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Assessment of soil erosion in the Mfolozi catchment, Kwazulu Natal implications for land reform.
(1996)The Mfolozi, the second largest catchment in KwaZulu Natal, is already severely degraded over substantial areas. Its mean annual sediment load is extremely high and deposits on its floodplain have caused very serious ... -
Assessment of structural attributes of even-aged Eucalyptus grandis forest plantations using small-footprint discrete return lidar data.
(2009)Assessment of forest structural attributes has major implications in the management of forestry by providing information of ecological and economic importance. The traditional methods of assessment involve collecting data ... -
An assessment of the Girinka (one cow per poor family) program and poverty alleviation in Rwanda : a case study of Bugesera District.
(2013)Girinka “one cow per poor family” program has been implemented in Rwanda since 2006 for poverty and child malnutrition reduction. Every poor family receives one dairy cow and the program encourages zero-grazing to combat ... -
An assessment of the viability and sustainability of the use of humanure for household agricultural purposes : a case study in Cottonlands, eThekwini Municipality.
(2014)Many South Africans face problems relating to poor sanitation and inadequate nutrition. This is especially prevalent in the peri-urban and rural areas of the country. Whilst urban areas are provided with water borne sewage, ... -
Automotive trace metal concentrations on the South African national road (N3) and its impact on the environment.
(2018)The environment is currently experiencing the negative effects of globalisation and unsustainable development with environmentally harmful activities increasing at an alarming rate in South Africa and other developing ... -
Butterworth : a growth pole.
(1991)In recent times much attention has b een focussed on the spatial development of countries, especially in those countries of the world referred to as the Third World. Many factors have given rise to this interest. It has ... -
Carbon sink reforestation projects : a community perspective from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2012)Climate change has exacerbated environmental degradation processes, causing an imbalance in the natural concentrations in atmospheric greenhouse gases. This has resulted in a myriad of socio–economic effects which have ... -
Child survival, protection and development programme in Mara and Singida Regions, Tanzania: a focus on the processes of implementation.
(1998)What can we learn from the programmes which have attempted to improve the conditions of an estimated 190 million children around the world who are chronically undernourished? It is evident from the literature that there ... -
City-to-city learning in urban strategic planning in Southern Africa: unearthing an underground knowledge economy.
(2016)Despite international evidence strongly suggesting the need for urban strategic planning, most African governments still continue to under-invest in the establishment of bottom-up strategic planning frameworks. The seriousness ... -
Clean Development Mechanism : is it a tool to promote the use of renewable energy in South Africa?
(2013)Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and environmental pollution have all become buzzwords of our time. The awareness in recent years of the degradation of the planet by prioritising economic gain has allowed ... -
Commercial forest species discrimination and mapping using image texture computed from WorldView-2 pan sharpened imagery in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2021)Forest species discrimination is vital for precise and dependable information, essential for commercial forest management and monitoring. Recently, the adoption of remote sensing approaches has become an important source ... -
Communal space construction : the rise and fall of Clairwood and district.
(1994)This study documents the emergence of an Indian cultural enclave located on the periphery of the colonial town of Durban, its subsequent rise to a flourishing communal space by the mid twentieth century, and its decline ... -
Communities' perceptions and assessment of biodiversity conservation strategies : the case of protected areas in Kenya.
(2010)Protected areas in Kenya constitute 7% of the total land area with over 75% of wildlife in the country being found on private or communal land. Wi th one of the highest population growth rates in the world and facing a ... -
Community perceptions on a prospective game reserve: a case study of Loziba Wilderness, northern KwaZulu-Natal.
(2021)South Africa has seen a notable trend on privately owned land in the context of land reform, in which farms are transformed to community-owned game reserves, particularly in rural areas. This transformation is associated ... -
A comparative study of rural community and ecotourism park managers' perceptions of the 2010 FIFA World Cup : case study of Izibukwana and Makhowe communities as well as Tala and Ezulwini private parks, respectively.
(2010)The staging of sport mega-events such as the Football or FIFA World Cup has drawn much attention from different countries, as a result they bid to host such events because of the social, economic and political positive ... -
A comparative study of soil erosion in the Umfolozi Game Reserve and adjacent Kwazulu area from 1937 to 1983.
(1990)This thesis describes a comparative study of actual and potential soil erosion in the Wilderness area of the Umfolozi Game Reserve, and a biophysiographically comparable adjacent traditional KwaZulu landuse area. Estimates ... -
Conceptualisations and experiences of the presence of informal settlements into formal residential areas : a study of the residents in formal housing of the Clare Estate area, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2010)Cities across the globe are characterised by inequality. Within South African cities the marginalised population has unequal access to certain resources and opportunities, one such resource that the research is centred ... -
Crumbling housing and failed promises : a critical study of corruption in low cost housing in the Phoenix area.
(2015)Since the ending of apartheid the new South African government inherited a country with a critical shortage of low income housing. While great lengths have been made to address the housing challenge, a major obstacle to ... -
Cultural ecosystem services, perceptions and participatory mapping: a case study of Buffellsdraai and Iqadi communities in eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2018)As the demand for Ecosystem Services (ES) continues to grow, the assessment of ES has become important for conservation management. However when compared to other ES, Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) have been rarely ...