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South Africa
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
10201
World Ranking
4720
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Sheona Shackleton is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a focus on several interconnected subfields.

The main subfields of their work include Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research covers a range of topics, particularly centered on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Disaster Management and Resilience, and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work include Nadia Sitas, Jessica Thorn, Nadine Methner, Rebeca Biancardi Aleu, and Rob Marchant.

Sheona Shackleton has published in several venues multiple times. The most frequent publication outlets are Ecosystems and People, Land, South African Journal of Science, Landscape and Urban Planning, and People and Nature.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Acknowledging Indigenous and Local Knowledge to Facilitate Collaboration in Landscape Approaches-Lessons from a Systematic Review", 2020, published in Land
  • "Mainstreaming nature-based solutions for climate resilient infrastructure in peri-urban sub-Saharan Africa", 2021, published in Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice", 2023, published in People and Nature
  • "Socio-economic outcomes of ecological infrastructure investments", 2021, published in Ecosystem Services
  • "Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia", 2022, published in Regional Environmental Change

Best Publications

  • The importance of non-timber forest products in rural livelihood security and as safety nets: a review of evidence from South Africa

    Charlie M. Shackleton;Sheona Shackleton

  • The importance of dry woodlands and forests in rural livelihoods and poverty alleviation in South Africa

    Charlie M. Shackleton;Sheona E. Shackleton;Erik Buiten;Neil Bird

  • Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?

    S. Shackleton;Bruce M. Campbell;Eva K. Wollenberg;D. Edmunds

  • The Role of Land-Based Strategies in Rural Livelihoods: The Contribution of Arable Production, Animal Husbandry and Natural Resource Harvesting in Communal Areas in South Africa

    Charlie M Shackleton;Sheona E Shackleton;Ben Cousins

  • Agroforestry Tree Products (AFTPs): Targeting Poverty Reduction and Enhanced Livelihoods

    Roger R.B. Leakey;Zacharie Tchoundjeu;Kathrin Schreckenberg;Sheona E. Shackleton

  • Household wealth status and natural resource use in the Kat River valley, South Africa

    Charlie M. Shackleton;Sheona E. Shackleton

  • Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases

    Sheona Shackleton;Gina Ziervogel;Susannah Sallu;Thomas Gill

  • Markets Drive the Specialization Strategies of Forest Peoples

    Manuel Ruiz-Pérez;Brian Belcher;Ramadhani Achdiawan;Miguel Alexiades

  • From Subsistence to Safety Nets and Cash Income: Exploring the Diverse Values of Non-timber Forest Products for Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation

    Sheona Shackleton;Sheona Shackleton;Claudio O. Delang;Arild Angelsen;Arild Angelsen

  • Assessing the Effects of Invasive Alien Species on Rural Livelihoods: Case Examples and a Framework from South Africa

    C. M. Shackleton;D. McGarry;S. Fourie;J. Gambiza

  • Use patterns and value of savanna resources in three rural villages in South Africa

    S. E. Shackleton;C. M. Shackleton;T. R. Netshiluvhi;B. S. Geach

  • Multiple benefits and values of trees in urban landscapes in two towns in northern South Africa

    Sheona Shackleton;Abby Chinyimba;Paul Hebinck;Paul Hebinck;Charlie Shackleton

  • Opportunities for Enhancing Poor Women's Socioeconomic Empowerment in the Value Chains of Three African Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)

    S. Shackleton;F. Paumgarten;F. Paumgarten;H. Kassa;M. Husselman

  • Non-timber forest products in the global context

    Sheona Shackleton;Charlie Shackleton;Patricia Shanley

  • Direct use values of secondary resources harvested from communal savannas in the Bushbuckridge lowveld, South Africa

    C.M. Shackleton;S.E. Shackleton

  • Invisible but viable: recognising local markets for non-timber forest products

    S. Shackleton;P. Shanley;O. Ndoye

  • Barriers to implementing planned community-based adaptation in developing countries: a systematic literature review

    Meggan Spires;Sheona Shackleton;Georgina Cundill

  • Use and trading of wild edible herbs in the central lowveld savanna region, South Africa

    S. E. Shackleton;C. M. Dzerefos;C. M. Shackleton;F. R. Mathabela

  • Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa

    S. Shackleton;Bruce M. Campbell

  • Community structure and species composition along a disturbance gradient in a communally managed South African savanna

    C. M. Shackleton;N. J. Griffin;D. I. Banks;J. M. Mavrandonis

  • Knowledge on Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra with emphasis on its importance as a non-timber forest product in South and southern Mrica: A Summary

    Sheona E. Shackleton;Charlie M. Shackleton;Tony Cunningham;Cyril Lombard

  • Acknowledging Indigenous and Local Knowledge to Facilitate Collaboration in Landscape Approaches—Lessons from a Systematic Review

    Portia Adade Williams;Likho Sikutshwa;Sheona Shackleton

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlie M. Shackleton
Charlie M. Shackleton Rhodes University
Bruce M. Campbell
Bruce M. Campbell Wageningen University & Research
Eva K. Wollenberg
Eva K. Wollenberg University of Vermont
Mathieu Rouget
Mathieu Rouget Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Roger R.B. Leakey
Roger R.B. Leakey Independent Scientist / Consultant, UK
Arild Angelsen
Arild Angelsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
James Nelson Blignaut
James Nelson Blignaut Stellenbosch University
Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town
Etienne Nel
Etienne Nel University of Otago
Bruce C.V. Campbell
Bruce C.V. Campbell Royal Melbourne Hospital

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