-Poor Development

Intervention: Case Studies From Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27, 163-175.

2006 -  Nel, E.L., Rogerson, C.M. and Marais, L. Restructuring manufacturing in South Africa’s

lagging regions: the case of the Free State, South African Geographical Journal, 88,1, 48-57.

2006 -  Nel, E.L., Rogerson, C.M. and Marais, L. Manufacturing in the former Homeland areas of 

               South Africa: the example of the Free State, Africa Insight, 39, 4, 39-44.

               2006 –  Bek, D., Binns, T., Nel, E and Ellison B., Achieving grassroots transformation in post

-apartheid South Africa, International Journal of Development Issues, 5, 2, 65-94.

2007 -  Nel, E.L., Bek, D. and Binns, T., ‘Alternate Foods’ and community-based development:

Rooibos tea production in South Africa’s West Coast mountains, Applied Geography, 27, 112-129.

2007-    Hill, T.R., Nel, E.L. and Illgner, P., Partnership For Success – Community-Based Economic

Development: A Case Study Of Ngolowindo Co-Operative, Malawi, Environment and Planning C., 25, 4, 573-590.

2007 –  Hampwaye, G., Nel, E. and Rogerson, C., Urban Agriculture As Local Initiative in

 Lusaka, Zambia, Environment and Planning C. , 25, 4, 553-572.

2007 –  Nel, E., Critical Reflections On Urban And Local Development In Africa: An Introduction,

Environment and Planning C. , 25, 4, 459-465.

2007 –  Gibb, M, and Nel, E., Small Town Redevelopment: The Benefits and Costs of Local      Economic Development in Alicedale, Urban Forum, 18, 2, 69-84.

2007 –  Nel, E., Hill, T. and Goodenough, C., Multi-stakeholder driven Local Economic Development:

Reflections from the experience of Richards Bay and uMhlatuze Municipality, Urban Forum, 18, 2, 31-47.

2007 –  Nel, E. and Rogerson, C.: Evolving Local Economic Development Policy and Practice in

South Africa with Special Reference to Smaller Urban Centres, Urban Forum, 18, 2, 1-11.

2007:    Thornton, A. C. and Nel, E., The Significance Of Urban And Peri-Urban Agriculture In

Peddie, in The Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, Africanus, 37, 1, 13-20.

2008:     Hampwaye, G., Miller, D., Nel, E., Malling in Lusaka, Zambia, African Sociological Review,

 12, 1/ 2 , 35-54..

2008:     Nel, E.L. and Hill, T, Marginalisation and Demographic Change in the Semi-Arid

Karoo, South Africa, Journal of Arid Environments, 72, 2264-2274.

         2009: Davidson, Jean, H.; du Preez, Leanne; Gibb, Matthew, W.; Nel, Etienne, L., It’s in the

                     Bag! Using Simulation as a participatory learning method to understand poverty,

Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 33, 2, 149-168.

                     2009:  Nel, E. And Rogerson, C.M., Re-thinking spatial inequalities in South Africa: Lessons from International Experience, Urban Forum, 20, 141-155.

         2009: Nel, E., Binns, T. and Bek, D., Misplaced expectations ? The experience of applied

local economic development in post-apartheid South Africa, Local Economy, 24, 3, 224-237.

2010: Thornton, A., Nel, E. and Hampwaye, G., Cultivating Kaunda’s  Plan for Self-Sufficiency: Is                                 Urban Agriculture (finally) getting another look in Zambia, Development Southern Africa, 27,                        4, 613-625.

2010: Bek, D., Binns. J., Nel, E.L. Wild flower harvesting in South Africa’s Agulhas Plain: A

mechanism for achieving sustainable Local Economic Development, Sustainable Development, 21, 5, 281-293. (Published online 19 Oct 2010: doi: 10.1002/sd.499).

               2011: Nel, E.L., Taylor, B., Hill, T. and Atkinson, D., Demographic and economic changes in small

                                 towns in South Africa’s Karoo: looking from the inside out, Urban Forum, 22, 4, 395-410.

2011: Nel, E.L., Rethinking patterns of South African urban growth: 1911-2001, Urban Forum, 22, 4,

               331-342.

2012: Vista, B., Nel, E.L., and Binns, J., Land, landlords and sustainable livelihoods:

The impact of agrarian reform on a coconut hacienda in the Philippines, Land Use Policy (Published online: 2 July 2011:1 doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.06.002), 29, 1, 154-164.

               2012: McKibbin, J., Binns, T., Nel, E.L., Uplifting small towns in post-apartheid South Africa: The

                                 experience of the Amathole Regional Economic Development Agency (Aspire), Local

Economy , 27, 4, 388-402.

2013: Nel, E. and Rogerson, C.M., Special Economic Zones: reflections on their relevance for South

Africa based on international evidence, Urban Forum, 24, 2, 205-217. (Published online: 9 Jan 2013: DOI 10.1007/s12132-012-9184-7).

2013: Nel, E., Binns T. and Gibb, M., Community development at the coal face: networks and sustainability among artisanal mining communities in Indwe, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, Geographical Journal . (Published online: 23 April 2013: DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12022).

2014- Nel, E. and Stevenson T., The catalysts of small town economic development in a free market

economy:  a case study of New Zealand Local Economy 29 (4-5): 486-502. (Published online: 12 May 2014: DOI: 10.1177/0260994214535022).

2014: Nel, E., Book Review: The Sage handbook of Economic Geography New

 Zealand Geographer, 70, 2, 150-151.

2014: Liddle, L., McGregor, S. and Nel, E., The importance of community based informal water supply

     systems in the developing world and the need for formal sect0r support, Geographical Journal.(published on line November 2014” DOI: 10.1111/heoj.12117).

