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Adapting environmental management systems for African ports

Author: Arabi, Sumaiya ; Taljaard, Susan ; Weerts, Steven P Date: Mar 2022 Globally sustainable environmental practices in ports have been linked to socio-economic benefits. While African ports are increasingly acknowledging environmental issues and starting to address these in environmental policy, many are still ... Read more
Advancing ecosystem accounting in estuaries: Swartkops Estuary case study

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB ; Riddin, T Date: Mar 2023 Rapid degradation of ecosystems and loss of ecosystem services have sparked interest in developing approaches to report and integrate such change with socio-economic information systems, such as the System of National Accounts. Here we describe ... Read more
Advancing the science of environmental flow management for protection of temporarily closed estuaries and coastal lagoons

Author: Stein, ED ; Gee, EM ; Adams, JB ; Irving, K ; Van Niekerk, Lara Date: Feb 2021 The science needed to inform management of environmental flows to temporarily closed estuaries and coastal lagoons is decades behind the state of knowledge for rivers and large embayments. These globally ubiquitous small systems, which are ... Read more
ASTRAL pool of technologies: Digital twins to support IMTA within the Atlantic area

Author: Pias, M ; Orazi, G ; Drews, P ; Paris, M ; Dupont, C ; Smith, Marie E ; Michalek, K ; Lain, L ; Martinez, J ; Khelifi, I Date: Sep 2022 Presentation on the ASTRAL pool of technologies: Digital twins to support IMTA within the Atlantic area. Read more
Blue carbon sinks in South Africa and the need for restoration to enhance carbon sequestration

Author: Raw, JL ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Chauke, O ; Riddin, T ; Adams, JB Date: Feb 2023 Blue carbon ecosystems (mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses) contribute towards climate change mitigation because they are efficient at sequestering atmospheric CO2 into long-term total ecosystem carbon stocks. Destruction or disturbance ... Read more
Case studies of modified South African estuaries and implications for ecological restoration in these systems

Author: Weerts, Steven P ; MacKay, F ; Taljaard, Susan ; Van Niekerk, Lara Date: Sep 2019 Presentation on the case studies of modified South African estuaries and implications for ecological restoration in these systems. Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction

Author: Slinger, J ; Taljaard, Susan ; D'Hont, F Date: Jan 2020 This book captures the learning from a cross-comparison of seven international inlet or estuary mouth management situations. The conceptual framing is provided by a focus on systems knowledge and its development and use within coastal management. ... Read more
Climate change and the Knysna Estuary

Author: James, J ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Lamberth, S Date: 2023 Estuaries are shallow coastal environments that are influenced by both tidal action and freshwater inflow. As a result of the mixing of marine and fresh waters, estuaries are naturally dynamic, unstable environments with physico-chemical ... Read more
Coastal management – working towards the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030)

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Adams, J Date: Sep 2021 The UN declared 2021-2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science and identified research and technology priority areas to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. We reviewed the current status of scientific support for coastal management in ... Read more
Coastal vulnerability and climate change adaptation in South Africa: Remote sensing challenges and opportunities

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: May 2022 South Africa is nestled between the Atlantic, the Southern and the Indian Ocean. Its coast is about 3000 km long and comprises 300 estuaries. Its coast stretches across three bioclimatic regions, namely the Cool Temperate South-West, a Warm ... Read more
Complex Coastal Systems: Transdisciplinary Learning on International Case Studies

Author: Slinger, J ; Taljaard, Susan ; D'Hont, F Date: Feb 2020 The transdisciplinary research synthesised in this book represents an endeavour by a group of coastal researchers and policy analysts to learn from a cross-comparison of seven international case studies on tidal inlet or estuary mouth management ... Read more
Compound flooding due to interaction of waves and river discharge at Breede Estuary, South Africa

Author: Kupfer, S ; Santamaria-Aguilar, S ; Pieterse, Amy ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Vafeidis, AT Date: May 2022 Recent studies on compound flooding have considered the interaction of storm-tide and fluvial or pluvial flood drivers, whereas the contribution of waves to compound flooding so far has been neglected. In this study, we investigate compound ... Read more
The contribution of the WRC to estuarine research in support of effective policy development and resource

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, J ; Taljaard, Susan ; Lamberth, S Date: Jan 2021 The Water Research Commission (WRC) has been a staunch and enduring funder of estuarine research in South Africa, with support ranging from identifying research gaps, to the development of dedicated research programs, student advancement, ... Read more
Disaggregation and assessment of estuarine pressures at the country-level to better inform management and resource protection – the South African experience

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Taljaard, Susan ; Lamberth, SJ ; Adams, JB ; Weerts, Steven P ; MacKay, CF Date: May 2022 Globally, the ability of estuaries to sustain functionality and productivity is deteriorating rapidly under ever-increasing anthropogenic pressures. We present a systematic approach to identify, characterise and rank global pressures affecting ... Read more
Dispersal and coastal geomorphology limit potential for mangrove range expansion under climate change

Author: Raw, JL ; Van der Stocken, T ; Carroll, D ; Harris, LR ; Rajkaran, A ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB Date: Nov 2022 Latitudinal range limits for mangroves on high-energy, wave-dominated coasts are controlled by geomorphological features and estuarine dynamics. Mangroves reach a southern global range limit along the South African coastline, but the distribution ... Read more
Effective management of closed hypereutrophic estuaries requires catchment-scale interventions

Author: Lemley, DA ; Lamberth, SJ ; Manuel, W ; Nunes, M ; Rishworth, GM ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB Date: Jun 2021 Increased nutrient loading associated with rapid population growth is the leading cause of deteriorating water quality in urbanized estuaries globally. Small estuaries are particularly sensitive to changes when connection with the marine ... Read more
An Estuary Ecosystem Classification that encompasses biogeography and a high diversity of types in support of protection and management

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB ; James, NC ; Lamberth, SJ ; MacKay, CF ; Turpie, JK ; Rajkaran, A ; Weerts, Steven P ; Whitfield, AK Date: Mar 2020 For nearly three decades, the Whitfield (1992) characterisation scheme served as a reference framework to type South African estuaries. We outline a revised ecosystem classification scheme that incorporates biogeographical zonation and ... Read more
Fisheries Support through OCIMS and MarCOSIO projects

Author: Smith, Marie E Date: Oct 2022 Presentation on the environmental overview, Earth Observation Product Development and National and regional initiatives supporting fisheries-National Oceans and Coastal Information Management System (OCIMS)-Marine and Coastal Operations for ... Read more
The future of aquaculture is now

Author: Lain, Elisabeth J ; Smith, Marie E Date: Nov 2021 Aquaculture in South Africa is really taking off, with around 230 farms countrywide, cultivating a wide variety of fish and shellfish species. Most of these are freshwater farms, and it is the freshwater sector that is indeed growing the ... Read more
Geographic information system data considerations in the context of the enhanced bathtub model for coastal inundation

Author: Williams, LL ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Oct 2022 This study determines input data appropriateness for geographic information system-based enhanced bathtub model (eBTM) modeling of coastal inundation in an urban setting. Various tests were conducted concerning digital surface models (DSMs) ... Read more

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