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MEADOWS, MICHAEL E. "CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHERS? PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY IN SOUTH AFRICA." South African Geographical Journal 89, no. 2 (2007): 128–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2007.9713882.

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Eckert, Jerry B. "Physical quality of life indices for South Africa∗." Development Southern Africa 3, no. 1 (1986): 6–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03768358608439204.

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Visser, Gustav, and Dene Kisting. "Studentification in Stellenbosch, South Africa." Urbani izziv Supplement, no. 30 (2019): 158–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2019-30-supplement-011.

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Globally, studentification has emerged as a prominent urban process, fast becoming entrenched in geographical discourse. Since the early 1990s, in both developed and developing world countries, an expansion in student enrolment has outstripped the ability of higher education institutions to provide adequate accommodation. These trends have been noted in South Africa too. The extent and impact of studentification on the urban geography of those places in which it has taken root is still poorly understood in both South Africa and the global South at large. This paper investigates studentificatio

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Rowlands, Ian H. "South Africa and Global Climate Change." Journal of Modern African Studies 34, no. 1 (1996): 163–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00055257.

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Globalclimate change is now firmly on the international agenda. Although the heady days of the 1992 Earth Summit have been replaced by an atmosphere of greater caution, events in 1995 have nevertheless revealed that climate change is set to be one of the key international issues during the coming decades. Indeed, it is inevitable that global climate change – as both a physical phenomenon and a social institution – will have a tremendous impact on every nation's future.

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Mamera, Matthew, and Johan J. van Tol. "Application of Hydropedological Information to Conceptualize Pollution Migration From Dry Sanitation Systems in the Ntabelanga Catchment Area, South Africa." Air, Soil and Water Research 11 (January 2018): 117862211879548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178622118795485.

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The hydrological response of catchments is determined by the combined hydropedological response of hillslopes. In the Ntabelanga area, 56% of the households use pit latrines and untreated drinking groundwater supplies. Soil morphological properties and their spatial distribution were used to conceptualize hillslope hydropedological behaviour to determine the fate of Escherichia coli and faecal coliform from 4 pit latrines. Four hillslopes below the pit latrines (MT1, MT2, MT3, and MT4) occur above first-order tributaries to the Tsitsa River, South Africa, were studied. The studied sites are ad

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Kruger, Tinus, and Karina Landman. "Crime and the Physical Environment in South Africa: Contextualizing International Crime Prevention Experiences." Built Environment 34, no. 1 (2008): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.34.1.75.

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Bernard, Penelope S. "“Living Water” in Nguni Healing Traditions, South Africa." Worldviews 17, no. 2 (2013): 138–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-01702005.

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This paper explores the ideas of “living water” held by Nguni-speaking diviner-healers in South Africa. It considers their beliefs in snake/mermaid water divinities and their claims of being called by them underwater, either physically or in a dream, to obtain knowledge and gifts of healing. Seen as cosmic generators of life, fertility and water/rain, these divinities are believed to reside in certain sites of “living water,” which, while characterized by certain physical features, are dependent on correct human ritual relations to maintain their vitality.

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Gericke, Ockert J. "GIS Applications to Investigate the Linkage between Geomorphological Catchment Characteristics and Response Time: A Case Study in Four Climatological Regions, South Africa." Water 11, no. 5 (2019): 1072. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11051072.

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In flood hydrology, geomorphological catchment characteristics serve as fundamental input to inform decisions related to design flood estimation and regionalization. Typically, site-specific geomorphological catchment characteristics are used for regionalization, while flood statistics are used to test the homogeneity of the identified regions. This paper presents the application and comparison of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) modelling tools for the estimation of catchment characteristics to provide an enhanced understanding of the linkage between geomorphological catchment character

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Musavengane, Regis, Henry Bikwibili Tantoh, and Danny Simatele. "A Comparative Analysis of Collaborative Environmental Management of Natural Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study of Cameroon and South Africa." Journal of Asian and African Studies 54, no. 4 (2019): 512–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909618825276.

