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An alternative rainwater harvesting system design methodology

Author: Gibberd, Jeremy T Date: Dec 2020 Climate change and rapid urbanisation have meant there is increasing pressure on water supplies in human settlements in South Africa. This has led to unreliable water supplies and outages. It is therefore important to understand whether there ... Read more
An autocorrelation analysis approach to detecting land cover change using hyper-temporal time-series data

Author: Kleynhans, W ; Salmon, BP ; Olivier, JC ; Wessels, Konrad J ; Van den Bergh, F Date: Jul 2011 Human settlement expansion is one of the most pervasive forms of land cover change in the Gauteng province of South Africa. A method for detecting new settlement developments in areas that are typically covered by natural vegetation using ... 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
CSIR guidelines for the provision of social facilities in South African settlements

Author: Green, Chéri A ; Argue, T Date: Oct 2012 The CSIR has developed guidelines for access norms and thresholds to facilitate the planning of social facilities and recreational spaces in a range of settlements. These guidelines have been developed over many years by the CSIR and have ... Read more
Good choices make healthy homes: Reflections on sustainable human settlements in SA

Author: Leuta, T ; John, J ; Wright, C Date: Feb 2012 According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) survey, scientific evidence on the associations between housing and health has grown over recent years. In spite of this knowledge, housing and construction standards are still governed by technical ... Read more
Housing / Human Settlements Atlas series: continued support towards more sustainable human settlements

Author: Goss, H ; Busgeeth, K ; Le Roux, Alize Date: 01 Sep 2010 The National Department of Human Settlements has contracted the CSIR Built Environment Unit in the development of the Human Settlements Atlas (previously Housing Atlas) series. The overall aim of the series is to provide a spatial interpretation ... Read more
Human settlements

Author: Van Niekerk, Cornelia W ; Le Roux, Alize Date: Sep 2017 This chapter describes some of the key drivers and processes of vulnerability and risks in human settlements in southern Africa that pose considerable challenges, but also opportunities, for climate change adaptation. Data for the whole of ... Read more
A landscape study of South African dissertations in the field of human settlements between 1994 and 2019

Author: De Jager, Peta ; Van Reenen, Coralie A ; Napier, Mark ; Sebake, Thandi N ; Bole, Sheldon Date: Dec 2019 Copyright 2019 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Read more
Remote sensing based ecosystem state assessment in the Sandveld region, South Africa

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; O'Farrell, Patrick J ; Roberts, W Date: Dec 2012 We present a remote sensing based approach for assessing ecosystem state or intactness to inform land use management and conservation planning. Using segmented multispectral medium resolution satellite imagery, parameters related to the image ... Read more
The science, technology and innovation/sustainability nexus

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Dec 2015 Human settlements historically conjure up contradictory images (think Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities): one is that of the dynamic, cosmopolitan centre of business, culture and entertainment with lively, diverse and socially inclusive ... Read more
Sustainability analysis of human settelements in South Africa

Author: Du Plessis, C ; Landman, K Date: Jul 2002 The report is divided into four parts which consist of seven chapters. Within human settlement context the report’s understanding of sustainable development is one of an integrative and holistic process of maintaining a dynamic balance between ... Read more
Sustainable development criteria for Built Environment projects in South Africa (CSIR)

Author: Gibberd, Jeremy T Date: Jan 2010 This paper is based on work undertaken for the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD) developing a set of sustainable development criteria for built environment projects requiring environmental impact assessments. ... Read more
Sustainable drainage system

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Oct 2015 Conventional human settlement formation creates hard surfaces which impede the natural absorption of rainfall into the ground. Water collected from these hard surfaces has to be conveyed to some end destination where it is discharged. This ... Read more
Towards a spatial development perspective for Southern Africa

Author: Chakwizira, J Date: Nov 2008 To ensure equitable development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, unravelling and understanding the role that physical space and spatial structures play in economic growth is of cardinal importance. In this regard, ... Read more
Water marginality in rural and peri-urban communities

Author: Adeyeye, K ; Gibberd, Jeremy T ; Chakwizira, J Date: Nov 2020 Water supply in an increasing number of rural and peri-urban communities can be described as marginal i.e. subject to failure, becoming unaffordable or increasingly difficult to access. A range of common factors contribute to water marginalisation ... Read more

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