Author:Thambiran, Tirusha; Naidoo, SashaDate:Oct 2017Typically, mitigation and adaptation research has been developed separately, with the mitigation research community focused on taking a global approach to limiting cumulative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The adaptation research community, ...Read more
Author:Thambiran, Tirusha; Padayachi, Yerdashin RDate:Dec 2017This chapter provides an overview of the latest developments in air quality management and air pollution trends in South Africa. The critical issues of managing air quality in the context of climate change and risk and vulnerability, are also ...Read more
Author:Mostert, Frederik JDate:Oct 2019This paper presents a view of some of the challenges that are presented in investigating protection methodologies against explosive blast effects. In particular, the paper is concerned with experimental efforts that can aid in the understanding ...Read more
Author:Davis, Claire L; Vincent, KDate:Oct 2017The handbook (Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa) was conceived and designed with the intent to provide decision-makers with up-to-date information, appropriate for country planning, on the impacts and risks of ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, MelanieDate:Jul 2017This presentation provided an overview of the degree of risk of coastal flooding in South Africa and demonstrated decision support tools for mitigation and adaptation.Read more
Author:Naidoo, SashaDate:Sep 2022The Working Group III (WGIII) contribution to the 2022 IPCC Report (AR6) provides an updated global assessment of the climate change mitigation process in terms of developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, and an assessment ...Read more
Author:Cull, T; Vincent, K; Davis, C; Archer, Emma RMDate:Nov 2011This chapter is concerned with how we can respond to climate change in order to reduce its adverse impacts. Following international practice, these responses can broadly be grouped into mitigation (reduction in the causes of climate change) ...Read more
Author:Matekenya, W; Mehlwana, MADate:May 2006Climate change is emerging as one of the most challenging problems confronting the humankind in the 21st century. Global warming is almost proportionally interrelated with the pace of industrialization over the past 200 years. This paper ...Read more
Author:Jagarnath, M; Thambiran, Tirusha; Gebreslasie, MDate:Apr 2019Urbanization is one of the most significant and irreversible forms of land change, but we lack empirical evidence of these changes in the Global South. This is the first study to quantify past and explore future land change for the Durban ...Read more
Author:Archer, Emma RMDate:Oct 2017The transboundary nature of climate change necessitates regional cooperation and action in the form of comprehensive strategies and policy. Article 5(2) (a) of the Treaty of the Southern African Development Community, 1992 (SADC Treaty) states ...Read more