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Adapting to global change in a diverse landscape: the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve

Author: Davis, C ; Archer, Emma RM ; Maserumule, R ; Stevens, N ; Sinden, LA Date: Apr 2010 This study will draw on the findings of a significant amount of research that has already taken place in the area. There is a keen desire amongst diverse stakeholders to access global change information (for example, the use of such information ... Read more
Agrarian land use decision making in the light of global change and climate change

Author: Murambadoro, M ; Mambo, J Date: Sep 2014 The South African government has since independence taken steps to redress land rights for communities that were dispossessed of such rights as a result of past discriminatory laws and practices during apartheid. A great deal of work has been ... Read more
Bridging the science policy interface: A new era for South African research and the role of knowledge brokering

Author: Godfrey, Linda K ; Funke, Nicola S ; Mbizvo, C Date: Jun 2010 Government departments and agencies are faced with issues of increasing socio-ecological complexities around environmental sustainability and global change, which require them to make decisions that have the potential to impact greatly on ... Read more
Climate change handbook for North-Eastern South Africa

Author: Davis, C Date: Apr 2010 In many countries, decision-makers are seeking information from a wide range of disciplines on the potential impacts of climate change on environmental and socio-economic systems. This handbook is designed to present future climate change ... Read more
Disaster management and risk reduction in South Africa

Author: Bruwer, A ; Van Staden, M ; Le Roux, Alize ; Van Niekerk, Cornelia W Date: Dec 2017 The 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction concludes that the mortality and economic loss associated with extensive risks (minor but recurrent disaster risks) in low- and middle-income countries are trending up. In the last ... Read more
Effects of global change on tropical ecosystems

Author: Scholes, RJ ; Van Breemen, N Date: Sep 1997 Alteration of land use will continue to be the dominant driver of environmental change in the tropics for the next several decades. It can take the form of fundamental vegetation cover transformation, or of intensification of existing land ... Read more
Geography students learn more about risk and vulnerability

Author: Murambadoro, M Date: Nov 2011 As part of the outreach programme the South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas (SARVA) was introduced to geography students of the Society of South African Geographers Students. The students were attending their annual conference hosted by ... Read more
The global change challenge: a regional perspective

Author: Engelbrecht, F ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Oct 2012 In this presentation the author presents the most recent projections of future climate change over southern Africa, based on high-resolution downscalings of the global model projections of Assessment Reports Four and Five of the Intergovernmental ... Read more
Global change, urban livelihoods and food security; presentation

Author: Murambadoro, M Date: Feb 2012 Food security research and policy have focused more on the rural poor where the incidence and depth of poverty is more pronounced. Urban livelihoods are based on cash income and many people in urban areas are employed in the informal sector ... Read more
Introduction

Author: Mambo, Julia Date: Dec 2017 This chapter introduces the second edition of the Atlas by outlining the context under which the book is written and the importance of the content. Read more
Latitudinal gradients and poleward expansion of mangrove ecosystems in South Africa: 50 years after Macnae’s first assessment

Author: Peer, N ; Rajkaran, A ; Miranda, NAF ; Taylor, RH ; Newman, Brent K ; Porri, F ; Raw, JL ; Mbense, SP ; Adams, JB ; Perissinotto, R Date: Jul 2018 Mangroves occur in South African estuaries at their poleward distribution limits, extending into temperate habitats. In 1963, William Macnae published the first comprehensive assessment of mangrove swamps in South Africa and made firsthand ... Read more
Libre knowledge and opportunity

Author: Tucker, K Date: Sep 2007 This presentation looks at global issues like conservation, biodiversity, sustainable development, and climate change just to name a few, and the question is, what can be done about it in terms of collective knowledge, access to free information, ... Read more
Long-term trends in vegetation phenology and productivity over Namaqualand using the GIMMS AVHRR NDVI3g data from 1982 to 2011

Author: Davis, CL ; Hoffman, MT ; Roberts, W Date: Jul 2017 Vegetation monitoring of arid and semi-arid environments using remotely sensed vegetation indices over long periods of time is essential to improve the understanding of the processes related to change. In this paper, 30 years of biweekly AVHRR ... Read more
Municipal vulnerability to climate change

Author: Mambo, Julia ; Murambadoro, Miriam D Date: Dec 2017 South Africa, like the rest of Africa, is considered highly vulnerable to climate change and variability as well as to global change. Climate change is and will continue to be an issue of concern in the development of the country. South Africa ... Read more
Profiling the vulnerabilities and risks of South African settlements

Author: Le Roux, Alize ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Van Huyssteen, Elsona ; Van Niekerk, Cornelia W Date: Dec 2017 Cities, towns and settlements provide housing and livelihoods for a growing global population. Estimates indicate that in 2014, 54% of the world’s population and 40% of the population on the African continent were considered urban. African ... Read more
Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response

Author: Wise, RM ; Fazey, I ; Smith, S ; Park, SE ; Eakin, HC ; Archer, Emma RM ; Campbell, B Date: Jan 2014 The need to adapt to climate change is now widely recognised as evidence of its impacts on social and natural systems grows and greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated. Yet efforts to adapt to climate change, as reported in the literature ... Read more
The Siemens vision

Author: Van Dijk, B ; Oosthuizen, C Date: Oct 2017 This presentation discusses the Siemens vision for the future, taking in account factors such as global drivers of change, global skills shortage, and digitalisation. Read more
Stratospheric ozone transboundary transport to upper troposphere North Africa

Author: Ture, K ; Tsidu, GM ; Sivakumar, V Date: Sep 2011 Stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) influences the chemical composition of both the stratosphere and the troposphere and represents an important aspect of global change [Butchart and Scaife, 2001]. It is also often associated with severe ... Read more
Trends in anthropogenic mercury emissions estimated for South Africa during 2000-2006

Author: Masekoameng, KE ; Leaner, J ; Dabrowski, James M Date: Aug 2010 Recent studies suggest an increase in mercury (Hg) emissions to the global environment, particularly as a result of anthropogenic activities. This has prompted many countries to complete Hg emission inventories, based on country-specific Hg ... Read more

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