Author:Haywood, Lorren K; Nel, D; Trotter, DDate:Aug 2010Corporate sustainability, as currently practiced, is largely directed at reducing direct and immediate environmental impacts in terms of resource consumption and waste emissions. Despite two decades of engagement with corporate sustainability, ...Read more
Author:Dlodlo, NDate:Apr 2012This paper reports on potential applications of IoT technologies that could contribute to sustainable environmental management (EM in South Africa). These technologies have been categorised under environmental quality and protection, natural ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, A; Brent, ACDate:Jun 2006The study summarised in this paper focused on expanding existing South African mine closure cost calculation models to provide a new model that incorporates risks, which could have an effect on the closure costs during the life cycle of the ...Read more
Author:Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIRDate:2000This document provides performance-based guidelines for informed decision-making. The purpose is essentially to indicate the qualities that should be sought in South African settlements, and to provide practical guidance on how these qualities ...Read more
Author:Wright, C; John, JDate:Jan 2009Air pollution in South Africa is a serious environmental health threat, particularly in urban and peri-urban metropolitan areas, but also in low income settlements where indoor air pollution from domestic fuel use is a concern. A healthy ...Read more
Author:Haywood, Lorren K; De Wet, Benita; De Lange, Willem J; Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:Nov 2019While the waste hierarchy promotes the reuse of waste there currently remains limited reuse of mine waste in South Africa. Overburden, waste rock, tailings and slag are stockpiled or disposed leading to environmental liabilities including ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Forsyth, GG; Prins, PDate:Mar 2012The Table Mountain National Park is a 265-km² conservation area embedded within a city of 3.5 million people. The highly diverse and unique vegetation of the park is both fire prone and fire adapted, and the use of fire forms an integral part ...Read more
Author:Hietkamp, SDate:Jun 2006Without legislation pollution is regarded as an “externality” high levels of air and water pollution in Europe resulted increasing industrialisation. Disasters happened e.g. London smog in the 1950 and the first clean air legislation was ...Read more
Author:Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, DEATDate:2004This document has been written for a wide audience. Its objective is to serve as an initial reference text. The aim is to provide an introductory information source to government authorities, environmental practitioners, nongovernmental ...Read more
Author:Van Wilgen, BW; Richardson, DMDate:May 2012Alien conifers, mainly pines, have been planted in South Africa for a range of purposes for over 300 years. Formal plantations cover 660 000 ha of the country, and invasive stands of varying density occur on a further 2.9 million ha. These ...Read more
Author:Slinger, J; Taljaard, SusanDate:Jan 2020Seven international case studies in coastal management are examined in this book. Each of the case studies dealt with an inlet or mouth management issue, but they were not selected based on similarity in their ecological (biophysical) or ...Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, MA; Pretorius, E; Oberholzer, HM; Van der Spuy, WJDate:Oct 2010Engineered nanoparticles are designed to perform specific functions and therefore have specific properties that could potentially be harmful. Nanoparticles such as titanium dioxide have the potential to become transparent and are therefore ...Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, MA; Pretorius, E; Oberholzer, HM; Van der Spuy, WJDate:Oct 2010Engineered nanoparticles are designed to perform specific functions and therefore have specific properties that could potentially be harmful. Nanoparticles such as titanium dioxide have the potential to become transparent and are therefore ...Read more
Author:Meissner, RichardDate:Jan 2016In the South African water discourse, the water security concept is a complex notion that not only covers the quantitative aspects of water demand and supply but is also linked to national security and political stability, as well as human ...Read more
Author:Funke, Nicola S; Nortje, KarenDate:31 Mar 2013The Upper Olifants Key Stakeholder Workshop took place at the CSIR Knowledge Commons on 26 February 2013. The workshop participants included representatives from national government, provincial government, local government, mining, industry, ...Read more