Spatial thinking allows a person to use space to structure problems, model the real world, and identify and communicate possible solutions to challenges. Research proved a strong correlation between students studying ...
Since the start of planned park developments, parks have been considered the spatial and social ‘fixes’ to the cultural, political, economic, and environmental challenges of cities. This is even more pronounced in dynamic ...
Food insecurity has long been a problem in South Africa, with 6.5 million people (11% of the population) suffering from hunger in 2019. South Africa should, due to rising demands for food in urban areas, notably in Gauteng, ...
In an area experiencing semi-arid conditions, such as the Mooi River catchment, it is
crucial to ascertain the evapotranspiration rate accurately. Evaluating evapotranspiration is
beneficial in areas where the water ...
Slopes in surface mines are usually designed from the geotechnical data. The important geotechnical parameters include geology, rock strength and groundwater. In designing the most optimum slopes, each geotechnical parameter ...
Several South African cities are faced with challenges of rapid urbanisation, overpopulation, spatial inequalities, and poor service delivery. Local municipalities have failed to adequately address the challenges manifested ...
The purpose of this study is to assess the challenges, opportunities, and risks of small scale communal forest projects across four communities in South Africa, and through
this, to make a contribution to the neglected ...
South African project engineers recently pioneered the first agricultural floating solar photovoltaic tech nology systems in the Western Cape wine region. This effort prepared our country for an imminent large scale diffusion ...
This study examined the status and sustainability of food security. It investigated the socio-economic, demographic, institutional and environmental determinants of the un/sustainability of rural household food security ...
This dissertation presents Swakopmund, Namibia, as a case study and asks how changes in the landscape brought about by urban development and modernisation influence the sense of place experienced by the resident population.
A ...
In Namibian schools, structured and organised outdoor learning opportunities are not accessible to everyone or equally distributed. All Namibian learners do, however, have access to lived experiences outside of school and ...
The bulk of urban studies in sub-Saharan Africa has, hitherto, focused on the impacts of
structural adjustment programmes on urban productivity and citizen welfare. However,
little is known about the dynamics (Mbiba & ...
The study of light curves of W UMa (W Ursa Majoris type) eclipsing contact binary stars can provide
insight into their physical dimensions as well as their evolution. By making use of different data
sets, including from ...
The highly accelerated rates of growth that the cities and towns of the Tigray National
Regional State witnessed in the recent past has been followed by a growing problem of
urban and peri-urban environmental degradation ...
Land degradation is currently a major concern in South Africa. However, awareness of
the problem and attitude towards it has changed little over the past century. Soil erosion leading
to land degradation is continually ...
This research focused on evaluating and comparing the perceptions, water-use
behaviour, water conservation awareness and overall water stewardship of participants
residing in Hammanskraal and Atteridgeville who have ...
In an increasingly changing world, the attributes of human and physical
environments are critical in assessing human quality of life (HQoL). The research
sources consulted for this thesis point to specific relationships ...
The famous R.E.M. song laments ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it, I had some time alone, I feel fine…’. Many South Africans would agree that COVID-19 signals the end of the world (or business) as we know it, and ...
Land degradation is a great threat to the Beshlo Catchment in Blue Nile Basisn, not merely as an
environmental issue, but also a social and economic problem. In Gedalas Watershed (one of the micro
catchments of Beshelo), ...
Inadequate attention has been paid to the complexity of rural livelihoods and the
dimensions of poverty. Although progress has been achieved in poverty reduction in
many countries over the years, statistics indicate that ...