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:Tizora, P; Le Roux, Alize; Mans, Gerbrand G; Cooper, Antony KDate:Sep 2018Models which integrate and evaluate diverse factors of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change can be used to guide planners in making more informed decisions and achieving a balance between urban growth and preservation of the natural environment. ...Read more
Author:Marumbwa, FM; Cho, Moses A; Chirwa, PWDate:Jul 2020An understanding of drought and land cover interaction plays a crucial role in vegetation vulnerability studies and land use planning. However, there is paucity of information on drought, land cover and land use interaction in southern Africa. ...Read more
Author:Dabrowski, James M; De Klerk, LPDate:Apr 2013Routine sampling of water quality was conducted at sites along a longitudinal gradient from upstream to downstream in the Olifants River to determine spatial trends in nutrient and metal concentrations and to relate these trends to changes ...Read more
Author:Krygsman, S; de Jong, T; Schmitz, PDate:Jul 2007Daily activities and travel often follow a natural rhythm or flow that is structured by the fixed spatial and temporal constraints. The work and home location act as pegs that define individual’s activity space and it is within these spaces ...Read more
Author:Petersen, Chantel R; Jovanovic, Nebojsa; Grenfell, MCDate:Jun 2020This study evaluates relationships between contrasting land uses representing an anthropogenic impact gradient in a coastal agricultural catchment, and riparian vegetation, as reflected in changes in nutrient dynamics and water quality. The ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, AlizeDate:Jul 2013It is difficult for policy and decision makers to observe and quantify the implications of their land use policies and strategies and what it might or might not mean for a city's landscape a decade or more from now. The CSIR Spatial Planning ...Read more
Author:Celliers, Louis; Taljaard, Susan; Van Ballegooyen, RDate:Oct 2012This project demonstrates ‘a new way of doing
things’ for negotiating and integrating science into coastal governance. If successful, this research could inform the reform of traditional local coastal governance institutions.Read more
Author:Coetzer, KL; Erasmus, BFN; Witkowski, ETF; Bachoo, AKDate:Jul 2010This paper is a first step towards a conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on the South African Central Lowveld, quantifying the historical land-cover trends (1993-2006). During the analysis period, 36% of the ...Read more
Author:Tizora, P; Le Roux, Alize; Mans, Gerbrand G; Cooper, Antony KDate:Jul 2016The Western Cape Province is currently faced with population growth, declining household sizes, increasing household numbers, high levels of migration, urbanization and escalating development pressures. These factors have consequently triggered ...Read more
Author:Goede, MF; Cho, Moses A; Chirwa, W; Geldenhuys, CJDate:Jan 2020Miombo Woodland is the major Land use/land cover with important ecological functions in Africa. In Malawi, government-management was designed to manage Woodlands. However, when illegal activities continued, Participatory Forest Management ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony KDate:Apr 2014This presentation provides an overview of a meta-language for land use classification. It also explains why land use can’t always be determined from imagery, and why land use is not the same as land cover, zoning or planning - though they ...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:Amis, MA; Rouget, M; Balmford, A; Thuiller, W; Kleynhans, CJ; Day, DJC; Nel, JLDate:Apr 2007Freshwater biodiversity is globally threatened due to human disturbances, but freshwater ecosystems have been accorded less protection than their terrestrial and marine counterparts. Few criteria exist for assessing the habitat integrity of ...Read more
Author:Popp, A; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Blaum, N; Jeltsch, FDate:Nov 2009In this study, the authors present a stochastic landscape modeling approach that has the power to transfer and integrate existing information on vegetation dynamics and hydrological processes from the small scale to the landscape scale. To ...Read more