               2014: Nel, E. and Rogerson, C., Re-Spatializing Development: Reflections from South Africa’s Recent

               Re-Engagement with Spatial Economic Zone Planning, Urban Issvi , 55, 24-36.

2014 – Liddle, L., Mager, S. and Nel, E. Water quality awareness and barriers to safe water provision in

informal communities: A case study from Ndola, Zambia, Bulletin of Geography , 26, 167-181.

               2015 -  Liddle, E.S., Mager, S.M. and Nel, E., The suitability of shallow hand dug wells for safe water

provision in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Ndola, Zambia, submitted to: Applied Geography, 57, 80-90.

2015 – Nel, E.L.,  Introduction: Regional and Local Development in Australia and New Zealand, Local

 Economy, 30, 1, 3-4.

2015 -  Nel, E.L.,  Evolving Regional and Local Economic Development in New Zealand:

Local Economy, 30, 1, 67-77.

2015 – Nel, E.L., Recent trends in regional demographic and economic inequality in New Zealand and

               associated regional development implications, submitted to: Local Economy, 30, 1, 12-20.

2015 – Smart, J., Nel, E. and Binns, T., 2015: Economic crisis and food security in Africa: Exploring the

               significance of urban agriculture in Zambia’s Copperbelt province, Geoforum, 65, 37-45.

2016 – Nel, E. and Rogerson C., Re-engaging with spatial economic development: the recent experience

               of regional and local economic development in South Africa, Local Economy, 31, 1-2. 3-8.

2016 – Rogerson C. and Nel, E., Planning for local economic development in spaces of despair: key

               trends in South Africa’s ‘distressed areas’, Local Economy, 31, 1-2, 124-141

2016 – Nel, E. and Rogerson C., The contested trajectory of applied local economic development in

               South Africa, Local Economy, 31, 1-2, 109-123.

2016 – Wessels, J. and Nel, E., A new co-operative revolution in South Africa? : Reflections on the

               outcomes of state support in the Free State province, Local Economy, 31, 1-2, 187-203.

2016 – Marais, L. and Nel, E., The dangers of growing on gold: Lessons for mine downscaling from the

               Free State Goldfields, South Africa, Local Economy, 31, 1-2, 282-198.

         2017 – Marais, L., van Rooyen, D., Nel, E. and Lenka, M., Responses to mine downscaling: evidence

from secondary cities in the South African Goldfields, Extractive Industries and Society, 4, 163-171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2017.01.004

               2017 – Nel, E., Binns, J. and Smart, J., Resilience to Economic Shocks: Reflections from Zambia’s

                                 Copperbelt, Growth and Change, 48, 2, 201-213. DOI: 10.1111/grow.12181

2018  – Bek, D., Nel, E. and Binns, J., Jobs, Water or Conservation? Deconstructing the Green

Economy in South Africa’s Working for Water Programme, Environment and Development, 24, 136-145

2018 - Marais, L., Haslam-McKenzie, F., Deacon, L., Nel, E. The changing nature of mining

               towns: Reflections from Australia, Canada and South Africa, Land Use Policy, 76, 779-788.

2018 -  Hill, T. and Nel, E., Population Change in the Karoo, African Journal of Range and Forage

               Science, 35, 3-4, 203-208.

2018 – Sutherland, C., Scott, D., Nel, E. and Nel, A., Conceptualizing ‘the urban’ through

               the lense of Durban South Africa, Urban Forum, 29, 4, 333-351.

2019 – Nel, E. and Connelly, Regional economic transformation: Changing land and

resource access on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.04.008

2019 –Nel, E., and Connelly, S. Rediscovering regional development in New Zealand: Reflections on

 local and regional development challenges and opportunities, New Zealand Geographer, 75,

3, 113-115.

2019 –Nel, E., Connelly, S. and Stevenson, T. New Zealand’s Small Town Transition: The Experience

               of  Demographic and Economic Change and Place Based Responses, New Zealand

               Geographer, 75, 3, 163-176.

2019 – Connelly, S., Nel, E., and Bergen, Evolution of new Regional Development Interventions in New

               Zealand,  New Zealand Geographer, 75, 3, 177-193.

2020 – Latai-Niusulu, A., Binns, T. and Nel, E., Climate change and community resilience in Samoa,

               Singapore Journal of Tropical Geographer, 41, 1, 40-60.

2020 – Latai-Niusulu, A., Binns, T. and Nel, E., Positionality and Protocol in field research: undertaking

               community-based investigations in Samoa, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61, 1, 71-84.          

         https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12252

               2020 – Watson, R. and Nel, E., Applying development models to small island states: is Niue a TOURAB country?

                          Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61, 3, 551-565.

            2020 – Lynch, K., Binns, J., Nel, E., Transforming Freetown’: Dilemmas of planning and development in a West

                         African City, Cities, 101, 102694. 

2021- Wither, D., Orchiston, C., Cradock-Henry, N. and Nel, E., Advancing practical applications of    

resilience in Aotearoa-New Zealand, Ecology and Society, 26, 1 https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12409-260301

2021 - Nel, E., Connelly, S. and Stevenson, T. New Zealand’s Small Town Transition: The Experience

of Demographic and Economic Change and Place Based Responses, republished in: Geographical Research, Special Issue: Remembering, reimagining geography, Virtual Issue, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1745-5871.remembering-reimagining-geography?=

2021 – Alam, A., Binns, J., Cullen, C., Freeman, C., Nel, E. and Roche M., Celebrating 75 years of

geography teaching and research at the University of Otago, New Zealand Geographer,  77,3, 242-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12306

               2022 – Powe, N., Connelly, S. and Nel, E. Planning for Small Town Reorientation: Key policy choices

within external support, Journal of Rural Studies, 90, 65-75.

