Author:Haywood, Lorren K; Nortje, Karen; Dafuleya, G; Nethengwe, T; Sumbana, FDate:Sep 2020Rural tourism contributes towards socio-economic development. In South Africa, rural areas experience significant development challenges with limited opportunities. Rural tourism as an instrumental tool against poverty requires rural tourism ...Read more
Author:Scholes, BDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the assessment in the global context: From ozone to ecosystems. Process to evaluate the status of knowledge on complex problems relevant to societies. A key element of the contemporary science-policy interface.Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, RudolphDate:Sep 2013In Command and Control, humans have to make sense of the situation to support decision making on the required action. Development of an Air Defence Control system through a Systems Engineering process starts with assessment of existing systems ...Read more
Author:Mugwedi, LF; Rouget, M; Egoh, Benis N; Sershen; Ramdhani, S; Slotow, RDate:Jul 2017The restoration of degraded forests to enhance biodiversity, ecosystem services, as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation is now a major priority in cities around the world. This study evaluated the success of the Buffelsdraai ...Read more
Author:Ritchie, Michaela C; Debba, Pravesh; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Goodall, VDate:Sep 2018Remote sensing provides a valuable tool for monitoring land cover across large areas of land. A simple yet popular method for land cover classification is Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC), which assumes a single normal distribution of ...Read more
Author:Feig, Gregor T; Naidoo, Seneca; Ncgukana, NDate:Jun 2016The Waterberg Priority Area ambient air quality monitoring network was established in 2012 to monitor the ambient air quality in the Waterberg Air Quality Priority Area. Three monitoring stations were established in Lephalale, Thabazimbi and ...Read morecb
Author:Govindasamy, K; Potgieter, S; Land, K; Muzenda, EDate:Nov 2014Paper based sensors have found application in the clinical, environmental, and veterinary monitoring sectors. Popular examples of paper sensors include lateral flow tests (LFTs) and paper based microfluidic devices. The popularity of these ...Read more
Author:Ojwang, L; Rosendo, S; Celliers, Louis; Obura, D; Muit, A; Kamula, J; Mwang, MDate:Nov 2017The coastline of Kenya already experiences effects of climate change, adding to existing pressures such as urbanization. Integrated coastal management (ICM) is increasingly recognized as a key policy response to deal with the multiple challenges ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Mbolambi, CDate:May 2018The coastal zone as interface between land and sea faces much pressure from human activities. These pressures make it difficult for the coastal zones to fulfil their natural functions, so threatening the state of coastal environments and ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Mbolambi, CDate:May 2017Vegetation of the coast around the world fulfils an important role. It acts as a buffer against the impacts from the oceans such as waves and wind and protects the coastal hinterland from wind-blown sand and coastal erosion. However, due to ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Laven; Mathieu, Renaud SA; Kleynhans, W; Wessels, Konrad J; Asner, GP; Leblon, BDate:Jul 2014The woody component in African Savannahs provides essential ecosystem services such as fuel wood and construction timber to large populations of rural communities. Woody canopy cover (i.e. the percentage area occupied by woody canopy or CC) ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, JL; Brandt, MP; Vassard, PSDate:Sep 1995This report summarises the test work which has been completed on the comparison of different types of stoop flame propagation of coal dust explosions in a 200 m gallery. The research was conducted at kloppersbos research facilityRead more
Author:Mashiri, M; Venter, C; Buiten, DDate:Dec 2006Through the evolvement of gender and development theory, a recent shift can be observed away from specific projects for women towards the integration of gender analysis in all research and planning. Development in engendered transport research ...Read more
Author:Landman, WA; Graham, R; Knight, J; Engelbrecht, C; Olivier, CDate:Oct 2012The main objective of this research is to demonstrate the skill of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre’s coupled global seasonal forecasting system, GloSea4, as a seasonal forecasting tool for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and ...Read more
Author:Landman, WA; Graham, R; Knight, J; Engelbrecht, C; Olivier, CDate:Sep 2012Seasonal forecast skill over southern Africa may improve through the combination of forecasts. In the southern African region, however, only a small number of institutions have the capability to run global models operationally which can feed ...Read more
Author:Musvoto, Constansia D; Kgaphola, Motsoko J; Mwenge Kahinda, Jean-MarcDate:Dec 2021Agroforestry-based sustainable land management (SLM) interventions provide opportunities for tackling land degradation and its associated socio-economic issues. Agroforestry is not a guaranteed SLM fix as every agroforestry practice is not ...Read more
Author:Boca, MB; Pretorius, E; Kgaje, CG; Apostolides, ZDate:Mar 2008The suitability of micellar electrokinetic chromatography for the simultaneous trace determination of several compounds (sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, sulfanilic acid, sulfanilamide, 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoic acid and nonoxynol-9) was assessed. ...Read more