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In Africa, rural communities thrive on social capital and tend to have a number of commonalities that force them to share natural, physical and social resources. It has been a trend in sub-Saharan Africa to have either formal or informal collaborative management agreements to manage common pool resources (CPRs) to accommodate different actors and interests. This paper draws lessons from past and contemporary collaborative schemes in Cameroon and South Africa to enhance the practice and governance processes of natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa in order to promote sustainable development.

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Moja, Teboho, and Chika Trevor Sehoole. "Pedagogical Issues and Gender in Cyberspace Education: Distance Education in South Africa." African and Asian Studies 2, no. 4 (2003): 475–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920903773004022.

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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the pedagogical and gender issues embedded in distance and cyberspace education. Pedagogical issues to be addressed relate to access, teaching and learning, quality, and research within distance and cyberspace education. The paper will further analyse the gender dimension in cyberspace education in South Africa. Our paper limits itself to cyberspace teaching and learning as a process that takes place using the Internet or the World Wide Web, or uses some digital information and communications technology (ICT). We understand ICT to be a broad conc

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Mhlongo, Sphiwe Emmanuel, Francis Amponsah-Dacosta, and Armstrong Kadyamatimba. "Appraisal of Strategies for Dealing with the Physical Hazards of Abandoned Surface Mine Excavations: A Case Study of Frankie and Nyala Mines in South Africa." Minerals 10, no. 2 (2020): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min10020145.

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In order to improve the safety status and the quality of the landscape affected by surface mining, it is important that practical strategies for dealing with the excavations are identified. The aim of the work presented in this paper was to carry out an appraisal of the strategies for addressing the physical hazards of abandoned surface mine excavations in two mines in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The method used involved carrying out field characterization of the current state and uses of the excavations, as well as their physical hazards of the surface mine excavations in the study ar

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Oorthuis, Raül, Jean Vaunat, Marcel Hürlimann, et al. "Slope Orientation and Vegetation Effects on Soil Thermo-Hydraulic Behavior. An Experimental Study." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (2020): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010014.

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The stability and erosion of natural and man-made slopes is influenced by soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions and the thermo-hydro-mechanical slope conditions. Understanding such interactions at the source of slope mass-wasting is important to develop land-use planning strategy and to promote environmentally adapted mitigation strategies, such as the use of vegetation to stabilize slopes and control erosion. Monitoring is essential for calibrating and validating models and for better comprehending the physical mechanisms of soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions. We approached this comple

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Kiage, Lawrence M. "Perspectives on the assumed causes of land degradation in the rangelands of Sub-Saharan Africa." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 37, no. 5 (2013): 664–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133313492543.

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Soil erosion and land degradation are serious problems in tropical Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, where they are widely recognized as more serious problems than in non-tropical areas. Sub-Saharan Africa experiences deleterious levels of soil erosion, largely due to the interaction between harsh climates of high erosivity, fragile soils of high erodibility, steep slopes, and poor natural resource management. The fundamental challenge is to separate purely background-level soil erosion due to biophysical, geomorphic, topographic, and climatic conditions from what is caused by humans. Thi

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van Stuijvenberg, Martha E. "Using the School Feeding System as a Vehicle for Micronutrient Fortification: Experience from South Africa." Food and Nutrition Bulletin 26, no. 2_suppl2 (2005): S213—S219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15648265050262s212.

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School-age children are often a neglected group in terms of micronutrient interventions because they are not reached by the intervention strategies aimed at preschool children or pregnant women. School feeding, however, offers an excellent opportunity for targeted intervention in this age group, especially with regard to fortification. This paper first gives a brief overview of the school-feeding program in South Africa, and second reports on a number of trials conducted in South African schools by the South Africa Medical Research Council that examined the feasibility of using school feeding

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Maselesele, Dembe, John B. O. Ogola, and Romeo N. Murovhi. "Macadamia Husk Compost Improved Physical and Chemical Properties of a Sandy Loam Soil." Sustainability 13, no. 13 (2021): 6997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13136997.