               2023 – Uko, E., Nel, E. and Binns T. ‘I lost my job suddenly, but I was prepared’: the significance of

urban and peri-urban agriculture in Benin City, Nigeria. Agroecology and Sustainable Food

Systems. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2022.2124474

2023 – Nel, E., Marais, L. and Mqotyana, Z. (2023) The Regional Implications of Just Transition in the

World’s   Most Coal-Dependent Economy: The case of Mpumalanga, South Africa, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 4:1059312. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2022.1059312

2023 – Alam, A. and Nel, E. Migration, emerging multiculturalism and planning in rural and small town      Aotearoa New Zealand,  Australian Planner , 58,3-4, 132-142.               doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2169724

2023 - Alam, A., Nel, E., Hill, D., & Bulloch, H. Settling in New Zealand’s Small Towns: Experiences

               of Minority Ethnic Immigrants. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-23.

               https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01044-6

2024 -  Sutherland, C., Nel, E., Nel, A. and Hill, T., Countering urban binaries within a third space: Durban, South Africa’s experience as a counter-city, Cities (in press).

         2025 – Connelly, S. and Nel, E., Prolonged coal transition between path dependency and new path

creation:  the case of Blackball New Zealand, Environmental Research Energy (submitted)

(e)         Non-refereed Journal Articles and Reports not included elsewhere

               1992 -  Nel, E.L., The Potential Effects of the Phasing Out of the Rail  Transport Subsidy to Receiving Firms in the Border-Kei  Region and Policy Alternatives for the Border-Kei Region, Corplan (and Border ANC) discussion document,  East London.

1992 -  Nel, E.L. The Phasing Out of the 1981 Regional Industrial Development Policy and Policy Alternatives for the Border-Kei Region, Corplan Discussion Document, East  London.

1994-    Fox, R., Mini, S. and Nel, E.L., Eastern Cape Small Town's Survey, Report Commissioned by the Urban Foundation.

               1994 -  Nel, E.L., An Evaluation of the Border Rural Development Forum,  Report Commissioned by the Independent Development Trust.

1994 -  Nel, E.L., The Role of Local Authorities in the Promotion of Small nd Medium Enterprises and  Job Creation, Research Report Commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the South African National Civic Organization - SANCO)

                                 1994/5- Nel, E.L., An Independent Evaluation of the Job Creation Programme Funded by the former RSA Department of Agriculture and Facilitated by the Independent Development Trust in the Border Corridor, Report Commissioned by the Independent Development Trust on behalf of the Government.

1994/5- Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R., The Role of Small Urban Centres in Economic Recovery and Regional    Development in Africa - A South African Case Study, Research report commissioned by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development.

1995 –  Nel, E.L., Geographers Look to the Future, Bulletin, May 1995, p.5, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria.

1995 –  McCarthy, J and Nel, E.L., Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas and Small Towns of South Africa, Investigation and analysis undertaken on behalf of the Ministry in the Office of the President (RDP Unit) of South Africa and the British Overseas Development Agency.

                                 1996 – Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R. A case-Study of Community Driven Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resources for Rural Development: Hertzog, South Africa, Network for Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa (NESDA), 2, 1 (Internet Journal).

                                 1996 -  Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R, Community initiated Development in a Rural Area - It  Works !, The Naturalist, 40, 1, 18-20

                                 1996 – Nel, E.L., An Examination of the Implementation, Effects and Implications of Regional Planning in the Border-Ciskei- Transkei Region of South Africa, Development Studies Unit Working Paper No. 66, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

               1996 -  Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R Participatory Rural Appraisal as an Applied Research  Methodology in South Africa's Rural Areas, Network for  Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa (NESDA), 30-31 (Internet Journal).

1997 –  Papalouzia, G, Hill, T.R, Nel, E.L., Water Harvest Kits, On Stream, 8, p. 4-5, Umgeni Water Board.

1997 –  Nel, E.L., Poverty Issues in Small Towns in South Africa, Contribution to the National 

               Poverty Survey, World Bank, UNDP, ODA.

1997 -   Hill, T.R. , Nel, E.L. and Papalouzia, G., Water-kits used to help school-children identify safe drinking   water in Hertzog, Eastern Cape, Umgeni Water.

1997-    Nel, E.L. and Hill, T.R., Development of Available Resources, Conserva, October, 22-23.

1998 -   Nel, E.L and Hill, T.R.., An Evaluation of Community Driven Economic Development, Land Tenure and Sustainable Environmental Development in the Kat River Valley, Final Report HNRE 68, Human Needs Resources and Environment Programme (of the Human Sciences Research Council), Pretoria. (409 pp.)

1999 -   Motteux, N. and Nel, E.L., Participatory techniques to  elicit a community’s environmental knowledge: The Kat  River, in van Rensburg, E., Indigenous Knowledge in/as  Environmental Education Processes, EEASA Monograph No.3,  Regional Environmental Education Programme, Howick.

1999 -   Nel, E.L. report on Local Economic Development written for the Centre for Development and Enterprise, Johannesburg.

1999 -   Nel, E.L. The Status of Local Economic Development in the SADC Countries, report, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg.

1999 -   Nel, E.L., Local Economic Development Instruments to address Economic Transformation in South Africa, commissioned by the Department of Constitutional Development, Pretoria and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg.

2000 -   Nel, E.L., Richards, K. and Stetten, J. Trends in Local Economic Development in SADC Countries, Issues in development No. 19, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg.

2003 –  Nel, E.L., A Study of Local Economic Development in the Free State Province, Premier’s Economic Advisory Council, Bloemfontein.

2004 –  Gibb, M. and Nel, E., Report of the Noordhoek Valley Training Centre, Cape Town, Report prepared for the Cape Metropolitan Council, Cape Town.

