Rudi Pretorius started his career in 1981 as a research assistant at the former Atmospheric Sciences Division of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, lectures Geography since 1987 at the University of South Africa and has been promoted to Associate Professor in Geography from January 2018. Apart from coordinating the undergraduate program in environmental management at Unisa, he currently lectures Geography to first-year students and assists with postgraduate supervision. In 2009 he was one of the recipients of the Unisa Excellence in Tuition Award. His qualifications include an MSc (on air pollution dispersion in the Eastern Highveld of Mpumalanga), a Masters in Business Leadership and a PhD (obtained in 2017) and which explores the links between undergraduate Geography and Education for Sustainability at South African universities. His research interests cover Education for sustainability, Sustainable development in higher education, Scholarship of teaching and learning in geography and Open and distance learning applications in geography and environmental study fields. His publications include contributions to the World sustainability series and the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and recently co-edited the ground-breaking volume Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15604-6).
