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Sefela, Glenwin. "The law and policy governing inter-basin transfers of freshwater resources in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6619.

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Magister Legum - LLM<br>Water scarcity is a worldwide threat. Fresh water resources are vital to human existence and survival. The challenge faced relates to the way these water resources are being distributed and managed. As an answer to this challenge, humans responded with what is commonly known as water transfers. A water transfer refers to the importation of water where water supply is low. Water transfers are, however, not a new concept as it dates back to the ancient Mesopotamians. Today, due to the global population having drastically increased, water transfers, or inter-basin tr
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Msukwa, Chimwemwe Kanyamana. "Strategic interests in transboundary river cooperation in Southern Africa – the case of the Okavango." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5239.

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Thesis (MA (Political Science. International Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>Bibliography<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Water is life. Its availability and quality directly relates to what is possible in agriculture as well as human health. In Southern Africa, water issues have become an important political agenda as a result of the droughts that the region has been experiencing. The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), in its water protocol advises its member states to set up river basin organisations to manage transboundary rivers in Southern Africa. The aim is to encoura
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Mearns, Kevin Frank. "The sustainability of community-based ecotourism in southern Africa." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2010. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-sustainability-of-communitybased-ecotourism-in-southern-africa(8a403ded-d0b4-4a20-aacb-3dbc5a641aa0).html.

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The global trend towards sustainability is influencing humankind on a daily basis. One of the aspects of human life that is significantly influenced by this trend is decision making with regard to travel and holidays. The investigation was initiated in an attempt to monitor the sustainability of community-based ecotourism in southern Africa and to set a baseline for future comparison. A comprehensive inventory of 331 community-based tourism ventures across southern Africa was compiled as part of the study. A spatial selection was undertaken to refine the selection of ventures which could be sa
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Browne, Nana Ama Kum. "Model evaluation for seasonal forecasting over southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10208.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This study contributes to a broader effort of institutions toward improving seasonal forecasts over southern Africa. The primary objective is to understand where global models show shortcomings in their simulations, and how this impacts on their seasonal forecast skill. It is proposed that the skill of a model in simulating natural climate variability is an appropriate metric for a model's potential skill in seasonal forecasting. Thus the study investigates the performance of two global models in simulating the regional processes in relation to the proce
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Van, der Merwe Joseph Petrus Albertus. "Spatial monitoring of natural resource condition in Southern Africa." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1657.

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Quagraine, Kwesi Akumenyi. "Dynamics of co-behaviour of climate processes over Southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Science, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33916.

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Large-scale climate processes such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Antarctic Oscillation (AAO), and many others, play varying roles in regional climate variability across the world. While the role of singular processes have been explored in many studies, the combined influence of multiple large-scale processes has received far less attention. Key to this is the challenge of developing methodologies to support the analysis of multiple processes interacting in potentially non-linear ways (co-behaviour) in a particular region. This study details the development of such a methodology and d
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Gebrehiwot, Tigisit Dessu. "Intellectual property law food and agricultural law and food security : the case of Southern Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65649.

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This thesis is written with the purpose of answering three basic questions: Is the current intellectual property (IP) law capable of facilitating and supporting the goal of ending hunger and increasing food security? Will the current international food law promote fair and equitable food production and supply practices to benefit all who need it and will the existing international food law including IP, create incentives for farming practices that are ecologically sound as well as culturally and socially appropriate? The Southern African communities, in particular the San communities, will be
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Gumede, Sibusisiwe Marie-Louise. "Environmental education policy support in Southern Africa: a case story of SADC REEP." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003397.

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The study takes place in the context of the Southern African Development Community’s Regional Environmental Education Programme (SADC REEP). The SADC REEP is a programme of the Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Directorate of the SADC Secretariat. The programme is implemented through four components namely policy, networking, training and learning support materials development. The bulk of the policy budget is in the form of seed funding to support policy initiatives in the member states. The intention of this study is to illuminate factors that influence the deployment and use of seed fu
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Hayes, James. "A model for social impact assessment in Southern Africa." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2002. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11272006-163208.

