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 ...
In recent years, there have been tremendous advances in information technology, robotics, communication technology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, resulting in the merging of physical, digital, and biological ...
Land degradation has been a global agenda. It has been affecting both developed and
developing nations (including Ethiopia). The overall objective of the study was to assess
the impact of landscape restoration (including ...
Water is a vital component for human survival but unsustainable patterns of water consumption are still evident internationally. In South Africa, water conservation has traditionally been limited to the responsibility of ...
E-waste is a world-wide, interregional, and domestic problem. E-waste management is a challenging task not only due to its speedily increasing volume but more outstandingly because of its hazardous nature. This study ...
Pronival ramparts are debris ridges formed at the downslope margins of perennial or semi-permanent
snowbeds beneath bedrock cliffs. These landforms, also previously known as protalus ramparts, are located
in periglacial ...
Round Island is a small (208 ha) islet of volcanic origin located 22.5 km north east of mainland Mauritius and has been classified as a nature reserve since 1957. Two sites were chosen for the installation of environmental ...