2005 –  Nel, E.L. (lead author), Investigation of Pro-Poor Local Economic Development in South

Africa, Report for the World Bank and BNPP Programme, Washington.

2005 –  Nel, E., Overview Of Local Economic Development Policy and Practise in South Africa and

 The Eastern Cape, Report for The Eastern Cape Social And Economic Council, Bhisho.

2005 –  Nel, E. and Rogerson, C., Re-Thinking The International Experience Of Spatial Inequalities:

Evidence and Regional Development, paper prepared for the Department of Trade and Industry, Pretoria, South Africa.

2006 –  Nel, E.L. (lead author), Investigation of Pro-Poor Local Economic Development in South

               Africa: Combined Urban and Rural Report, for the Development Bank of Southern Africa,

               Midrand.

2006 – Gibb, M, and Nel, E.,  Local Economic Development Monitoring and Evaluation Baseline Study in the Eastern Cape, Report prepared for GTZ, Pretoria.

2009 – Hampwaye, G., Nel, E. and Ingombe, L., The Role of Urban Agriculture in Addressing  Household Poverty and Food Security: The Case of Zambia, Global Development Network,  GDN Working Paper No. 19.

2009 – Nel, E., Hampwaye, G., Thornton, A., Rogerson, C.M., Marais, L., Institutional Responses to  Decentralization, Urban Poverty, Food Shortages and Urban Agriculture, Global Development Network,  GDN Working Paper No. 36.

(f)          Refereed Conference Proceedings

      1995 -  Nel, E.L., International Experience of Local Economic Development,in Nel, E.L. (ed.), Local  Economic Development in South Africa: A Review of Current Policy and Applied Case-Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg, 43-56.

      1996 -  Nel, E.L., Towards a definition of Local Economic Development and its place in South Africa, in Nel, E.L. and Lindie, N.M., Local Economic Development in South Africa: Recent Developments and Strategies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg, 3-5.

      1996 -  Nel, E.L., Local Economic Development in Rural / Small Town Areas, in Nel, E.L. and Lindie, N.M., Local Economic Development in South Africa: Recent Developments and Strategies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg, 26-27.

          1996 -  Nel, E.L., Regional Support Structures and Networks: International Examples, in Nel, E.L. and Lindie, N.M., Local Economic Development in South Africa: Recent Developments and Strategies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Johannesburg, 50-54.

      1996 -  Fox, R.C. and Nel, E.L., Small Town Integration, Social Interaction and Development Initiatives: A Case Study of Stutterheim, in Davies, R. (ed.), Contemporary City Structuring, IGU Commission on Urban Development and Urban Life, Cape Town, 259-274.

                                          1997 -  Nel, E.L., Localised Initiatives to promote Sustainable Development in the Marginal

Rural Areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, in Jones, G. and Morris, A., Issues of Environmental, Economic and Social Stability in the Development of marginal regions: Practices and Evaluation, International Geographic Union, Glasgow, p.234-239.

                                                                    2002 -   Nel, E.L., Global Change and Community Self-reliance Strategies in  Southern

                                                                    Africa, in Jussila, H., Majoral, R. and Cullen, B. (eds.), Sustainable Development in Geographic Space, Ashgate, Aldershot , p 159-172.

           2002 -  Nel, E.L., Local Economic Development: An Assessment of its current status in

                             Southern Africa, in Higano, Y.,  Njikamp, P., Poot, J. and van Wyk,  K. (eds.): The Region in the NewEconomy: An International Perspective on Rgeional Dynamics in the 21st Century, Ashgate, Aldershot, p. 351-370.

2007 –  Nel, E. and Binns, T., Evolving economic marginality and local economic

development responses in selected South African Gold and Coal Mining Areas, in,  Jones, G., Leimgruber, W. And Nel, E. (eds), Issues in Geographical marginality: Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Evolving Issues of geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World, 2001-2004, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. ISBN: 9780868104416 (CD – no pages)

2007 –  Nel, E. and Binns, T., Evaluating ‘developmental local government’ in South

Africa’s cities, in Jones, G., Leimgruber, W. And Nel, E. (eds), Issues in Geographical marginality: Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Evolving Issues of geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World, 2001-2004, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. ISBN: 9780868104416 (CD – no pages)

2007 –  Nel, E.L., Davidson, J. and Thornton, A., Pandemic and panacea: urban agriculture

as a community-based response to HIV/AIDS ?, in Jones, G., Leimgruber, W. And Nel, E. (eds), Issues in Geographical marginality: Papers presented during the Meetings of the Commission on Evolving Issues of geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World, 2001-2004, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. ISBN: 9780868104416 (CD – no pages)

2008 –  Nel, E. and Binns, J., Evolving Economic Marginality And Local Economic Development Responses in Selected South African Gold and Coal Mining Areas, in Valenca, M., Nel., E. and Leimgruber, W. (eds.), The Global Challenge and Marginality, Nova Science, New York.

2012-    Nel, E. and Stevenson, T., Small town New Zealand: Reflections on local responses to geographical marginalization in a mountainous country, in Mountain regions in transformation: Global processes, Regional and Local Impacts and Responses, Leimgruber, W., Zsilincsar, W. and Nel, E. (Eds), Shaker, Aachen , 85-99.

(g)         Other Significant Conference Involvement – Conference Presentations

               1993 -  E.Nel, Centre for Regional Development, Beer-Sheva, Israel,  international conference on Regional Development, paper delivered: `Regional Development on a South African Frontier: A  Case-Study of the Border-Ciskei-Transkei Region'.

