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Accessibility, affordability, and equity in long-term spatial planning: Perspectives from a developing country

Author: Van Heerden, Quintin ; Karsten, Carike ; Holloway, Jennifer P ; Petzer, Engela ; Burger, Paul AD ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: May 2022 City planners attempt to create more equitable spaces by providing and improving access to benefits of living in cities, especially for previously disadvantaged urban communities. To this extent, evidence-based decision making is required to ... Read more
Capacitating local governments for the digital earth vision: Lessons learnt from the role of municipalities in the South African spatial data infrastructure

Author: Siebritz, LA ; Desai, A ; Coetzee, S ; Cooper, Antony K Date: Nov 2021 The Digital Earth vision foresees the availability and accessibility of geospatial information to achieve the goals of sustainable development, economic growth and social well-being. In the case of urban areas, upto-date geospatial information ... Read more
Circular economy and human settlements

Author: Cooper, Antony K Date: Sep 2022 This invited presentation provides an overview of the circular economy in human settlements in South Africa, with some examples. Read more
The Circular Economy as Development Opportunity: Exploring Circular Economy Opportunities across South Africa’s Economic Sectors

Author: Godfrey, Linda K ; Nahman, Anton ; Oelofse, Suzanna HH ; Trotter, Douglas ; Khan, Sumaya ; Nontso, Zintle ; Magweregwede, Fleckson ; Sereme, Busisiwe V ; Okole, Blessed N ; Gordon, Gregory ER ; Brown, Bernadette ; Pillay, Boyse ; Schoeman, Chanel ; Fazluddin, Shahed ; Ojijo, Vincent O ; Cooper, Antony K ; Kruger, Daniel M ; Napier, Mark ; Mokoena, Refiloe ; Steenkamp, Anton J ; Msimanga, Xolile P ; North, Brian C ; Seetal, Ashwin R ; Mathye, Salamina M Date: Dec 2021 The intention of this book is to present the CSIR’s position and interpretation of the circular economy, and to use it to drive discussions on where immediate circular economy opportunities are achievable in South Africa. Opportunities that ... Read more
The circular economy, human settlements and municipal government

Author: Cooper, Antony K ; Kruger, Tinus ; Godfrey, Linda K ; Napier, Mark Date: Jan 2024 The linear economy is where resources (including energy and space) move through the economy in one direction, from being harvested, collected or mined, through refining and processing to create products and services, to uses and consumption, ... Read more
Creating a set of high-resolution vulnerability indicators to support the disaster management response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Author: Le Roux, Alize ; Cooper, Antony K ; Ludick, Chantel J ; Arnold, Kathryn A ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Jun 2021 This chapter presents the "COVID-19 Vulnerability Dashboard" for South Africa, developed by the CSIR for the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC). It maps vulnerability to COVID-19 for the whole of South Africa, down to the level of the ... Read more
Groth’s algorithm to detect the possible presence of landmines using changes in the reflection of plants

Author: Schmitz, P ; Pretorius, R ; Du Plooy, N ; Cooper, Antony K Date: Aug 2023 Post-conflict reconstruction includes the removal of land mines and remnants of war. The CSIR conducted field experiments to determine the impact of TNT in the soil on plants as a possible means to detect landmines. All the leaf clip readings ... Read more
House modifications for preventing malaria (Review)

Author: Furnival-Adams, J ; Olanga, EA ; Napier, Mark ; Garner, P Date: Jan 2021 Despite being preventable, malaria remains an important public health problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that overall progress in malaria control has plateaud for the first time since the turn of the century. Researchers and ... Read more
Qualitative insights into the acceptance of QGIS in South Africa

Author: Henrico, S ; Coetzee, S ; Cooper, Antony K Date: Nov 2022 We conducted a study to find out whether and why South African users accepted QGIS. In the quantitative part of the study, we found that QGIS acceptance is primarily influenced by habit, followed by facilitating conditions, price value, and ... Read more
A review of the ICA model of stakeholders in a spatial data infrastructure (SDI)

Author: Cooper, Antony K ; Coetzee, Serena ; Moellering, H ; Rapant, P ; Crompvoets, J ; Hjelmager, J ; Delgado, T ; Iwaniak, A ; Kaczmarek, I Date: Aug 2023 The Commission on SDI & Standards (and its predecessors) of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has developed formal models of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI), using the viewpoints of the Reference Model for Open Distributed ... Read more
The role of age, gender, experience, education and professional registration in acceptance of QGIS in South Africa

Author: Henrico, S ; Coetzee, S ; Cooper, Antony K Date: Oct 2021 The benefits of free and open-source software for geographical information systems, such as QGIS, are appreciated by many all over the world. However, QGIS adoption in South Africa is not primarily influenced by the benefits attributed to ... Read more
The South African Spatial Data Infrastructure – Where are the Municipalities?

Author: Siebritz, LA ; Desai, A ; Cooper, Antony K ; Coetzee, S Date: 2022 Many municipalities in South Africa, especially those in rural areas, do not have the resources to maintain the geospatial information required to deliver essential services. Conversely, National Geo-spatial Information (NGI), the national ... Read more

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