Chapter 1. The development and context of Geography in South Africa -- Part I. Physical and Environmental Geography -- Chapter 2. The making of the South African landscape -- Chapter 3. Mapping the environment, past and present -- Chapter 4. Minerals and mining in South Africa -- Chapter 5. Climate change during the late Quaternary in South Africa -- Chapter 6. The Holocene climates of South Africa -- Chapter 7. South African biomes and their changes over time -- Chapter 8. Ecosystem services in South Africa -- Chapter 9. Multi-scale drivers of the South African weather and climate -- Chapter 10. Water resources in South Africa -- Chapter 11. Contemporary surface processes and landscape change -- Chapter 12. Soils, agriculture and food -- PART II. Human Geography -- Chapter 13. Human evolution, archaeology and the South African Stone Age landscape during the last 100,000 years -- Chapter 14. The geography of heritage in South Africa -- Chapter 15. Agriculture and agrarian change in South Africa -- Chapter 16. Small town change in South Africa -- Chapter 17. The geography of education: from race to class apartheid? -- Chapter 18. How food secure are South Africa’s cities? -- Chapter 19. Housing and shelter in South Africa -- Chapter 20. The economic development of South Africa’s townships -- Chapter 21. Gentrification in South African cities -- Chapter 22. Creative industries and neighbourhood change in South African cities -- Chapter 23. Tourism and accommodation services in South Africa: a spatial perspective -- PART III. South Africa and the Contemporary World -- Chapter 24. South Africa in the global political economy: the BRICS connection -- Chapter 25. Changing geographies of immigration to South Africa -- Chapter 26. Geographies and geographers of post-apartheid poverty -- Chapter 27. Revamping local economic development policy in South Africa -- Chapter 28. Connecting South Africa: ICTs, uneven development and poverty debates -- Chapter 29. Innovation in a changing South Africa: extant debates and critical reflections -- Chapter 30. Towards a broader conceptualisation of environmental justice in South Africa -- Chapter 31. Geological and environmental hazards in South Africa -- Chapter 32. Disasters and disaster risk management in South Africa -- Chapter 33. South Africa’s future climate: trends and projections -- Chapter 34. New perspectives on the discipline of Geography in South Africa.This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to other areas of the Global South. All chapters are original contributions, providing a state of the art research baseline on key themes in physical, human and environmental geography, and in understanding the changing geographical landscapes of modern South Africa. These contributions set the scene for an understanding of the relationships between modern South Africa and the wider contemporary world, including issues of sustainable development and growth in the Global South. .