1994 – E.Nel, Winter School of the Zimbabwean Institute of Urban and  Regional Planners, held in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, invited  paper entitled: `EPZs - An Examination of Recent Experience with Specific Reference to southern Africa'.

1995 – E.Nel, Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, held at Leeds Metropolitan University, paper delivered: `Community Enterprise in South Africa: A Case Study of Local Economic Development in Stutterheim’.

1995 – E.Nel, United Nations Centre for Regional Development conference on Small Town Development in Africa, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, invited paper: `The Role of Small Urban Centres in Economic Recovery  and Regional Development: South African Case-Study'.

1995 – E.Nel and R.Fox, International Geographic Union Commission on Urban Development and Urban Life, Cape Town, paper delivered: `Small Town Integration, Social Interaction  and Development Initiatives: A Case Study of Stutterheim’.

1996 – E.Nel and T. Hill, The Role of Small Urban Centres in Economic Recovery and Regional Development in Africa - A South African Case  Study, Phase III, paper delivered at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development Conference, Nyeri, Kenya. 

               1996 -  E.Nel, Plenary Speaker invited to deliver a paper entitled: `Local community economic development: applied practice and current policy formation in small towns in South Africa', paper delivered at the International Community Development Society conference, Melbourne, Australia.

               1996 -  E.Nel, `Localised initiatives to promote sustainable development in the marginal areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa', paper to delivered at the International Geographical Union's Study Group on Development Issues in Marginal Areas meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.

               1996 -  E.Nel `Local strategies to promote sustainable rural development through periodic marketing in South Africa', poster paper presented at the International  Geographic Union conference, The Hague, Netherlands   (joint presentation).

               1996 -  E.Nel, Plenary Speaker invited to deliver a paper entitled: `Global Change and its on Local Communities', paper delivered at the 1996 International Conference of the Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development, Londonderry, Northern .Ireland.

1997 – E.Nel, Speaker invited to deliver a paper entitled: `Issues facing geographical education in the `new' South Africa', delivered at the 1997 Geographical Association Conference, London.

1997 – E.Nel and Fox, R., `Pension payouts, periodic marketing and the continuance of urban dependence in rural South Africa; problems and prospects for post-apartheid rural development planning,' paper presented at the United Nations Centre for Human Settlement Expert Group Meeting on Assessing Regional Development Planning in the Management of Urbanization, Nairobi, Kenya. 

1997 – E.Nel, Reflection on the Experience of Selected Rural, Community Initiated Economic Self-Reliance Strategies in South Africa', paper delivered at the Community Development Society Conference, Atlanta, U.S.A.

1997 – E.Nel and T.Hill, `Community Empowerment through Applied Participatory Rural Appraisal in the Kat River Valley, South Africa', poster presented at the Community Development Society Conference, Atlanta, U.S.A. (poster).

1998 – E.Nel and J. Binns, Prospects for `local economic development' in the `new' South Africa: the experience of the former Ciskei Homeland, paper delivered at the Institute of British Geographers annual conference, Guildford.

               1998 -  C.Rogerson and E.Nel, The Role of Government in Development: An Examination of Evolving Local Economic Development Policy and Practice in South Africa, paper presented at the International Geographic Union’s Commission on Industrial Reconstruction, Seville, Spain.

               1998 -  E.Nel and J. Binns, Local Economic Development and Community Self-Reliance in South Africa, paper presented at the African Studies Association of the UK Biennial Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London. 

1999 – J.Binns and E.Nel, An Historical Note of Caution: South Africa’s Transition in the Light of Earlier Transformations, paper presented at the Institute of British Geographers Conference, Leicester. 

                                                   1999 -  N. Motteux and E.Nel, The Transitional Shift in Riverine Management Orientations and Methods:  A Move Towards a Critical Spirit, paper presented at the Second Australian Stream Management Conference, Adelaide (poster).  

1999 – E.Nel, Structural Adjustment and Resultant Community Self-Reliance, paper presented  at the International Geographic Union: Commission on Marginal and Critical Areas Conference, Albuquerque, U.S.A,

2000 – E.Nel and J.Binns, Hertzog Reconsidered: Critical Reflections on the Role of Social Capital and Non-governmental Organizations in Community-based Local Economic  Development, paper presented at the Local Economic Development in South Africa conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.

2000- E.Nel, J.Binns and N.Motteux, Critical Reflections on The Evolution of Experience of Local Economic Development in Stutterheim, South Africa And The Role of Social Capital, paper presented at the Local Economic Development in South Africa conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.

2000-  E.Nel and J.Binns, A case of participatory development of water property rights in the Kat River valley, presented at the Local Economic Development in South Africa conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.

2000- P.Illgner and E.Nel, The role of beekeeping in developing rural self-reliance: a case study from Bondolfi, Zimbabwe, presented at the Seminar on: The Role Beekeeping in Development Programmes, Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, U.K. 

                                 2000 -  A. Lester, E.Nel and J. Binns, Post-Apartheid ‘Development’: Praxis and Policy in South Africa, paper presented at the ‘South Africa: Past, Present and Future’ conference / book launch, St. Mary’s University College, London.

2000 – E.Nel and J.Binns, Reflections on the status of Local Economic Development in South Africa, paper presented at the Africa Studies Association conference, Cambridge UK.

2001 – E.Nel and J.Binns, Evolving Economic Marginality and Local Economic Development Responses in Selected South African Gold and Coal Mining Areas, paper presented at the International Geographic Union: Commission on Evolving Issues of Geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

               2002 – E.Nel and J.Binns,‘Healing the wounds of apartheid’: Applying Developmental Local

                                 Government in South Africa’s Cities, paper presented at the Institute of British Geographers /Royal Geographical Society Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2002 – E.Nel and J. Binns, The  Village  in  A  Game Park  : Environmental Management and Social Upliftment in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa paper presented at the Institute of British  Geographers / Royal Geographical Society Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2002 – E.Nel, ‘Local Government Endeavours to address economic and social marginality in South Africa’s urban areas’, paper presented at the International Geographical Union Conference, Durban, South Africa.