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Poor soil fertility caused mainly by low and declining soil organic carbon is one of the major constraints limiting crop productivity in tropical and subtropical regions of South Africa. We evaluated the effect of macadamia husk compost (MHC) on selected chemical and physical properties of a sandy loam soil in NE South Africa in two successive seasons. The treatments, laid out in randomised, complete block design and replicated four times, were: (i) zero control, (ii) inorganic fertilizer (100:60:60 NPK Kg ha−1), (iii) MHC at 15 t ha−1, and (iv) MHC at 30 t ha−1. Soil bulk density; water holdi

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Sucheran, Reshma. "Preliminary Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Hotel Sector in South Africa." African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure 10(1), no. 10(1) (2021): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720-90.

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Emerging infectious diseases and pandemics place a substantial burden on global economies and public health. The hospitality industry and global health pandemics are fundamentally linked, and the sector is highly vulnerable to pandemics. The COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus) has triggered an unprecedented crisis in the hospitality industry globally, and in particular, the hotel sector. As governments have introduced extraordinary measures to contain the virus, such as travel restrictions and physical distancing, which have brought the hotel sector to a standstill. This paper examines the prelimi

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Mbatha, C. N. "Physical, Political and Local Practice Factors as Barriers to Agricultural Development: A Case of the Kat River Valley, South Africa." Open Geography Journal 4, no. 1 (2011): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874923201104010091.

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Porter, Gina, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, et al. "Connecting with home, keeping in touch: physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa." Africa 88, no. 2 (2018): 404–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972017000973.

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AbstractThere is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. While the physical and virtual mobility practices of such stretched families are often complex and contingent, maintaining contact with distantly located close kin is frequently of crucial importance for the maintenance of emotional (and possibly material) well-being, both for those who have left home and for those who remain. This article explores the ways in which thes

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Mamut, Marica. "Geoekološko vrjednovanje reljefa otoka Pašmana." Geoadria 15, no. 2 (2017): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.121.

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The geoecological evaluation of the relief of Pašman Island from the standpoint of its touristic evaluation was conducted on the previously conducted geomorphologic analysis of the island relief. The evaluation was conducted for the needs of specific types of touristic activities (swimming, sunbathing, walking, "škraping") in the sense of its physical favourability, aesthetic value and accessibility.The method of relative relief evaluation was applied, whereby relief was evaluated within four morphographic categories: slopes, peaks, valley bottoms and beds and the coast. According to this meth

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Gomo, Modreck, and Danie Vermeulen. "A transboundary aquifer of potential concern in Southern Africa." Water Policy 19, no. 6 (2017): 1160–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2017.049.

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Abstract Tuli Karoo transboundary aquifer (TBA) is shared between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The TBA provides groundwater resources for various economic activities. Irrespective of the value offered by this TBA, there is very little research that has been conducted to improve understanding of the physical system and potential cross-border impacts that can result from exploitation of the aquifer. In the wake of this limited research, this paper uses theoretical background and conceptual understanding to highlight some of the

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Guyer, Jane I. "DESCRIBING URBAN ‘NO MAN'S LAND’ IN AFRICA." Africa 81, no. 3 (2011): 474–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972011000258.

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Cities as elusive, invisible, yet to come. ‘[T]he city is no-man's land’ (Grace Khunou, p. 240 in Mbembe and Nuttall). ‘Lagos is no man's land’ (heard in Lagos by the present writer, August 2010). A picture of a strangely empty and disrupted man-made landscape (William Kentridge, pp. 349–350 in Mbembe and Nuttall), balanced by a dense but also personless urban scene (by the same author, pp. 35–6 in the same text). … The slippage between conventional social scientific terms of runaway urbanization, the teeming human vitality of African cities, and the elusiveness of the titles, sayings and imag

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Nqweniso, Siphesihle, Cheryl Walter, Rosa du Randt, et al. "Prevention of Overweight and Hypertension through Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Extracurricular Sport Participation among South African Schoolchildren." Sustainability 12, no. 16 (2020): 6581. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12166581.