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Jack, Christopher David. "A Lagrangian moisture source attribution model and analysis of southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4862.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Lagrangian moisture source attribution model is developed in order to explore the regional moisture source dynamics of southern Africa. In particular, the model was developed in order to explore the role of the regional land surface as a source of moisture for regional precipitation. This work was prompted by previous studies suggesting that the land surface may play an important role in the regional climate system and particularly in the regional hydrological cycle. Existing moisture transport and source methodologies have a number
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Carter, Suzanne. "Approaches to quantifying and reducing uncertainty in GCMs over Southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4833.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p.127-131).<br>Global Circulation Models (GCMs) are the primary tool for simulating future climate changes. These models by necessity make use of various assumptions and simplifications due to computational constraints, and in so doing introduce biases and systematic error. Along with other sources of uncertainty regarding our understanding of the climate system and given the quasi-chaotic nature of the climate, climate projections differ between models whose climate simulation skill is poorly quantified. A new methodology is presented
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Coop, Lisa Jane. "The diurnal cycle of cloud cover over southern and central Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4838.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-119).<br>The current understanding of the temporal and spatial distribution of clouds over southern and central Africa is poor and the regional processes governing cloud occurrence is only weakly understood. This study seeks to improve the current understanding of cloud diurnal variability over this region by providing a base-line diurnal climatology of lowlevel, mid-level and high-level cloud cover. Diurnal variations of cloudiness are examined using ten years of cloud data from latest version of the International Satellite
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Lupele, Justin Kalaba. "Networking : enabling professional development and institutionalisation of environmental education courses in Southern Africa /." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/737/.

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Shava, Soul. "Indigenous knowledges: a genealogy of representations and applications in developing contexts of environmental education and development in southern Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005920.

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This study was developed around concerns about how indigenous knowledges have been represented and applied in environment and development education. The first phase of the study is a genealogical analysis after Michel Foucault. This probes representations and applications of plant-based indigenous knowledge in selected anthropological, botanical and environmental education texts in southern Africa. The emerging insights were deepened using a Social (Critical) Realism vantage point after Margaret Archer to shed light on agential issues in environmental education and development contexts. Here h
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Hughes, Rebekah. "A critical review of South Africa' future carbon tax regime." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25301.

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The world is currently facing a global climate crisis largely associated with growing greenhouse gas emissions, of which carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions are a significant component. As the fourteenth largest emitter of CO₂ globally and the highest per capita CO₂ emitter in Africa, South Africa has a responsibility to implement legal and fiscal instruments to reduce its emissions. One instrument receiving growing global attention to reduce CO₂ emissions is carbon tax; a tax imposed directly on the emission of carbon or the use of products which generate carbon emissions. South Africa is followin
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Midgley, Danjelle. "Biodiversity offsets: towards an effective legal framework in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15166.

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South Africa is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world. This biodiversity is under threat from economic, social and climate change pressures. One mechanism that could be added to South Africa's conservation tools, is that of the biodiversity offset where certain activities are designed to compensate for unavoidable harm to biodiversity resulting from development. The concept and theory of offsetting is controversial however, and not all commentators are in favour of encouraging a formal biodiversity offsetting regime in South Africa. This dissertation will explore the conc
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Van, Rensburg Eureta Janse. "Environmental education and research in southern Africa: a landscape of shifting priorities." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003395.

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What has come to be labelled as 'the environment crisis' has roots in the structures and orientations of modern societies. True to our modernist ways we call on, or offer, education and research, experts and science, to address our socio-ecological concerns. This study set out to identify research priorities in environmental education from within the institutional setting of a university and within the context of environmental and political change in southern Africa and epistemological shifts in educational research traditions. The emergent research design allowed for a progressive clarificati
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Mdoka, Marshall Lison. "The role of soil moisture on summer climate simulations over southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20344.

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This study aims to increase our perspective of the responses of Southern African climate to soil moisture forcings by drying or moistening the land surface using a regional climate model version 3, RegCM3. The sensitivity and response capabilities to soil moisture perturbations of the model are investigated. This includes identification of regions that may be influenced differently by antecedent soil moisture conditions as well as understand the implications of soil moisture conditions on frequency and intensity of rainfall. Exploratory analyses of soil moisture retention and comparison of cli
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Main, Jeremy P. L. "Seasonality of circulation in southern Africa using the Kohonen self-organising map." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13889.

