Author:Marais, R; Van Wilgen, BW; Stevens, DDate:Jan 2004This paper provides estimates of the costs of clearing important species of invasive alien plants, as well as of progress made with clearing, based on data from a recently developed GIS-based project information system. Before the deployment ...Read more
Author:Kunert, HW; Machatine, AGJ; Niyongabo, P; Govender, M; Mwakikunga, Bonex WDate:Oct 2012Scattering matrix for two phonon processes at k = 0 in Si and Ge of O(sup7)(subh) symmetry is given. Also diagonalization of spin-orbit interaction Hamiltonian has been computed by means of Clebsh-Gordan coefficients. The authors have concluded ...Read more
Author:Smuts, H; Kotzé, PaulaDate:Aug 2015High levels of shared knowledge can positively influence outsourcing performance and the combination of processes designed to transfer explicit and tacit knowledge, has the most influence on the level of shared knowledge. Some organisations ...Read more
Author:Smuts, H; Kotzé, PaulaDate:Aug 2015High levels of shared knowledge can positively influence outsourcing performance and the combination of processes designed to transfer explicit and tacit knowledge, has the most influence on the level of shared knowledge. Some organisations ...Read more
Author:Archibald, S; Nickless, A; Govender, Nicolin; Scholes, RJ; Lehsten, VDate:Nov 2010This study investigates inter-annual variability in burnt area in southern Africa and the extent to which climate is responsible for this variation. We compare data from long-term field sites across the region with remotely sensed burnt area ...Read more
Author:Scholes, RJ; Noble, IRDate:02 Nov 2001The terrestrial biosphere currently absorbs about a quarter of the anthropogenic carbon emissions. Can this carbon sink help to mitigate climate change? In their Perspective, the authors argue that the world will not be worse off for having ...Read more
Author:Mambo, Julia; Murambadoro, Miriam DDate:Mar 2018The climate change response policy gives the mandate to all municipalities and other levels of government to develop and implement climate chnage adaptation response. The availability of appropriate information is essential for this process ...Read more
Author:Musvoto, Constansia DDate:Jun 2018South Africa has adopted a sustainable development path and this is guided by several country level strategies and the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Agriculture is central to South Africa's sustainable development, with small ...Read more
Author:Maritz, Johan; Arnold, Kathryn A; Roux, Michael P; Le Roux, Alize; Verhaeghe, Benoit MJADate:Oct 2019Roads play a vital role in strengthening the socio-economic development of regions in sub-Saharan Africa by providing local communities with critical connections between essential market points, service towns and infrastructure. To enhance ...Read more
Author:Todorovic, M; Jovanovic, NebojsaDate:Apr 2020Weather represents day-to-day atmospheric condition (e.g. air temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine hours, cloud cover, wind direction and speed, etc.) over a short term at a given place and time. Climate is defined as the ...Read more
Author:Archer, Emma RM; Tadross, MADate:2009Despite significant attention paid to desertification and climate change in the last few decades, interactions between the phenomena, as well as implications thereof, have received less of a focus. Such a trend is particularly marked in the ...Read more
Author:Wright, C; Thambiran, Tirusha; Matooane, M; Engelbrecht, F; Bopape, Mary-Jane M; Olwach, JDate:Jul 2011In South Africa, the most commonly talked-about climate change-related human health risk is a changing pattern in the distribution and severity of malaria. However, there are three other important issues that also deserve some attention if ...Read more
Author:Matooane, MDate:Mar 2009Climate change is anticipated to have serious adverse health effects, particularly in developing countries. Impacts will be exacerbated by poor or non-existent social, technological and financial adaptation and/or mitigation measures. In South ...Read more
Author:Haverkort, AJ; Franke, AC; Engelbrecht, FA; Steyn, JMDate:Mar 2013Explorations of the impact of climate change on potential potato yields were obtained by downscaling the projections of six different coupled climate models to high spatial resolution over southern Africa. The simulations of daily maximum and ...Read more
Author:James, J; Van Niekerk, Lara; Lamberth, SDate:2023Estuaries are shallow coastal environments that are influenced by both tidal action and freshwater inflow. As a result of the mixing of marine and fresh waters, estuaries are naturally dynamic, unstable environments with physico-chemical ...Read more
Author:Landman, W; Diaz, A; Montecinos, A; Engelbrecht, FDate:Mar 2014Water availability in South America presents a considerable uncertainty across several time scales. This notion is a serious problem for various applications, such as agriculture and hydroelectric energy. Multi-decadal regional climate model ...Read more