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Hypertension and overweight are growing public health concerns in school-aged children. We examined whether cardiorespiratory fitness and sport participation contribute to the prevention of hypertension and overweight. We conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial with 853 children aged 8–13 years in eight primary schools in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Cardiorespiratory fitness, sport participation, body mass index, and blood pressure were assessed at baseline and after a physical activity intervention, which took place at two time-points (July–September 2015 and February–April 2016) fo

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Cleveland, David A. "Migration in West Africa: a savanna village prespective." Africa 61, no. 2 (1991): 222–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160616.

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AbstractLocal migration in response to population pressure is part of the history of northeast Ghana. First by physical coercion, then by economic coercion, colonialism drastically changed the pattern of migration to one of long-distance movement from north-east Ghana and the northern savannas in general to southern Ghana. Migration in turn affected social organisation, agriculture and population dynamics n i savanna communities. While colonial policy was not always consistent, one dominant and ultimately effective strategy seems evident: to break up locally self-sufficient economies and socie

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Joseph, Stacey-Leigh, and Mirjam van Donk. "Building ‘Positive’ Spaces: Sustainable Human Settlements in The Context of Hiv/Aids." Open House International 33, no. 4 (2008): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2008-b0004.

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A key development in South Africa's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been the recognition that there are a number of external factors in the socio-economic and physical environment in which people live that are central to the spread of the epidemic. A growing body of evidence suggests that poverty, inequality, inadequate shelter, overcrowding and other symptoms of underdevelopment are fundamental drivers in undermining people's ability to practice and negotiate safe sex, thereby enhancing vulnerability to HIV infection. Similarly, these factors affect the ability of individuals, household

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Erasmus, Judith. "‘Homelessness & Hope’ - Johannesburg's Ponte City." Open House International 34, no. 3 (2009): 74–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2009-b0009.

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This paper focuses on Ponte City, a high rise residential tower within the inner city of Johannesburg, South Africa - the highest of its kind in the southern hemisphere. This equally visually and socially notorious cylindrical building has since its erection in the 1970's become an icon and simulacrum of Johannesburg city life. It is located on the border of the suburb of Hillbrow, a restless transcendental suburb, known for its well mixed population of locals and migrant non South Africans, especially from other African countries. The inner city suburbs of Hillbrow and surround is furthermore

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Bvuma, Stella, and Carl Marnewick. "Sustainable Livelihoods of Township Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises towards Growth and Development." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (2020): 3149. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083149.

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In South Africa, small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) have been recognized as the critical driving force to alleviate some economic challenges that the country faces. The challenges, such as the alleviation of poverty and the unemployment rate, can be addressed by policies that encourage SMME developments and sustainability. The historical background of SMMEs in South Africa has left them operating in various locations, such as cities and townships. There is a growing concern of the lack of information and communications technology (ICT) adoption by SMMEs, in particular those operating

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Pérez-Escamilla, Rafael. "Innovative Healthy Lifestyles School-Based Public–Private Partnerships Designed to Curb the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Globally: Lessons Learned From the Mondelēz International Foundation." Food and Nutrition Bulletin 39, no. 1_suppl (2018): S3—S21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0379572118767690.

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Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have been recognized as central for addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. However, very few real-world examples have been published documenting the workings of effective PPPs. The objective of this article is to identify the factors that enabled the successful implementation of school-based PPPs focusing mainly on nutrition and physical activity in 7 countries located in Asia (China and India), Africa (South Africa), Europe (Germany, United Kingdom), and Latin America (Brazil and Mexico). We triaged qualitative data from (1) proceedings from 2 school-bas

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Schulz, O., and C. de Jong. "Snowmelt and sublimation: field experiments and modelling in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 8, no. 6 (2004): 1076–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-8-1076-2004.