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Bibliography: leaves 77-84.<br>A technique employing the classification capabilities of the Kohonen self-organising map (SOM) is introduced into the body of computer-based techniques available to synoptic climatology. The SOM is one of many types of artificial neural networks (ANN) and is capable of unsupervised learning or non-linear classification. Components of the SOM are introduced and an application is then illustrated using observed daily sea level pressure (SLP) from the Australian Southern Hemisphere data set. To put the technique in the context of global climate change studies, a fur
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Mandikonza, Caleb. "Exploring change-oriented learning, competencies and agency in a regional teacher professional development programme's change projects." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4410.

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This aim of this study was to explore the mediatory role of the Rhodes University (RU) / Southern African Development Community (SADC) International Certificate in Environmental Education course in developing capacity for reflexive mainstreaming of environment and sustainability education in teacher education in southern Africa. This course was a change-oriented intervention to support capacity and agency for mainstreaming environmental education across many sectors of education. The discourse of the course included environmental education and education for sustainable development and for this
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Khumalo, Jan Lekopane. "Overview of the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/497.

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Von, Maltitz Graham Paul. "Biofuel, land-use tradeoffs and livelihoods in Southern Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021005.

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The rapid expansion of biofuel projects in southern Africa creates an opportune issue against which to examine land-use tradeoffs within the areas of customary land tenure. For this an ecosystems services approach is used. Jatropha curcas (L), a perennial oilseed plant which has been the key focus of most of the region’s biofuel expansion to date is used as the focus biofuel crop for which case study data were obtained from Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and South Africa. Despite the initial enthusiasm for jatropha, most projects have proven less successful than hoped, and many have collapsed. A f
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Gore, Michelle Jacqueline. "Understanding the impacts of ENSO patterns on droughts over southern Africa using SPEEDY." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31879.

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The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major driver of southern Africa droughts, but the nonlinearity of ENSO variation inhibits accurate prediction of droughts. While studies have identified multiple patterns of ENSO, most drought predictions over southern Africa are still based on only two ENSO patterns. This study examines the relationship between southern African droughts and eight ENSO patterns: four El Niño SST conditions (EN1 - EN4) and four La Niña SST conditions (LN1 - LN4). In this study we analyzed multi-forcing ensemble simulations from SPEEDY (a general circulation model fro
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Pinto, Izidine S. de Sousa. "Future changes in extreme rainfall events and circulation patterns over southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16781.

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Includes bibliographical references<br>Changes in precipitation extremes are projected by many global climate models as a response to greenhouse gas increases, and such changes will have significant environmental and social impacts. These impacts are a function of exposure and vulnerability. Hence there is critical need to understand the nature of weather and climate extremes. Results from an ensemble of regional climate models from the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) project are used to investigate projected changes in extreme precipitation characteristics over southern A
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Hubbard, Nicola N. "Holocene settlement strategies in the Western Cape, South Africa : an environmental approach." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.254006.

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Green, Stewart Christopher. "The regulation of sand mining in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4475.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Sand, an important input to the construction industry, is extensively mined from the environment leading to depletion of the resource as well as damage to riparian habitat and the alteration of river beds and banks. Sand mining in South Africa is controlled by a complex regulatory system that can be distilled into three main themes: mineral regulation; environmental regulation; and land use planning regulation. In this thesis, it is hypothesised that sand mining is subject to all three regulatory themes equally. In practice, however
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Weldon, Damian John. "Is South Africa on the road to achieving sustainable agriculture? : An environmental law perspective." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4497.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The appearance and development of the concept of sustainable agriculture in international legal discourse has taken place in a period of human history characterised by elevated understanding of the complex relationship between humanity and its surrounding environment.
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Mpinga, Shamila. "Advancing the effective implementation of the one environmental system for mining through cooperative environmental governance." Master's thesis, Faculty of Law, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32290.

