Eckart Schumann
Eckart H Schumann is a Research Associate in the Department of Geosciences at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, and a former senior lecturer in the Department of Oceanography at the then University of Port Elizabeth. He has published widely in books and scientific journals on topics ranging from Agulhas Current structures, coastal ocean processes, estuarine dynamics, to weather and climate and coastal and estuarine sedimentary processes. Schumann is a life member of both the American Geophysical Union and the Royal Society of South Africa. He is also the author of two novels, Patterns of Change and The Gravity Machine.
Articles By This Author
Perceptions of race
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BEE – how do we deal with race classification?
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BEE and the question of race
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Climate change matters
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What race?
Much of the political discourse in South Africa revolves around an undefined attribute, namely, race. Everywhere there are articles and commentaries describing what ‘blacks’, ‘whites’,
What race?
Much of the political discourse in South Africa revolves around an undefined attribute, namely, race. Everywhere there are articles and commentaries describing what ‘blacks’, ‘whites’,