Author:Mutanga, Shingirirai S; Lunga, W; Mutanga, Shingirirai SDate:Jul 2021The increasing frequency of disasters induced by anthropogenic and natural hazards has epitomised the complex nature of dealing with uncertainty. Cyclone Idai-induced floods in Southern Africa had a series of foreseeable and unforeseeable ...Read more
Author:Milazi, Dominic; Bischof-Niemz, TobiasDate:Dec 2015Copyright: 2015 Alive2Green. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, kindly consult the publisher's website.Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Jan 2011The built environment is the stage upon which we live out our daily lives: the built environment comprises urban design, land use, and the transportation system, and the patterns of human activity within this physical environment. Unfortunately, ...Read more
Author:Ntombela, Cebile; Celliers, LouisDate:2015The growth of urban areas that form coastal cities, especially in the WIO, places an increasing demand on natural coastal extractive and non-extractive resources. The use and conversion of coastal land and catchments is considered a permanent ...Read more
Author:Nemutanzhela, ME; Roets, Y; Gardiner, N; Lalloo, RajeshDate:2014Global shortages in seafood resources have driven the growth of aquaculture as an economic activity, predominantly in developing countries. As a consequence of space and resource constraints, traditional aquaculture has been intensified into ...Read more
Author:Paige-Green, PDate:Jan 2009This chapter reviews the relevant sustainability background and identifies areas that should be considered in relation to conserving non-renewable natural resources. Techniques that can contribute to reducing the use of non-renewable resources ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Oct 2015As noted in the 2nd UN World Water Report, “key challenges of contemporary water management can only be understood within the very broad context of the world’s socio-economic systems (UNESCO 2006:3). The report notes that changing demographics ...Read more
Author:Spocter, MDate:2011The Small Towns Development Initiative is a collaboration between South Africa’s Department of Cooperative Governance and the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut and is supported by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit’s (GIZ) Strengthening ...Read more
Author:Rathogwa, Mashudu; Mokonyama, Mathetha TDate:Dec 2022Integrated Public Transport Networks (IPTNs) can contribute positively towards spatial transformation. The rate at which this is feasible is contingent upon the nature of decisions made by planning agencies, households, and businesses. The ...Read more
Author:Twinomurinzi, H; Phahlamohlaka, Letlibe JDate:Nov 2009The authors are investigating whether Web-based Group Support System (GSS) tools can support and enhance procedural fairness in administrative decision making in South Africa. They report here on work that emanates from a masters dissertation ...Read more
Author:Tesfaye, T; Sithole, Bishop BDate:2018Mango seed, a waste material that is disposed of after consumption of mangos, was studied for its potential use as a resource for extraction of starch. The study revealed that mango seeds are a good source of starch: physicochemical ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, T; Zulu, N; Maharajh, Dheepak M; Lalloo, RajeshDate:Sep 2013Microalgae represent a bio-diverse resource (Metting, 1996; Pulz and Gross, 2004). The complexity of their chemical composition and range of biochemical products make these organisms exploitable resources for valuable and novel products in ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, CDate:2009The current status of cereal and vegetable protein and its potential use in aquaculture feeds to replace fish meal is described in order to provide an insight into the challenges facing its use. The key drivers for exploiting food waste ...Read more
Author:Shatalov, MY; Joubert, SV; Coetzee, CEDate:Dec 2011As among other seismological observations, it is important to be able to predict the location of the vibrating pattern of an earthquake. In this chapter, the authors take the first tentative steps towards including "Bryan’s effect" in a ...Read more
Author:Pejovic, V; Johnson, DL; Zheleva, M; Belding, EM; Lysko, Albert ADate:2015Internet connectivity is available to merely 39% of the world’s population. Lack of internet access is primarily restricted to developing regions, however, many remote communities in the developed world are currently disconnected as well. The ...Read more
Author:Shibayama, Y; Fanucchi, Stephanie; Mhlanga, MusaDate:2017Enhancers are principal regulators that allow spatiotemporal tissue-specifi c control of gene expression. While mounting evidence suggests that enhancer-derived long noncoding RNAs (long ncRNAs), including enhancer RNAs (eRNAs), are an important ...Read more
Author:Van Huyssteen, G; Sharma Grover, A; Calteaux, Karen VDate:Oct 2012Multilingual emerging markets hold many opportunities for the application of spoken language technologies, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) or test-to-speech (TTS) technologies in interactive voice response (IVR) systems. However, ...Read more