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In 2014, the One Environmental System for mining came into effect. This legislative framework was introduced to streamline the environmental regulation of mining activities by consolidating such regulation in the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA). The most significant aspect of the regulatory framework, for purposes of this research, is the allocation of powers to the authorities responsible for implementing the One Environmental System. The authorities tasked with implementing the One Environmental System are the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), the Department of
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Hachigonta, Sepo Promise. "Assessing maize water requirements in the context of climate change uncertainties over southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10604.

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Climate change studies are subject to high uncertainties partly resulting from data reliability. This study investigates the challenges of using statistical downscaled climate data to examine the likely impacts of climate change on maize growth in southern Africa in the context of these uncertainties.
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Lewis, Lauren Lyn. "Urban growth in Southern Africa : comparing 30 years of decadal imagery to census data." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11609.

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The total urban area of each study site was calculated for each time slice and the results were represented as maps depicting urban expansion. Graphs were also created depicting the total urban area vs. total population for each time slice (1970s, 1990s and 2000s).
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O'Donoghue, Rob. "Detached harmonies : a study in/on developing social processes of environmental education in eastern southern Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007726.

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Long-term social processes are explored to examine the shaping of environmental education in eastern southern Africa. The study opens with early Nguni social figurations when 'to conserve was to hunt.' It then examines colonial conservation on the frontiers of imperial expansion and developing struggles for and against wildlife preservation. These processes shaped an inversion of earlier harmonies as declining wildlife was protected in island sanctuaries of natural wilderness and 'to conserve was not to hunt.' Inside protected areas, conservation management struggles shaped new harmonies of in
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Herbst, Deidre Linda. "Wetlands: An ecosystem service South Africa can afford to protect: a critical evaluation of the current legal regime and mechanisms to facilitate the use of payment for ecosystem services to the conservation of wetlands in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19747.

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Wetlands cover a small portion of the world's surface a rea but they provide the most significant contribution to people for survival and sustainable development. In South Africa wetlands are considered the most threatened of all the country's ecosystems. South Africa's legal framework governing wetlands recognises the importance of natural infrastructure and its contribution to ecosystem services. Notwithstanding this recognition, the deteriorating status of South Africa's wetlands is evidence that the legal framework, dominated by a fragmented command and control approach, has not adequately
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Baldanzi, Simone. "Inter-individual variability and phenotypic plasticity : the effect of the environment on the biogeography, population structure, ecophysiology and reproduction of the sandhoppers Talorchestia capensis and Africorchestia quadrispinosa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011447.

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Climatic envelope models focus on the climatic variables affecting species or species assemblages, and are important tools to investigate the effect of climate change on their geographical ranges. These models have largely been proposed in order to make successful predictions on species‘ persistence, determining which variables are likely to induce range expansion, contraction, or shifting. More recent models, including the ability and the cost for individuals to respond promptly to an environmental stimulus, have revealed that species may express phenotypic plasticity able to induce adaptatio
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Tarr, Peter. "The potential role of environmental assessment in promoting sustainable development in Namibia." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1999. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU117436.

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The use of Environmental Assessment (EA) as a planning tool has been promoted in Namibia in recent years and a broad-based, consultative process to develop an umbrella Environmental Management Act, is underway. Most EAs conducted since 1990 were for prospecting and mining, and many were post-facto assessments that led to the development of Environmental Management Plans. This dissertation examines the links between sustainable development and EA, both from a theoretical perspective and on the basis of case study analysis. The objective is to assess the potential role of EA in promoting sustain
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Drew, Gillian. "Modelling vegetation dynamics and their feedbacks over Southern Africa in response to climate change forcing." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4846.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The importance of vegetation feedbacks to the atmosphere has been highlighted in many recent research studies. The influence of climate on vegetation has long been established, and climate has regularly been used to predict vegetation distribution. However, the influence of vegetation on climate is a relatively new research area. The need to understand vegetation-atmosphere interactions is growing in light of the increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and the change in climate associated with these increases. These linkages are analysed ove
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Zinyengere, Nkulumo. "Assessing climate change impacts and agronomic adaptation strategies for dryland crop production in southern Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20846.