2002 – E.Nel and J.Binns, ‘Evaluating Local Economic Development Initiatives in South Africa’, presented at the Africa Studies Assoication (UK) Conference, Birmingham, U.K.

2003 – Nel, E., Gibb, M and Binns, J.A., The Global City in the South: The Challenges of Globalisation, Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation in South Africa, presented at the Institute of British Geographers Conference, London.

               2004 – Nel, E., Davidson, J. and Thornton, A., Pandemic and panacea: urban agriculture as a

community based response to HIV/AIDS, presented at the IGU Marginal Areas Commission meeting, Stirling, Scotland.

               2005 – Binns, J., Bek, D. and Nel, E., Sustainable Communities And Alternative Food Systems: Case

Studies From South Africa’s West Coast, presented at the Institute of British Geographers Conference, London.

         2005 – Nel, E. and Hill, T., Global Integration and Local Response: An Examination of Industrial

Development and Corporate Social Investment Programmes in South Africa: Evidence from Richards Bay, presented the International Geographical Union Commission Conference on: Globalization, Marginalization and Regional and Local Response, Natal, Brazil.

2005 – Davidson, J. and Nel, E., Viva Victoria!: A Development Worker’s Response To Economic

Marginalization  in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, poster paper presented the International

Geographical Union Commission Conference on: Globalization, Marginalization and Regional

and Local Response, Natal, Brazil.

2006 -  Nel, E., Rural Community Responses to Marginalization and Economic Opportunities in

Malawi: The Ngolowindo Co-operative, paper presented at the  International Geographical

Union Commission Conference on: Globalization, Marginalization and Regional and Local Response, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2006 – Davidson, J., Du Preez, L., Gibb., M. and Nel, E., “It’s in the Bag!” Using Simulation as  a

Participatory Learning Method to understand Poverty, paper presented at the  International

GeographicalUnion Commission Conference on: Globalization, Marginalization and Regional

and Local Response, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

               2006 – Nel, E. and Gibb., M.,  Private Sector led Poverty Relief and Development Interventions:

Evidence From South Africa, paper presented at the UK Development Studies Association

conference, University of Reading, UK.

2007 – Nel, E.,  South Africa’s Karoo: A Study Of Economic Marginalization And Demographic

Change In South Africa’s Semi-Arid Interior, , paper presented at the  International

GeographicalUnion Commission Conference on: Globalization, Marginalization and Regional

and Local Response, University of Kitami, Kitami, Japan.

               2007 – Bek, D., Nel, E. and Binns, J. Misplaced Expectations ? A Critical Review Of The Experience

                                 of Applied Local Economic Development In South Africa, paper presented at the Institute of                           British Geographers conference, London, UK.

               2008 – Nel, E. and Binns, J., Responding to Marginality, Reflections on the Experience of South Island,

                                 New Zealand, paper presented at the International Geographical Congress conference, Tunis,                          Tunisia.

               2008 – Nel, E., Hill, T. and Taylor, B., Small Town Dynamics in South Africa, paper presented at the

                                 International Geographical Congress conference, Tunis, Tunisia.

               2008 – Nel, E. and Binns, J., Decentralizing Economic Development, a Critical Reflection on the

                                 Experience of Local Economic Development in South Africa, paper presented at the New                                 Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

               2008 – Binns, J., Bek, D. and Nel, E., Ethical codes and global supply chains: the case of South

                                 Africa’s ‘Flower Valley, paper presented at the Africa Studies Association Conference,                                    Preston, UK.

               2008 - Nel, E. Binns, J. and Bek, D., Fair trade and alternative food networks in the internationalization

                                 of small-scale rural entrepreneurs in South Africa, paper presented  at the Eleventh McGill                               International Entrepreneurship Conference, 5-8 December, University of Otago, Dunedin,                               New Zealand.

2009-  Nel,E. Binns, J. and Bek, D. Responding to marginalization: Alternate food networks and small         and medium enterprises in South Africa, paper presented at               the Conference of the International

Geographical Union Commission Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6-8 July.

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            2009- Binns, J., Bek, D. and Nel, E., Globalizing poor producers: Developing alternative commodity

                              networks among small-scale entrepreneurs in rural South Africa, paper presented at the Royal                         Geographical Society, Annual International Conference, Manchester, UK, 26-28 August.

2009- Binns, J., Bek, D. and Nel, E., Emerging markets and alternative commodity networks – cases

from rural South Africa, paper presented at the Third European Conference on African Studies, 4-7 June, Leipzig, Germany.

               2009- Thornton,A., Hampwaye,G., Marais, L. and Nel,E.,  Institutional Support for Urban Agriculture in

                                 Zambia, paper presented at the Third European Conference on African Studies, 4-7 June,                              Leipzig, Germany

               2010-  Thornton, A., Nel, E. and Kerslake, M. Cyclones, cash crops and capitalism: the potential for

                                 niche agriculture in a period of deepening systemic change in Samoa, paper presented at the                            Association of American Geographers Conference, 14-18 April, Washington, USA.

               2010-  Thornton, A., Nel, E. and Kerslake, M.Cyclones, cash crops and capitalism: the potential for

                                 niche agriculture in a period of deepening systemic change in Samoa, paper presented at the                            Oceania Development Network Conference, Fiji.

               2010 – Nel, E. and Binns, J. Small Town New Zealand: Reflections on Responses to Geographical

                                 marginalization, paper presented at the International Geographic Union Conference, Graz,                                Austria.

