Author:Forsyth, GG; Le Maitre, David C; O'Farrell, Patrick J; Van Wilgen, BWDate:Jul 2012Invasions by alien plants are a significant threat to the biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems and the services they provide. The South African Working for Water program was established to address this problem. It needs to formulate ...Read more
Author:Bosire, J; Celliers, Louis; Groeneveld, J; Paula, J; Schleyer, MHDate:Dec 2015The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region spans across a large latitudinal range, from the Somalia region, influenced
by the strong monsoon regime of the northern Indian Ocean, to the southern temperate regime of the tip of
South Africa, where ...Read more
Author:Blignaut, JDate:2010Restoration can provide a wide range of direct and indirect benefits to society. However, there are very few projects that have attempted to properly quantify those benefits and present them in such a way that society is motivated to invest ...Read more
Author:Polasky, S; Tallis, H; Reyers, BDate:Jun 2015Progress in ecosystem service science has been rapid, and there is now a healthy appetite among key public and private sector decision makers for this science. However, changing policy and management is a long-term project, one that raises a ...Read more
Author:Adams, JB; Van Niekerk, LaraDate:Jul 2020Temporarily closed estuaries require seasonal opening to tidal flows to maintain normal ecological processes. Each estuary has specific environmental flow (EFlow) requirements based on the relationship between freshwater inflow, coastal ...Read more
Author:Brill, G; Anderson, P; O’Farrell, Patrick JDate:Dec 2017Protected areas have been the dominant means of conserving biodiversity across the world for decades. This is often achieved by focussing on maintaining the ecological integrity of landscapes and the ecosystems they contain, including freshwater ...Read more
Author:Steyn, Maronel; Meissner, Richard; Nortje, Karen; Funke, Nicola S; Petersen, Chantel RDate:Jan 2019In this chapter, we will give an overview of water security in the South African context. To do this we will discuss a number of issues pertaining to water security in terms of elements that are ‘good’, ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ found within and outside ...Read more