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Dryland farmers in southern Africa operate under harsh conditions; infertile soils, erratic rainfall regimes, sub-optimal input levels etc. Crop yields have generally been low, negatively affecting food security and livelihoods. Climate change is anticipated to aggravate these already existing challenges. In the recent past, a wide range of studies has sought to understand how climate change will affect crop production. However, there are only few detailed localised studies that focus on understanding climate change impacts and adaptation under heterogeneous conditions that dryland farmers in
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Quick, Lynne. "Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the southern Cape, South Africa palynological evidence from three coastal wetlands." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4798.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Despite significant advances in palaeoenvironmental research in southern Africa, the late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of the region remains incomplete as palaeoclimatic proxy records are temporally and spatially discontinuous. The southern Cape is a key focus area within this region as it encompasses the Fynbos Biome, a global biodiversity hotspot, as well as rare Afrotemperate forest patches and is therefore of great botanical importance. As this area includes the transition from southern Africa’s winter rainfall zone to
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McCarthy, Justine. "Seeking access to environmental information in South Africa : a critical review of the relevant legal framework and jurisprudence." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20779.

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The deteriorating state of South Africa's natural environment has been linked to the exponential growth in anthropogenic pressures associated with urban life. In the wake of dire water shortages and the onslaught of climate change, reports have shown increased environmental degradation and evidence of decreasing water, soil and air quality. The state of the environment has therefore raised concerns as to the legal relationship governing communication, engagement and accountability between citizens, government authorities, and the private sector. Following the promulgation of the Constitution o
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Lawal, Kamoru Abiodun. "Understanding the variability and predictability of seasonal climates over West and Southern Africa using climate models." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16556.

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Includes bibliographical references<br>A good understanding of seasonal climate and the limit to which it can be predicted is crucial in addressing various socio-economic challenges in Africa. However, how to improve the capability of the dynamical models of the climate system in reproducing the regional seasonal climate variability and in replicating the role of various atmospheric circulation anomalies on the regional variability remains a major challenge. Thus far, understanding of seasonal climate over these regions, as well as the ability of climate models to predict them, has focused on
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Diala, Jane Chinonyerem. "The distortion of the meaning of bride wealth: significance for the evolution of living customary law in southern Nigeria." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12911.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Nigeria’s Constitution does not provide for the interaction of the received English law, statutory law, and customary law. Bride wealth, an important aspect of customary law in southeast Nigeria, symbolises the bride’s worth to her family, as well as a bond between the bride and groom’s families. The changes introduced by colonial rule distorted its meaning to the extent that people disobeyed legislation enacted to curb excessive bride wealth. This disobedience is traceable to socio-economic and cultural factors founded on people’s survival needs. This d
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Day, Kirsten Dea. "Integrated environmental management : where is South Africa headed given recent developments relating to NEMA and the Infrastructure Development Act?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15165.

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Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) was formulated during the 1980s by the Council for the Environment in response to a dual need in South Africa to effectively manage the country's natural resource base whilst stimulating economic growth and development. The IEM principles were translated into the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) in 1998, and IEM also became the title of Chapter 5, the purpose of which is to promote the application of appropriate environmental management tools to ensure the integrated environmental management of activities. Over the years a single tool, name
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Dlamini, Cliff Sibusiso. "The EU FLEGT scheme: a critical analysis of its potential for promoting effective and equitable forest governance in Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19745.

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This dissertation critically considers and assesses the potential of the EU FLEGT Scheme to provide an effective and equitable legal regime for curbing illegal logging and promoting sustainable forest management (SFM) and good forest governance (GFG) in African Partner Countries. It considers a broad range of issues starting with the state of Africa's forests and the international regulatory framework for SFM. A critical review of recent studies led to a theoretical framework comprising a set of specific legal issues/themes (substantive issues) central to SFM and GFG. These were accompanied by
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Joscelyne, Kimberly. "The nature, scope and purpose of spatial planning in South Africa : towards a more coherent legal framework under SPLUMA." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19785.

