Research Interests / Areas of Specialty

• Environmental governance, management policy and legislation (South Africa);
• Environmental assessment tools and practice (EIA’s; SEA’s; EMF’s);
• Corporate environmental governance and sustainability reporting;
• Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem resource resilience;
• Environmental impacts of and adaptation to climate change;
• Local economic development (LED) policy and practice.

Publications

• Jorgensen, P.W, Trotter, D.C., Hill, T.R., 2016: Ecosystem services assessments in local municipal decision making in South Africa: justification for the use of a business-based approach. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 59 (2), 263-279.DOI:10.1080/09640568.2015.1009626

• Hill, T.R, Trotter, D.C. & Nel, E.L. (2003). De-industrialisation and local response in South Africa: The case of Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal.  Africa Insight, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp.40-46.

• Nel, E.L., Hill, T.R. & Trotter, D.C. (2006). The role of nature-based tourism in the promotion of locality based development in South Africa.  Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 27, No.2, pp.163-175.

Referee of articles submitted for publication:

•  June 2013: Review of an article submitted for publication in the SOUTH AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL

• October 2011: Review of an article submitted for publication in the AFRICAN JOURNAL ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION ASSESSMENT OF ARTICLE FOR PUBLICATION  - IN SPECIAL ISSUE ON ENVIRONMENT AND CONFLICT