               2010- Binns, J. and Nel, E. Formalizing Urban Agriculture in Zambia, paper presented at the New

                                 Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

2010 – Thornton, A. Hampwaye, G., Marais,L. and Nel,E., Institutional Support & Capacity Building for     Urban Agriculture in Zambia, Presented at the African Studies Association of Australasia and   the Pacific, Melbourne 2010.

2011 – Nel, E., Small town development in New Zealand: responses to marginalization, paper presented      at the Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union, Santiago, Chile.

2012 – Binns, T. and Nel, E., Africa; Diversity and Development., presented at the Geographical  Association Conference, Manchester.

2012 – Nel, E., regional restructuring in New Zealand, the small town experience, paper presented at the      Regional Studies Association conference, Beijing.

2012 – Binns, T. and Nel, E., Urban agriculture in Zambia’s Copperbelt, presented at the African Studies     Association of Australasia Conference, Canberra.

2012 – Nel, E., Responding to changing fortunes: the experience of small town New Towns, presented at     the New Zealand Geographical Society conference, Napier.

2012- Nel, E., The experience of small town development in New Zealand, presented at the IGU  Conference, Cologne.

2012- Nel, E., Urban Agriculture in Zambia, presented at the IGU Conference, Cologne.

2013- Nel, E., Resilience on Zambia’s Copperbelt, presented at the RGS Conference, London.

2013- Binns, T. and Nel, E., Urban Agriculture and policy support on Zambia’s Copperbelt, presented at      the RGS Conference, London.

2013 – Smart, J, Binns, T. and Nel, E., Urban agriculture in Zambia’s Copperbelt: an update, presented        at the African Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Perth.

2014 – Urban Agriculure in Zambia, (with T. Binns), presented at the International Geographic Union                            conference, Krakow, Poland.

2014 – Small Town development trends in New Zealand, presented at the International Geographic Union conference, Krakow, Poland.

2014 -  Urban Agriculture in Zambia and Sierra Leone compared (with T. Binns), presented at the Royal

Geographical Society conference London.

2014 -  Small Towns and Secondary Cities in South Africa, presented at the Royal

Geographical Society conference London.

2015 – Flirting with food security: resilience in the face of conflict, climate change and communicable

diseases in rural Sierra Leone (Bateman, J., Binns, J and Nel E), Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Workshop, Kingston, Jamaica

               2015 – A longitudinal case study of rural livelihoods in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone  (Bateman,

J., Binns, T. and Nel, E.), presented at the Association of American Geographer Conference, Chicago, USA.

               2015 - The Quest for Local and Regional Development in South Africa: A Reflection on Local

Economic Development Interventions in the Country’s Peripheral Areas, presented at the Regional Science Association Annual Conference, Piacenza, Italy.

               2016 – Supporting urban livelihoods in Africa: Urban agriculture in the Zambian Copperbelt, presented

                                 at the New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Dunedin (joint  with Binns T.).

               2016 – Demographic change and economic restructuring: impacts on New Zealand’s rural areas,

                                 presented at the New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Dunedin

               2016 – The mining cycle and international evidence of local responses to mine closure, presented at the

                                 Centre for Development Support Conference on Mine Closure, University of the Free State,

                                 Bloemfontein, South Africa.

               2016 – ‘Dealing with differences’ responses to uneven geographical development: reflections from

                                 South Africa and beyond, paper delivered at the Society for South African Geographers

                                 Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa (keynote address).

               2016 – ‘Contested green spaces’: practicing the ‘green economy’ on South Africa’s Aghulas Plain, paper

                                 presented at the Royal Geographical Society Conference, London (joint with Bek, D. and

                                 Binns, T.)

               2016 - Restructuring the New Zealand Economy: The economic and social impact on resource frontier

                                 regions and towns, presented at the World Congress on Rural Sociology, Toronto, Canada

                                 (joint with Connelly, S.)

               2016 - Regional development in the face of restructuring?  Lessons from Southland and the West Coast,

                                 New Zealand, presented at the World Congress on Rural Sociology, Toronto, Canada (joint

                                 with Connelly, S.).

               2017 – Regional Divergence in New Zealand, presented at the Regional Studies Association conference,

                                 Dublin, Ireland (joint with Connelly, S.).

               2017 – The more things change, the more they stay the same ? Insights from longitudinal research on

rural livelihoods in Sierra Leone, Royal Geographical Society conference, London (joint with Bateman, J. and Binns, T.)

2017 – Re-embracing Regional Development and Place in New Zealand and South Africa, presented at

               the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, London, UK.

2018 – African development: ‘Hopeless Africa’, ‘Africa Rising’, or Somewhere in between?, presented

               at the Regional Studies Association Conference, Lugano, Switzerland (joint with Tony Binns).

2018 – Structural change in rural and small town New Zealand, presented at the New Zealand

Geographical Society Conference, Auckland, New Zealand (joint with A. Pomeroy and S.Connelly).

2018 – Re-engaging with place: New Zealand’s new Regional Growth Programme, presented at the

               Regional Studies Association Conference, Lugano, Switzerland

2018 – Divergence and Change: Economic and demographic change in New Zealand’s small towns,

               paper presented at the Royal Geographical Society Conference, Cardiff, U.K.

2019 – Rediscovering the Regions: a new era of regional policy intervention in New Zealand, presented

at the Regional Studies Association Conference,Christchurch, New Zealand. (joint with S. Connelly and S. Bergen).

2019 – Responding to Regional Change in New Zealand: state led and community-based responses,

presented at the Regional Studies Association Conference, Santiago, Spain. (joint with S. Connelly).