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Planning law has a significant role to play in facilitating and governing development within a country. In South Africa, a shift has occurred from the utilisation of planning laws to regulating development, to facilitating it. A key area of this legal discipline is spatial planning, which determines the ideal utilisation and allocation of an area for certain land uses. The history of spatial planning in South Africa, and more specifically in the Western Cape, is an interesting one as the planning system that exists is fragmented and fraught with confusion. This has resulted in issues, confusio
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Majinge, Charles Riziki. "The United Nations, the African Union and the rule of law in Southern Sudan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/845/.

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The argument of this thesis is that measures taken by international bodies to establish the rule of law in postconflict situations are undertaken in the mistaken belief that they will automatically enhance conditions for the rule of law to flourish. In fact, examination of the situation in Southern Sudan demonstrates that there is a wide disconnection between the measures pursued and the outcome of the process. This study will therefore inquire into the different meanings attributed to the concept of the rule of law in order to establish what the concept signifies in the context of statebuildi
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Morton, Nicola. "Parks that cross the borderline : transnational co-operation in Southern Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51868.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this era of globalisation, the world is becoming more economically, politically and ecologically interdependent, that is, there is a growing mutual vulnerability between actors. The conditions of growing interdependence produce specific challenging circumstances for the achievement of particular goals, -includinq that of sustainable development. The Southern African context holds further obstacles to such development, which include poverty, inequality, a history of racial conflict and colonialism, and a regional economy
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Ntumy, Emmanuel K. B. "Labour dispute resolution in southern Africa : a study of emerging trends and realities in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20356.

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This study is about labour dispute resolution in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. The study involves an extensive examination of the political philosophy, methods, structures and rules of engagement comprehensively described as 'emerging' trends. It concerns labour relations in developing African countries and is necessarily located along the continuum of the socio-legal and historical context of each country. The study asserts that there is an indisputable connection between the past colonial state and the post-colonial state. It contends that the post-colonial elite openly assimilated the r
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Busieka, Wycliffe M. "A configuration of trade regimes in eastern and southern Africa region: implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15434.

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This work has examined the implication the proliferation of identical economic groupings portends for the east and southern Africa region. The thrust of the study here has been to interface and interrogate the incidence of the configuration of integration regimes in the east and southern Africa region. The work has investigated the question as to whether the proliferation of trade regimes has prepared a fertile ground for greater and deeper integration in the region. The thesis has also interrogated the proposition that such proliferation is the very antithesis of the desired goal to promote t
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Delport, Erik. "Creating an effective and equitable legal carbon taxing regime for South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27945.

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Human accelerated climate change presents a worldwide threat. It is a problem that requires international as well as local solutions. Human accelerated climate change is induced by the release of so called greenhouse gasses (GHG's) as a result of human activity, most notably by converting fossil fuels into energy. GHG's include Carbon dioxide (CO₂), Methane (CH₄), Nitrous oxide (N2O), Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and Sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆). The most notable of these gasses is Carbon Dioxide (CO₂), this gas is released into the atmosphere in vast amounts and is primar
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Weyer, Dylan James. "Assessing linkages between local ecological knowledge, HIV/AIDS and the commercialisation of natural resources across Southern Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007180.

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That natural resources (NRs) are important to those experiencing adversity, and, especially, vulnerability associated with HIV/AIDS, is well documented, particularly with respect to food and energy security. What is unclear is where HIV/AIDS ranks in terms of its significance in comparison to other household shocks, the role local ecological knowledge may (LEK) play in households' response to shock, a propos the types of coping strategies that are employed. Consequently, this research aims to bridge the knowledge gap between HIV/AIDS and the degree to which it is contributing to the expansion
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Naik, Myra. "Modeling the potential impacts of vegetation change on the future climate of Southern Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15587.

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Many studies have projected a future warming over Southern Africa without including the influence of on - going vegetation changes in the region. This study investigates how the vegetation changes may alter the projected warming. For the study, two regional climate models (RegCM and WRF) were applied to simulate the present day (1970 - 2005) and the future (2030 - 2065; IPCC RCP 4.5) climate, with and without vegetation change. The study considers two scenarios of vegetation change: the first accounts for the potential impacts of natural bush encroachment and commercial forestation in the east
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