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Overview

Etienne Nel is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research focuses broadly within the social sciences, with contributions across multiple subfields including sociology and political science, demography, urban studies, general agricultural and biological sciences, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's main topics of research cover areas such as rural development and sustainability, migration, aging, and tourism studies, regional resilience and development, urban and rural development challenges, mining and resource management, island studies and Pacific affairs, and youth education and societal dynamics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nel include Tony Binns, Kenneth Lynch, Alan Dixon, Stanko Pelc, and Ashraful Alam.

Etienne Nel has published research articles in a variety of academic venues. Among the most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Cities
  • Asia Pacific Viewpoint
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
  • Journal of Rural Studies
  • Australian Planner

Significant recent papers authored by Etienne Nel include:

  • The regional implications of just transition in the world's most coal-dependent economy: The case of Mpumalanga, South Africa, 2023, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
  • 'Transforming Freetown': Dilemmas of planning and development in a West African City, 2020, Cities
  • Planning for small town reorientation: Key policy choices within external support, 2022, Journal of Rural Studies
  • Positionality and protocol in field research: Undertaking community-based investigations in Samoa, 2020, Asia Pacific Viewpoint
  • Migration, emerging multiculturalism and planning in rural and small town Aotearoa New Zealand, 2022, Australian Planner

Etienne Nel has also authored books, including a publication with Springer International Publishing titled Responses to Geographical Marginality and Marginalization in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Tourism as a local development strategy in South Africa

    Tony Binns;Etienne Nel

  • Local Economic Development: A Review and Assessment of its Current Status in South Africa:

    Etienne Nel

  • Local economic development in the developing world : the experience of Southern Africa

    Etienne Louis Nel;Christian Rogerson

  • Beyond the development impasse: the role of local economic development and community self-reliance in rural South Africa

    Tony Binns;Etienne Nel

  • The Geography of Edible Insects in Sub-Saharan Africa: a study of the Mopane Caterpillar

    Peter M. Illgner;Etienne L. Nel

  • Place Marketing, Tourism Promotion, and Community based Local Economic Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa The Case of Still Bay—The “Bay of Sleeping Beauty”

    Etienne Nel;Tony Binns

  • Africa: Diversity and Development

    Tony Binns;Alan Dixon;Etienne Louis Nel

  • South Africa, Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

    Tony Binns;Alan Lester;Etienne Nel

  • Regional and Local Economic Development in South Africa: The Experience of the Eastern Cape

    Etienne Louis Nel

  • Water shortage, deforestation and development: South Africa's `Working for Water' programme

    J. A. Binns;P. M. Illgner;E. L. Nel

  • Small-Scale, Nature-Based Tourism as a Pro-Poor Development Intervention: Two Examples in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Trevor Hill;Etienne Nel;Dayle Trotter

  • Initiating `developmental local government' in South Africa: Evolving local economic development policy

    Etienne Nel;Tony Binns

  • The village in a game park: local response to the demise of coal mining in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Tony Binns;Etienne Nel

  • Evolving Local Economic Development Policy and Practice in South Africa with Special Reference to Smaller Urban Centres

    Etienne Nel;Christian M. Rogerson

  • Learning from the people

    Tony Binns;Trevor Hill;Etienne Nel

  • The contested trajectory of applied local economic development in South Africa

    Etienne Nel;Christian M Rogerson

  • The dictionary of human geography, 5th edition – Edited by Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael J. Watts and Sarah Whatmore

    Etienne Nel

  • Devolving development: integrated development planning and developmental local government in post-apartheid South Africa

    Tony Binns;Etienne Nel

  • Local development initiatives and Stutterheim

    Etienne L Nel

  • Putting “Developmental Local Government” into Practice: The Experience of South Africa’s Towns and Cities

    Etienne Nel;Tony Binns

  • South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The political economy of change

    Etienne Nel

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian M. Rogerson
Christian M. Rogerson University of Johannesburg
Vladimir U. Smakhtin
Vladimir U. Smakhtin United Nations University
Sheona Shackleton
Sheona Shackleton University of Cape Town
Gina Porter
Gina Porter Durham University

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