2019 - A critical evaluation of the significance, roles and planning implications of urban and peri-urban

               agriculture (UPA) in southern Nigeria, paper presented at the Royal Geographical Society

               Conference, Cardiff, U.K. (joint with E. Uko and T. Binns).

2019 - Spaces of Hope in the threated landscapes of South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region, paper

               presented at the Royal Geographical Society Conference, Cardiff, U.K. (joint with D.Basubas,

               R. Fleener, D,Bek and T. Binns).

2019 - Deconstructing the Green Economy in South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region, paper presented at

               the Royal Geographical Society Conference, Cardiff, U.K. (joint with D.Basubas, R. Fleener,

               D,Bek and T. Binns).

2019 - New Zealand’s Shrinking Towns: Catalytic Factors and local and national response.  Regional                             Studies Association Winter Conference.

2020 - Community Led Responses to Rural Health Service Delivery Challenges in New Zealand. New

Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Welllington, New Zealand (Nel, E. and Connelly, S.).

2020 - Path dependence or path creation?  Rural restructuring, May Day celebrations and the future of          Blackball, West Coast. New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Welllington, New

               Zealand (Connelly, S. and Nel, E.).

2021 – Local Governance Response to the impact of Covid-19 in New Zealand: Evidence from centres

dependent on international tourism, Association of American Geographers Conference (virtual), USA.

2021 – Exacerbating Marginalization: COVID-19’s impact on peripheral, tourism-dependent regions in

New Zealand and local responses, International Geographical Union Commission Conference (virtual), Romania.

2021 – New Zealand’s Shrinking Urban Centres: Catalytic Factors and Local and National Response,

               International Geographic Congress (virtual), Istanbul, Turkey.

2021 – ‘Transforming Freetown’: Dilemmas of planning and development in a West African city,

               International Geographic Congress (virtual), Istanbul, Turkey (Binns, T. and Nel, E.).

2021  - Transforming regional economies in New Zealand? Resilience and change in regions dependent

               on international tourism in response to COVID-19, presented at the Royal Geographical

               Society Conference (virtual), London, UK.

2022 – Opportunities and challenges for New Zealand left behind places, presented at the Regional

               Studies Association Conference (virtual), Brighton, UK.

2023 - Countering marginalization in Rural New Zealand’s ‘Left Behind Places’: the opportunities and

               challenges presented by international migration. presented at the Regional

               Studies Association Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2023 -  New Zealand’s ‘Left Behind Places’: State and community  responses to persistent uneven

               geographical development: Small town and rural realities, presented at the Sustainability,

               business, and local economic development conference, Aberystwyth, Wales.

(h)         Guest Editor of Special Journal issues

2003: Nel, E.L., Binns, J.A. and Simon, D., Special Issue of Urban Forum, 14, 2-3,

on Local Economic Development in South Africa.

                                                   2005: Rogerson, C.M. and Nel, E., Special Issue of Africa Insight, on Local

 Economic Development in Africa.

                                                   2007: Nel, E, Special Issue of Environment and Planning C, on Urban and local

 development in Africa.

                                                   2007: Rogerson, C. and Nel, E., Special Issue of Urban Forum, on Local Economic

Development in Small Town and Rural South Africa.

2015 – Nel, E., Special Issue in Local Economy: Regional and Local Development in

                Australasia.

2016 – Nel, E. and Rogerson, C.M, Special Issue in Local Economy: Regional and

                Local Development in South Africa (double issue).

2018 – Sutherland, C., Nel, A., and Nel, E. Special Issue in Urban

                Forum 29, 4 on : Negotiating the future of the city: urban transformation, \      governance and contestation in Durban.

2019 – Nel, E. and Connelly, S. in New Zealand Geographer on: Regional

                Development in New Zealand.

2021 – Alam, A., Binns, J., Cullen, N., Freeman, C., Nel, E. and Roche, M., New

Zealand Geographer on: Celebrating 75 years of geography teaching and research at the University of Otago.

(i)          Policy Papers

1994 - Establishment Document of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Eastern

Cape, (contributor).

                                                                     1995 - Strategies and Policies for Local Economic Development  in the New South

                                                                                       Africa, Policy document for SANCO (the South African National

                                                                                       Congress Organization) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (chief author).

1996 - Local Economic Development: Draft Green Paper, for the South African

               Government of National Unity, commissioned by the Ministry in the

               Office of the President and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (chief author).

1996 - Small Town Development Strategies in South Africa, Centre for

 Development and Enterprise Policy Paper, Johannesburg (editor).

1996 - Taking The Lead: A Community Resource Kit, Reconstruction and

Development Programme / National Business Initiative, Pretoria and Durban (joint author).

2004 – Finalization of : A National Policy and Strategy for Local Economic

Development in South Africa, for Department of Provincial and Local Government, Pretoria (contributor).

                                               2005 – Regional Industrial Development Strategy, draft discussion document

commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry for the South African cabinet (contributor).

2011 – Small Town Regeneration Strategy, for the Department of Public Works,

 Eastern Cape Government, South Africa.

10. University Service

               (a)         Significant positions held within Department/School/Division

2002-2004             Head of Department, Geography         Rhodes University

2013                       Acting Head of Department, Geography Otago University

2015                       Acting Academic Dean, Humanities Division, University of Otago

2020-                      Head of School, Geography                  University of Otago

               (b)         Significant positions held at a University level

2002-2007             University Senate                                    Rhodes University

                                 2005-2007             Standing Committee, Humanities        Rhodes University  

                                 2008 -2009            Divisional Graduate Affairs Committee Otago University

                                 2011-2013             Academic Committee, Humanities      Otago University

                                 2011 - 2013          Committee for the Advancement of    Otago University

                                                                                       Learning and Teaching

                                 2013-2016             Fairtrade Steering Committee               Otago University