Scholars
Happy Mathew Tirivangasi
University of Jyväskylä
Based in
Finland
Europe
Happy Mathew Tirivangasi is a political and environmental sociologist specializing in climate change, health, adaptation, and resilience. With over twenty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters published by leading academic publishers like Springer Nature and Palgrave Macmillan, his research focuses on topics such as indigenous knowledge, decolonizing climate change, gender, migration, xenophobia, and transitional justice. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Venda, South Africa, and a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Happy holds an MSc in Governance and Development and an MA in Sociology, and he is also a Topic Editor for Frontiers in Human Dynamics and a reviewer for over 20 international journals.
Country(ies) of Specialty
South Africa ZimbabweFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate Justice Scientific assessments Indigenous studiesPublications
Articles
Tirivangasi, Happy Mathew. “Navigating planetary human entanglements through climate
change-induced human mobility in Zimbabwe: An Afrocentric perspective from the
global south.” International Journal of Population Studies (2024).
Tirivangasi, Happy Mathew, and Tiina Kontinen. “An Afrocentric approach to climate
change adaptation: indigenous seasonal predictors among Ndau people in
Chimanimani in Zimbabwe.” Disaster Prevention and Management: An
International Journal (2024).
Tirivangasi, Happy Mathew, and Louis Nyahunda. “The interplay of Christianity and Ndau African traditional religion in shaping climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe: An Afrocentric
analysis.” Sustainable Development (2024).
Nyahunda, Louis, and Happy Tirivangasi. “Beyond the Paternalistic Culture of Civil Protection in the Wake of Disasters: Navigating the Essentiality of Building a Local Culture of Disaster
Resilience in Zimbabwe.” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. 1-20.
Ndabaningi, Angeline, Happy Mathew Tirivangasi, and Johan Bastiaensen. “Bottom-up microfinance plus as an entry point for transformative empowerment of women and climate change adaptation in the smallholder domain in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe.” The Palgrave handbook of global social problems. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. 1-25.
Tirivangasi, Happy, et al. “Walking where men walk: gendered politics of smallholder agriculture in Zimbabwe.” Present Environment and Sustainable Development 17.1
(2023).
Tirivangasi, Happy Mathew, et al. “Exploring Humanitarian response strategies in the aftermath of disasters induced by climate change in Zimbabwe.” Development Southern Africa 40.2 (2023): 313-328.
Nyahunda, Louis, Shyleen Chibvura, and Happy Mathew Tirivangasi. “Social work practice: accounting for double injustices experienced by women under the confluence of Covid-19 pandemic and climate change impacts in Nyanga, Zimbabwe.” Journal of Human Rights and Social Work 6.3 (2021): 213-224.
Nyahunda, Louis, and Happy Mathew Tirivangasi. “Interdisciplinary approach to climate change: Intersecting environmental social work and sociology in climate change interventions from an Afrocentric perspective.” Handbook of Climate Change Management: Research, Leadership, Transformation. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. 1-16.
Nyahunda, Louis, and Happy Mathew Tirivangasi. “Harnessing of social capital as a determinant for climate change adaptation in Mazungunye communal lands in Bikita, Zimbabwe.” Scientifica 2021.1 (2021): 8416410.
Tirivangasi, Happy M. “Regional disaster risk management strategies for food security: Probing Southern African Development Community channels for influencing national policy.” Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 10.1 (2018): 1-7.