Anton Cartwright

Anton Cartwright

ACC Associate

anton@econologic.co.za

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Bio

Anton Cartwright is an economist focussed on Africa’s urban transition, infrastructure and services, green finance, environmental degradation and poverty alleviation. He led the New Climate Economy’s work in Africa with a focus on infrastructure, services and climate change. In this capacity, he established the Tanzanian Urbanisation Laboratory in Dar es Salaam and the Ghana Urbanisation Think Tank in Accra. Anton was the ‘Green Economy’ Mistra Urban Futures Researcher at the African Centre Cities from 2013-2015.

More recently he was the lead author of South Africa’s Just Urban Transition Framework, Lead Author on Chapter 4 of the IPCC’s Special Report on of 1.5°C of warming released in 2018 and a Contributing Author to the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report. Previously he oversaw the City of Cape Town’s green economy and Climate Change Think Tank, emphasising the interface between built and ecological infrastructure and the potential work creation in low carbon, resource efficient, socially inclusive urban economies.

Anton continues to be a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, an Associate of the African Climate and Development Initiative and a Board member of the Isandla Institute. He is the founding Director of Credible Carbon South Africa’s first voluntary carbon market registry and a candidate registry for the Department of Minerals and Energy’s Domestic Carbon Standard, and continues to run the development economics consultancy, Econologic. He has post-graduate degrees in Economics and Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford.

PUBLICATIONS

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BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS

 

  • Cartwright, A. (2023). Linking Evidence and Climate-Resilient National Urban Policy in Tanzania amid Unfavourable Political Conditions: Reflections on the Tanzanian Urbanisation Laboratory, 2017–2020. Forthcoming with Bristol University (UK). 
  • Contributing Author (2021) IPCC Working Group II, Ch. 6 Cities, Settlements and Key Infrastructure https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_Chapter06.pdf 
  • Cartwright, A. and Savage, D. (2019). Environmental fiscal reform: efforts at co-producing the transition to a climate resilient economy in Cape Town. In M New, H Davies and D Scott (eds). Climate Change and Urban Development: Lessons from Cape Town. UCT Press, Cape Town. 
  • Cartwright, A. & Oelofse, G. (2016) Reflections on the valuing of ecosystem goods and services in Cape Town http://www.gcro.ac.za/media/reports/GCRO_Green_Assets_Report_Digital_version__book.pdf
  • Cartwright, A., Oelofse, G., Parnell, S., and Ward, S. (2012) Climate change at the city scale: impacts, adaptation and mitigation in Cape Town. Earthscan, London. 
  • Cartwright, A. (2012). Can mega-events deliver sustainability? The case of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. In Maennig & Zimbalist (eds) International Handbook on the Economics of Mega-Sporting Events. Edward-Elgar. ISBN 978-0-85793-026-2.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Culwick, C. Washbourne, CL. Anderson, P. Cartwright, A. Patel, Z. Smit, W. (2019). ‘CityLab reflections and evolutions: nurturing knowledge and learning for urban sustainability through co-production experimentation’. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Vol 39, pp 9-16. 
  • Ziervogel, G; Pelling, M; Cartwright, A; Chu, E; Deshpande, T; Harris, L; Hyams, K; Kuanda, K; Klaus, B; Michael, K; Pasquini, L; Pharoah, R; Rodina, L, Scott, D and Zweig, P. (2017). Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk. Environment and Urbanisation 
  • Van Heerden, J; Blignaut, J; Bohlmann, H; Cartwright, A; Diederichs, N; Mander, M. 2016. The economic and environmental effects of a carbon tax in South Africa: A dynamic CGE modelling approach, South African Journal of Economic and Management Science, 19(5) pp. 714-732.
  • Taylor, A; Cartwright, A and Sutherland, C (2014) Institutional Pathways for Local Climate Adaptation: A Comparison of Three South African Municipalities. AFD Focales 18, pp.142. 
  • Cartwright, A; Blignaut, J; De Wit, M; Goldberg, K; Mander, M; O’Donoghue, S and Roberts, D (2013) Economics of climate change adaptation at the local scale under conditions of uncertainty and resource constraints: the case of Durban, South Africa. Environment and Urbanisation, 25(1), pp. 1-19. 
  • Anderson, P; Brown-Luthango, M; Cartwright, A; Farouk, I and Smit, W (2013) Brokering communities of knowledge and practice: Reflections on the African Centre for Cities’ CityLab programme. Cities, 32, pp. 1-10. 
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