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  1. Towards a mock quantum resilience theory for disaster risk reduction

    Article • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, October 2025, Emerald

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  2. Emergent system behaviour as a tool for understanding disaster resilience: The case of Southern African subsistence agriculture

    Article • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  3. An exploration of objectivism and social constructivism within the context of disaster risk

    Article • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, April 2016, Emerald

    Prof dr Gerrit Van der Waldt, Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  4. Disaster resilience and complex adaptive systems theory

    Article • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, April 2016, Emerald

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  5. UNAMID: an African solution to a complex case of geopolitical dynamics

    Article • African Security Review, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  6. Disaster risk governance in Africa

    Article • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, June 2015, Emerald

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  7. Planning and Executing Scenario Based Simulation Exercises: Methodological Lessons

    Article • Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  8. Developing Sustainable Capacity for Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  9. Experiences of Africa: Status and Potentials

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  10. Contributors

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  11. A critical analysis of the South African Disaster Management Act and Policy Framework

    Article • Disasters, September 2014, Wiley

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  12. Towards a disaster risk assessment methodology for communities underlain by dolomite

    Article • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, August 2013, Emerald

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  13. Intra-governmental coordination for sustainable disaster recovery: A case-study of the Eden District Municipality, South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, June 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  14. Views from the Frontline: A critical assessment of local risk governance in South Africa

    Article • Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, January 2013, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  15. Relational Coping Strategies of Older Adults with Drought in a Rural African Context

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  16. Capacity development for participatory disaster risk assessment

    Article • Environmental Hazards, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  17. Letter from the Editor

    Article • Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, June 2012, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  18. Tracking the evolution of the disaster management cycle: A general system theory approach

    Article • Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, June 2012, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  19. Rhetoric or action: Are South African municipalities planning for climate change?

    Article • Development Southern Africa, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  20. Chapter 17 African Experiences in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction

    Article • January 2012, Emerald

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  21. Participatory action research: Addressing social vulnerability of rural women through income-generating activities

    Article • Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, April 2009, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  22. Letter from the Director of the African Centre for Disaster Studies

    Article • Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, April 2009, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  23. The December 2004-January 2005 floods in the Garden Route region of the Southern Cape, South Africa

    Article • Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, April 2009, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  24. A model for a multi‐agency response management system (MARMS) for South Africa

    Article • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, April 2008, Emerald

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  25. From disaster relief to disaster risk reduction: a consideration of the evolving international relief mechanism

    Article • The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, April 2008, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  26. A letter from the Director of the African Centre for Disaster Studies - The different faces of vulnerability: Are we making any impact at all?

    Article • Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, April 2006, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  27. Disaster risk reduction initiatives in South Africa

    Article • Development Southern Africa, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  28. Governance, Politics, and Policy in South Africa by DEWALD VAN NIEKERK, GERRIT VAN DER WALDT and ALAN JONKER Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 324. £16·99 (pbk.).

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, September 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  29. Climate change adaptation and disaster law

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk

  30. National Planning and Disaster

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dewald van Niekerk