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Addressing business from a social-ecological perspective to understand and deal with risk and resilience

Author: Haywood, Lorren K ; Nel, D ; Trotter, D Date: Aug 2010 Corporate sustainability, as currently practiced, is largely directed at reducing direct and immediate environmental impacts in terms of resource consumption and waste emissions. Despite two decades of engagement with corporate sustainability, ... Read more
Adopting the Internet of Things technologies in environmental management in South Africa

Author: Dlodlo, N Date: Apr 2012 This paper reports on potential applications of IoT technologies that could contribute to sustainable environmental management (EM in South Africa). These technologies have been categorised under environmental quality and protection, natural ... Read more
Development of a risk-based mine closure cost calculation model

Author: Du Plessis, A ; Brent, AC Date: Jun 2006 The study summarised in this paper focused on expanding existing South African mine closure cost calculation models to provide a new model that incorporates risks, which could have an effect on the closure costs during the life cycle of the ... Read more
Guidelines for human settlement planning and design: The red book

Author: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR Date: 2000 This document provides performance-based guidelines for informed decision-making. The purpose is essentially to indicate the qualities that should be sought in South African settlements, and to provide practical guidance on how these qualities ... Read more
Healthy communities: addressing vulnerability and environmental health

Author: Wright, C ; John, J Date: Jan 2009 Air pollution in South Africa is a serious environmental health threat, particularly in urban and peri-urban metropolitan areas, but also in low income settlements where indoor air pollution from domestic fuel use is a concern. A healthy ... Read more
Legislative challenges hindering mine waste being reused and repurposed in South Africa

Author: Haywood, Lorren K ; De Wet, Benita ; De Lange, Willem J ; Oelofse, Suzanna HH Date: Nov 2019 While the waste hierarchy promotes the reuse of waste there currently remains limited reuse of mine waste in South Africa. Overburden, waste rock, tailings and slag are stockpiled or disposed leading to environmental liabilities including ... Read more
The management of fire-adapted ecosystems in an urban setting: the case of Table Mountain National Park, South Africa

Author: Van Wilgen, BW ; Forsyth, GG ; Prins, P Date: Mar 2012 The Table Mountain National Park is a 265-km² conservation area embedded within a city of 3.5 million people. The highly diverse and unique vegetation of the park is both fire prone and fire adapted, and the use of fire forms an integral part ... Read more
National legislation, international conventions and exposure to harmful chemicals

Author: Hietkamp, S Date: Jun 2006 Without legislation pollution is regarded as an “externality” high levels of air and water pollution in Europe resulted increasing industrialisation. Disasters happened e.g. London smog in the 1950 and the first clean air legislation was ... Read more
Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrated environmental management

Author: Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, DEAT Date: 2004 This document has been written for a wide audience. Its objective is to serve as an initial reference text. The aim is to provide an introductory information source to government authorities, environmental practitioners, nongovernmental ... Read more
Three centuries of managing introduced conifers in South Africa: benefits, impacts, changing perceptions and conflict resolution

Author: Van Wilgen, BW ; Richardson, DM Date: May 2012 Alien conifers, mainly pines, have been planted in South Africa for a range of purposes for over 300 years. Formal plantations cover 660 000 ha of the country, and invasive stands of varying density occur on a further 2.9 million ha. These ... Read more
Toward structural assessment of semi-arid African savannahs and woodlands: The potential of multitemporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 fine beam images

Author: Mathieu, Renaud SA ; Naidoo, Laven ; Cho, Moses A ; Leblon, B ; Main, Russell S ; Wessels, Konrad J ; Asner, GP ; Buckley, J ; Van Aardt, J ; Erasmus, BFN ; Smit, IPJ Date: Nov 2013 Woody vegetation structure affects wildlife habitat selection and species diversity for a wide range of taxa, and at a variety of scales. Indicators of woody structure can indicate the spatio-temporal variability of biodiversity, species ... Read more
Transdisciplinary learning across case studies

Author: Slinger, J ; Taljaard, Susan Date: Jan 2020 Seven international case studies in coastal management are examined in this book. Each of the case studies dealt with an inlet or mouth management issue, but they were not selected based on similarity in their ecological (biophysical) or ... Read more
Ultrastructural analyses of platelets and fibrin networks in BALB/c mice after inhalation of spherical and rod-shaped titanium nanoparticles

Author: Oosthuizen, MA ; Pretorius, E ; Oberholzer, HM ; Van der Spuy, WJ Date: Oct 2010 Engineered nanoparticles are designed to perform specific functions and therefore have specific properties that could potentially be harmful. Nanoparticles such as titanium dioxide have the potential to become transparent and are therefore ... Read more
Ultrastructural analyses of platelets and fibrin networks in BALB/c mice after inhalation of spherical and rod-shaped titanium nanoparticles

Author: Oosthuizen, MA ; Pretorius, E ; Oberholzer, HM ; Van der Spuy, WJ Date: Oct 2010 Engineered nanoparticles are designed to perform specific functions and therefore have specific properties that could potentially be harmful. Nanoparticles such as titanium dioxide have the potential to become transparent and are therefore ... Read more
Water security in Southern Africa: Discourses securitising water and the implications for water governance and politics

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Jan 2016 In the South African water discourse, the water security concept is a complex notion that not only covers the quantitative aspects of water demand and supply but is also linked to national security and political stability, as well as human ... Read more
Workshop proceedings: "We are the Olifants" - Key stakeholder workshop for the Upper Olifants River study

Author: Funke, Nicola S ; Nortje, Karen Date: 31 Mar 2013 The Upper Olifants Key Stakeholder Workshop took place at the CSIR Knowledge Commons on 26 February 2013. The workshop participants included representatives from national government, provincial government, local government, mining, industry, ... Read more

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