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Adaptation and mitigation: synergies and trade-offs

Author: Thambiran, Tirusha ; Naidoo, Sasha Date: Oct 2017 Typically, 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
Air quality

Author: Thambiran, Tirusha ; Padayachi, Yerdashin R Date: Dec 2017 This chapter provides an overview of the latest developments in air quality management and air pollution trends in South Africa. The critical issues of managing air quality in the context of climate change and risk and vulnerability, are also ... Read more
Challenges in blast protection research

Author: Mostert, Frederik J Date: Oct 2019 This paper presents a view of some of the challenges that are presented in investigating protection methodologies against explosive blast effects. In particular, the paper is concerned with experimental efforts that can aid in the understanding ... Read more
Climate risk and vulnerability: A handbook for Southern Africa

Author: Davis, Claire L ; Vincent, K Date: Oct 2017 The handbook (Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa) was conceived and designed with the intent to provide decision-makers with up-to-date information, appropriate for country planning, on the impacts and risks of ... Read more
Coastal flood risk

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Jul 2017 This presentation provided an overview of the degree of risk of coastal flooding in South Africa and demonstrated decision support tools for mitigation and adaptation. Read more
Commentary on the contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Author: Naidoo, Sasha Date: Sep 2022 The Working Group III (WGIII) contribution to the 2022 IPCC Report (AR6) provides an updated global assessment of the climate change mitigation process in terms of developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, and an assessment ... Read more
Dealing with risk

Author: Cull, T ; Vincent, K ; Davis, C ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Nov 2011 This chapter is concerned with how we can respond to climate change in order to reduce its adverse impacts. Following international practice, these responses can broadly be grouped into mitigation (reduction in the causes of climate change) ... Read more
Energy technologies for climate change mitigation - What is appropriate for SA?

Author: Matekenya, W ; Mehlwana, MA Date: May 2006 Climate change is emerging as one of the most challenging problems confronting the humankind in the 21st century. Global warming is almost proportionally interrelated with the pace of industrialization over the past 200 years. This paper ... Read more
Japanese-South African collaboration to mitigate seismic risks in deep gold mines

Author: Ogasawara, H ; Durrheim, RJ ; Nakatani, M ; Yabe, Y ; Milev, A ; Cichowicz, A ; Kawakata, H ; Moriya, H ; JST-JICA SA research group Date: Sep 2009 Mining-induced seismicity poses a hazard to workers in deep South African mines, while natural earthquakes pose a hazard to people living in Japan and other regions of the world that are close to plate boundaries. Researchers introduce a ... Read more
Modelling urban land change processes and patterns for climate change planning in the Durban metropolitan area, South Africa

Author: Jagarnath, M ; Thambiran, Tirusha ; Gebreslasie, M Date: Apr 2019 Urbanization 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
Policy and tecnological constraints to implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation options in agriculture

Author: Smith, P ; Martino, D ; Cai, Z ; Gwary, D ; Janzen, H ; Kumar, P ; McCarl, B ; Ogle, S ; O'Mara, F ; Rice, C ; Scholes, RJ ; Sirotenko, O ; Howden, M ; McAllister, T ; Pan, G ; Romanenkov, V ; Schneider, U ; Towprayoon, S Date: 2007 A recent assessment of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has demonstrated significant potential for mitigation, but suggests that the full mitigation will not be realized due to significant barriers to implementation. In this paper, ... Read more
Regional climate change strategies and initiatives

Author: Archer, Emma RM Date: Oct 2017 The transboundary nature of climate change necessitates regional cooperation and action in the form of comprehensive strategies and policy. Article 5(2) (a) of the Treaty of the Southern African Development Community, 1992 (SADC Treaty) states ... Read more

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