Rate My Professor Pippin Anderson

Associate Professor Pippin Anderson is Head of the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science in the Faculty of Science at the University of Cape Town. She joined the department in 2008. Her teaching focuses primarily on physical geography while incorporating social drivers of environmental systems, including biogeography, landscape ecology, urban ecology, restoration ecology, and social-ecological systems. Anderson holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of Cape Town. Her research examines the nexus between landscape ecology and restoration, with emphasis on system function at the landscape level to support conservation and land-use objectives. Key areas include community ecology, ecosystem services, plant functional types, landscape history, conservation biology, urban ecology, and restoration ecology, often applied to contexts in Cape Town and broader urban environments.