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Adapting environmental management systems for African ports

Author: Arabi, Sumaiya ; Taljaard, Susan ; Weerts, Steven P Date: Mar 2022 Globally sustainable environmental practices in ports have been linked to socio-economic benefits. While African ports are increasingly acknowledging environmental issues and starting to address these in environmental policy, many are still ... Read more
Advancing ecosystem accounting in estuaries: Swartkops Estuary case study

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB ; Riddin, T Date: Mar 2023 Rapid degradation of ecosystems and loss of ecosystem services have sparked interest in developing approaches to report and integrate such change with socio-economic information systems, such as the System of National Accounts. Here we describe ... Read more
Advancing mouth management practices in the Groot Brak Estuary, South Africa

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB ; Taljaard, Susan ; Huizinga, Piet ; Lamberth, S Date: Feb 2020 The early 1990s in South Africa were characterised by a strongly hierarchical and technocratic regime where planning and development decisions regarding the environment were made at national government level with little or no public consultation ... Read more
An anomaly in pH data in South Africa’s national water quality monitoring database – implications for future use

Author: Ramjukadh, Carla-Louise ; Silberbauer, M ; Taljaard, Susan Date: Oct 2018 The South African national water quality database (Water Management System) houses data records from several environmental monitoring programmes, including the National Chemical Monitoring Programme (NCMP). The NCMP comprises an extensive ... Read more
Assessing and planning future estuarine resource use: A scenario-based regional-scale freshwater allocation approach

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB ; Allan, DG ; Taljaard, Susan ; Weerts, Steven P ; Louw, D ; Talanda, C ; Van Rooyen, P Date: Mar 2019 Rapid urbanisation and industrial growth in South Africa increases the need for proactive allocation of freshwater resources on a regional scale. A nine-step method is described that sets long-term targets for water resource condition and ... Read more
Assessment of the conservation priority status of South African estuaries for use in management and water allocation

Author: Turpie, JK ; Adams, JB ; Joubert, A ; Harrison, TD ; Colloty, BM ; Maree, RC ; Whitfield, AK ; Wooldridge, TH ; Lamberth, SJ ; Taljaard, Susan ; Van Niekerk, Lara Date: Apr 2002 The future health and productivity of South Africa's approximately 250 estuaries is dependent on two main factors; management and freshwater inputs. Both management and water allocation decisions involve trade-offs between conservation and ... Read more
Case studies of modified South African estuaries and implications for ecological restoration in these systems

Author: Weerts, Steven P ; MacKay, F ; Taljaard, Susan ; Van Niekerk, Lara Date: Sep 2019 Presentation on the case studies of modified South African estuaries and implications for ecological restoration in these systems. Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction

Author: Slinger, J ; Taljaard, Susan ; D'Hont, F Date: Jan 2020 This book captures the learning from a cross-comparison of seven international inlet or estuary mouth management situations. The conceptual framing is provided by a focus on systems knowledge and its development and use within coastal management. ... Read more
Coastal management – working towards the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030)

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Adams, J Date: Sep 2021 The UN declared 2021-2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science and identified research and technology priority areas to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. We reviewed the current status of scientific support for coastal management in ... Read more
Comparative assessment of two agriculturally-influenced estuaries

Author: Lemley, DA ; Adams, JB ; Taljaard, Susan Date: Apr 2017 This study compared the spatio-temporal dynamics in two agriculturally-influenced South African estuaries - Gamtoos and Sundays - to investigate how contrasting hydrological alterations influence physical, chemical and biological responses. ... Read more
Complex Coastal Systems: Transdisciplinary Learning on International Case Studies

Author: Slinger, J ; Taljaard, Susan ; D'Hont, F Date: Feb 2020 The transdisciplinary research synthesised in this book represents an endeavour by a group of coastal researchers and policy analysts to learn from a cross-comparison of seven international case studies on tidal inlet or estuary mouth management ... Read more
The contribution of the WRC to estuarine research in support of effective policy development and resource

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, J ; Taljaard, Susan ; Lamberth, S Date: Jan 2021 The Water Research Commission (WRC) has been a staunch and enduring funder of estuarine research in South Africa, with support ranging from identifying research gaps, to the development of dedicated research programs, student advancement, ... Read more
Country-wide assessment of estuary health: An approach for integrating pressures and ecosystem response in a data limited environment

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Adams, JB ; Bate, GC ; Forbes, AT ; Forbes, NT ; Huizinga, P ; Lamberth, SJ ; MacKay, CF ; Petersen, C ; Taljaard, Susan ; Weerts, Steven P ; Whitfield, AK ; Wooldridge, TH Date: Sep 2013 Population and development pressures increase the need for proactive strategic management on a regional or country-wide scale - reactively protecting ecosystems on an estuary-by-estuary basis against multiple pressures is ‘resource hungry’ ... Read more
Criteria for evaluating the design of implementation models for integrated coastal management

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Slinger, SH ; Van Der Merwe, JH Date: Sep 2011 Despite the emphasis placed on the contextual nature of integrated coastal management (ICM) implementation in the literature, many uniformities are encountered in ICM implementation worldwide. In this article the tangled threads of ICM practice ... Read more
Disaggregation and assessment of estuarine pressures at the country-level to better inform management and resource protection – the South African experience

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Taljaard, Susan ; Lamberth, SJ ; Adams, JB ; Weerts, Steven P ; MacKay, CF Date: May 2022 Globally, the ability of estuaries to sustain functionality and productivity is deteriorating rapidly under ever-increasing anthropogenic pressures. We present a systematic approach to identify, characterise and rank global pressures affecting ... Read more
Discharge of water containing waste emanating from land to the marine environment: a water quality management perspective

Author: Oelofse, Suzanna HH ; Viljoen, P ; Taljaard, Susan ; Botes, WAM Date: 2004 The National Water Act, 1998 (Act 36 of 1998) mandates the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry to manage all water containing waste (wastewater), which emanates from land-based sources and which directly impact on the marine environment. ... Read more
Dual adaptive cycles in implementing integrated coastal management

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Slinger, JH ; Van der Merwe, J Date: Nov 2013 Despite the place-based nature of integrated coastal management (ICM) implementation and the importance of considering country-specific knowledge, a number of uniformities in ICM implementation have been distinguished. In this paper, the ... Read more
An environmental flow determination method for integrating multiple-scale ecohydrological and complex ecosystem processes in estuaries

Author: Van Niekerk, Lara ; Taljaard, Susan ; Adams, JB ; Lamberth, SJ ; Huizinga, P ; Turpie, JK ; Wooldridge, TH Date: Mar 2019 This paper presents an environmental flow methodology that was developed to accommodate shallow, highly dynamic micro-tidal estuaries found along the wave-dominated coast of South Arica. This method differs to most other approaches that ... Read more
Experimental ecosystem accounting for South Africa’s estuaries: Extent and Condition Accounts (Physical)

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Van Niekerk, Lara Date: Jul 2019 Overview of South Africa’s Estuaries Read more
Extension of a qualitative model on nutrient cycling and transformation to include microtidal estuaries on wave-dominated coasts: Southern hemisphere perspective

Author: Taljaard, Susan ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Joubert, WR Date: Nov 2009 Estuaries are dynamic transition zones acting as filters and transformers of nutrients passing from catchments to the sea. The authors propose an extension to an existing southern hemisphere model on nutrient dynamics in estuaries to include ... Read more

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