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Adapting the Dyna-CLUE model for simulating land use and land cover change in the Western Cape Province

Author: Tizora, P ; Le Roux, Alize ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Cooper, Antony K Date: Sep 2018 Models 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
Advances in geospatial analysis platforms and tools: Creating space for differentiated policy and investment responses

Author: Maritz, Johan ; Le Roux, Alize ; Van Huyssteen, Elsona ; Coetzee, M ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Goss, H Date: Sep 2010 Over the last 5 years a set of incremental advances within geospatial analysis platforms and tools developed by the CSIR's Planning Support Systems in collaboration with key stakeholders such as The Presidency, enabled a more nuanced regional ... Read more
Analysing risk and vulnerability of South African settlements: Attempts, explorations and reflections

Author: Faling, W ; Van Huyssteen, Elsona ; Le Roux, Alize Date: Oct 2012 This is a presentation paper on the development of multi-criteria indicators for integrated assessment of socio-economic vulnerability at a regional level. An indication is provided of some first steps in interpreting projections for environmental ... Read more
Analysing risk and vulnerability of South African settlements: Attempts, explorations and reflections

Author: Van Huyssteen, Elsona ; Le Roux, Alize ; Van Niekerk, Cornelia W Date: Feb 2013 With the world’s urban population now estimated to be at 52% (United Nations 2012:1), towns and cities are increasingly becoming the stage where disaster risk has to be managed and mitigated. Understanding the risks and vulnerabilities in ... Read more
Are we achieving spatial transformation In South Africa? Can sub-city spatial indicators make a contribution?

Author: Maritz, Johan ; Van Huyssteen, Elsona ; Le Roux, Alize ; Pieterse, Amy ; Ndaba, Dumisani ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Ngidi, Mawande Date: Jun 2016 With the advent of a democratic order in South Africa in 1994 a number of policy frameworks have seen the light. All of these have indicated the need to spatially transform cities and settlements – to break from the pre-1994 apartheid city. ... Read more
Backyard housing in Gauteng: an analysis of spatial dynamics

Author: Shapurjee, Y ; Le Roux, Alize ; Coetzee, M Date: May 2014 This article examines the phenomenon of backyard housing in Gauteng, a prominent driver of urban spatial change in South Africa’s housing market. Backyard housing in South Africa increasingly attracts the attention of policymakers because of ... Read more
Climate change adaptation in the African roads sector: Constraints, opportunities and policy challenges

Author: Maritz, Johan ; Arnold, Kathryn A ; Roux, Michael P ; Le Roux, Alize ; Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA Date: Oct 2019 Roads 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
Climate change adaptation in the African roads sector: Constraints, opportunities and policy challenges [poster]

Author: Maritz, Johan ; Arnold, Kathryn A ; Roux, Michael P ; Le Roux, Alize ; Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA Date: Oct 2019 Roads 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. The United ... Read more c b
Creating a high resolution social vulnerability map in support of national decision makers in South Africa

Author: Le Roux, Alize ; Khuluse, S ; Naude, AJS Date: Aug 2015 The core objective of this study was to create a social vulnerability map based on generally accepted variables that are indicative of drivers of social vulnerability, capturing the unique attributes of South African communities. The paper ... Read more
Creating a set of high-resolution vulnerability indicators to support the disaster management response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Author: Le Roux, Alize ; Cooper, Antony K ; Ludick, Chantel J ; Arnold, Kathryn A ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Jun 2021 This chapter presents the "COVID-19 Vulnerability Dashboard" for South Africa, developed by the CSIR for the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC). It maps vulnerability to COVID-19 for the whole of South Africa, down to the level of the ... Read more
CSIR launches novel online climate risk profiling and adaptation tool: The Green Book

Author: Van Niekerk, Cornelia W ; Le Roux, Alize ; Pieterse, Amy Date: May 2019 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has recently launched a state-of-the-art online climate risk profiling and adaptation tool to assist municipalities across South Africa to assess their risk and vulnerabilities, and ... Read more
Developing spatial indicators using a uniform tessellation to measure urban transformation

Author: Maritz, Johan ; Le Roux, Alize ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Jul 2017 South Africa’s largest cities are subjected to high rates of urbanization with a projected 8 million people migrating to these urban spaces by 2030 [ 1]. Managing and guiding this growth is made more difficult due to the countries ‘apartheid ... 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
Embedment of climatic effects in the road asset management process

Author: Roux, Michael P ; Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA ; Maritz, Johan ; Arnold, Kathryn A ; Le Roux, Alize Date: Oct 2019 The United Nations Environmental Programme describes the African continent as a ‘vulnerability hotspot’ for climate change. During the past four decades African countries have experienced more than 1 500 recorded weather-related disasters. ... Read more
A framework for assessing the risks and impacts of rural access roads to a changing climate

Author: Le Roux, Alize ; Khuluse-Makhanya, Sibusisiwe ; Arnold, Kathryn A ; Engelbrecht, Francois ; Paige-Green, P ; Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA Date: Aug 2019 African communities are worst affected by climate-related natural disasters, in part due to high socio-economic vulnerability, natural resource dependency and low adaptive capacity. Climate resilient road infrastructure in rural areas is ... Read more
A geospatial modelling approach to simulating the impact of future planning policies on the City of Tshwane

Author: Ludick, C ; Le Roux, Alize Date: Sep 2018 Many researchers believe that no matter what path a country takes towards economic development the end result will lead to urbanisation. Rapid urban growth will have a major influence on the social, economic and political dialogue over the ... Read more
Housing / Human Settlements Atlas series: continued support towards more sustainable human settlements

Author: Goss, H ; Busgeeth, K ; Le Roux, Alize Date: 01 Sep 2010 The National Department of Human Settlements has contracted the CSIR Built Environment Unit in the development of the Human Settlements Atlas (previously Housing Atlas) series. The overall aim of the series is to provide a spatial interpretation ... Read more
Human settlements

Author: Van Niekerk, Cornelia W ; Le Roux, Alize Date: Sep 2017 This chapter describes some of the key drivers and processes of vulnerability and risks in human settlements in southern Africa that pose considerable challenges, but also opportunities, for climate change adaptation. Data for the whole of ... Read more
Impact of Gautrain stations on property prices and sales activity in the City of Johannesburg between 2006 and 2015

Author: Arnold, Kathryn A ; Le Roux, Alize ; Hattingh, M Date: Aug 2017 The core objective of this study was to analyse the impact of three Gautrain stations on real estate in the City of Johannesburg, looking specifically at how the Sandton, Rosebank and Midrand stations affected property prices and sales activity ... Read more
Implementing a GIS based methodology for determining highly vulnerable rural access roads to a changing climate in Ethiopia

Author: Arnold, Kathryn A ; Le Roux, Alize ; Makhanya, Sibusisiwe A Date: Sep 2018 Climate-related natural disasters have been steadily increasing in both incidence and intensity across the globe over the last century. This is especially true for Ethiopia given the country’s high and recurrent exposure to extreme droughts ... Read more

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