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Accessibility, affordability, and equity in long-term spatial planning: Perspectives from a developing country

Author: Van Heerden, Quintin ; Karsten, Carike ; Holloway, Jennifer P ; Petzer, Engela ; Burger, Paul AD ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: May 2022 City planners attempt to create more equitable spaces by providing and improving access to benefits of living in cities, especially for previously disadvantaged urban communities. To this extent, evidence-based decision making is required to ... Read more
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
Advanced computing for evaluating facility needs and enhancing sustainable development of public facility investment plan

Author: Green, Chéri A ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Breetzke, K Date: Jun 2009 This paper describes the use of a GIS-based methodology for assessing and planning social facility provision and developing an integrated facility plan which is defensible and impacts meaningfully on resource allocation. A case study of ... 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
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
Assessment of spatial data infrastructures

Author: Cooper, Antony K ; Van Huyssteen, Elsona ; Das, S ; Coetzee, M ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Jul 2014 A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is an evolving concept, essentially consisting of policies, institutional arrangements, Geographical Information Systems (GISs), data bases, networks, Web services and portals to facilitate and coordinate ... Read more
Churches as service providers for victims of sexual and/or violent crimes: A case study from the Paarl Community

Author: Erasmus, JC ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: 2009 The reality and influence of sexual violence and crime is an enormous and already proving to have devastating effects. Some call the disregard for human life a feature of a culture of violence. The Unit for Religion and Development Research ... 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
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
Development and morphological classification of service catchments to support social facility distribution in South Africa

Author: Sogoni, Zukisa ; Ngidi, M ; Green, Chéri A ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; McKelly, David H Date: Sep 2018 South Africa, as a developing country, is faced with a number of challenges, one of which is the provision of social facilities in an equitable and sustainable manner. The problem is compounded by uneven development arising from geographical ... Read more
Do social grants contribute to the jobless population growth in the former South African homelands?

Author: Geyer, H ; Ngidi, MS ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: May 2018 The former homelands and tribal authorities have large populations and high densities with low levels of economic activity and low employment. Population growth in these settlements is in contrast to expectations of population declines, due ... Read more
Equitable availability of social facilities

Author: Green, Chéri A ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Nov 2008 The South African constitution affects every citizen's access to basic services and accordingly it has become a legislative requirement for local authorities to prepare integrated development plans (IDPs), develop performance management systems ... Read more
Evaluating public ambulance service levels by applying a GIS based accessibility analysis approach

Author: Baloyi, Ethel ; Mokgalaka, Hunadi M ; Green, Chéri A ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Aug 2017 Ambulance vehicles are required to respond rapidly to medical emergencies. A number of factors may affect response times, most importantly the location of emergency services stations, the number of ambulance vehicles available at each station, ... Read more
GIS-based accessibility analysis- a mixed method approach to determine public primary health care demand in South Africa

Author: Mokgalaka, H ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Smit, J ; McKelly, D Date: Nov 2013 The spatial realities and dynamics of a changing population with changing health care needs require regular and logical methods to evaluate and assist in primary health care (PHC) planning. Geographical access is an important aspect in the ... Read more
GIS-based evaluation of public facility provision to achieve improved governance and equitable service delivery

Author: Green, Chéri A ; Breetzke, K ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Apr 2009 The use of a GIS-based methodology – Service Access Planning - for assessing service provision and developing facility plans in South Africa to improve governance and equitable service delivery is described. A case study of library investment ... Read more
Integrated social facility location planning for decision support: Accessibility studies provide support to facility location and integration of social service provision

Author: Green, Chéri A ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Ngidi, M Date: Sep 2012 Local and national government authorities are required to provide services to all communities within their jurisdiction in a fair, equitable and sustainable way. The Government Programme of Action compels government departments to develop ... Read more
Land use and land cover change in the Western Cape Province: quantification of changes & understanding of driving factors

Author: Tizora, P ; Le Roux, Alize ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Cooper, Antony K Date: Jul 2016 The 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
Modelling of spatially complex human-ecosystem, rural-urban and rich-poor interactions

Author: Naude, AH ; Le Maitre, David C ; De Jong, T ; Forsyth, G ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Hugo, W Date: Jun 2008 The paper outlines the challenges of modelling and assessing spatially complex human-ecosystem interactions, and the need to simultaneously consider rural-urban and rich-poor interactions. The context for exploring these challenges is South ... Read more
Multidisciplinary approach: mapping potential TB transmission 'hot spots' in high burden communities

Author: Murray, EJ ; Marais, BJ ; Mans, Gerbrand G ; Beyers, N ; Ayles, H ; Godfrey-Faussett, P ; Wallman, S ; Bond, V Date: Jun 2009 Global control of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic remains poor, especially in high burden settings where ongoing transmission sustains the epidemic. In such settings, a significant amount of transmission takes place outside of the household ... Read more
Neighbourhood change and spatial inequalities in Cape Town

Author: Lloyd, CD ; Bhatti, S ; McLennan, D ; Noble, M ; Mans, Gerbrand G Date: Jun 2021 Capturing the dynamics of population change in urban areas necessitates access to geographically fine-grained and temporally consistent data for several time points. Such data are generally not available and they must be created using standard ... Read more

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