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Abstract. Snow in the High Atlas Mountains is a major source for freshwater renewal and for water availability in the semi-arid lowlands of south-eastern Morocco. Snowfall- and snow-ablation monitoring and modelling is important for estimating potential water delivery from the mountain water towers to the forelands. This study is part of GLOWA-IMPETUS, an integrated management project dealing with scarce water resources in West Africa. The Ameskar study area is located to the south of the High Atlas Mountains, in their rain shadow. As a part of the M’Goun river basin within the upper Drâa vall

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Opara, Ikechukwu Kingsley, Olaniyi Amos Fawole, Candice Kelly, and Umezuruike Linus Opara. "Quantification of On-Farm Pomegranate Fruit Postharvest Losses and Waste, and Implications on Sustainability Indicators: South African Case Study." Sustainability 13, no. 9 (2021): 5168. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13095168.

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While there is a growing body of scientific knowledge on improved techniques and procedures for the production and handling of quality pomegranate fruit to meet market demand, little is known about the magnitude of losses that occur at the farm and post-farmgate. This study revealed the amount of pomegranate fruit lost on the farm and the causes of loss and estimated the impacts of losses. The direct measurement method, which involved sorting and counting of individual fruit, was used since physical identification of the causes of fruit losses on individual fruit was necessary for data collect

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Oldfield, Sophie, Netsai Sarah Mathsaka, Elaine Salo, and Ann Schlyter. "In bodies and homes: Gendering citizenship in Southern African cities." Urbani izziv Supplement, no. 30 (2019): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2019-30-supplement-003.

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How do the everyday contexts in which ordinary women struggle to access and maintain a place on the peripheries of the city shape experiences of citizenship? This paper explores this question in George, a periurban Lusaka neighbourhood in Zambia and through experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women’s negotiation of a place on the peri-urban edges of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. In the logics of citizen-subjects, the experiences of these groups of women should be poles apart, the first with rights imbued in citizenship, the second migrants without. Here instead, we demonstrate the ways i

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Drennan, Gillian R., Susan Benvenuti, and Mary Evans. "Addressing the gap between school and university in South Africa: exposing grade 11 learners to the integrated and applied nature of science and commerce using geoscience examples." Terrae Didatica 14, no. 3 (2018): 339–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/td.v14i3.8653535.

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Geoscience Education is not included in the School curriculum in South Africa as a stand-alone subject area. Some concepts are embedded in other subject areas such as Plate Tectonic Theory in Geography and Evolution in Life Sciences. Consequently, most students who do register for a BSc degree at South African Universities do not initially intend to study Geology. Minimum entry requirements for different disciplines in the Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) mean that most of the Geology I registrations are by students not qualifying for Mathematical or Physical Sc

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Itzkin, Adela, Mary C. Scholes, Jai Kumar Clifford-Holmes, Kate Rowntree, Bennie van der Waal, and Kaera Coetzer. "A Social-Ecological Systems Understanding of Drivers of Degradation in the Tsitsa River Catchment to Inform Sustainable Land Management." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (2021): 516. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020516.

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Understanding the interactions of the social and biophysical drivers of land degradation is crucial for developing adaptive management actions for future sustainability. A research-praxis project, the ‘Tsitsa Project’ (TP), applies a social-ecological systems (SES) approach where researchers, natural resource managers, and residents collaborate to support sustainable livelihoods and improved natural resource management for the degraded Tsitsa River Catchment (TRC) in South Africa. A system diagramming approach was coupled with findings from interviews, workshops, literature, and two conceptual

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Itzkin, Adela, Mary C. Scholes, Jai Kumar Clifford-Holmes, Kate Rowntree, Bennie van der Waal, and Kaera Coetzer. "A Social-Ecological Systems Understanding of Drivers of Degradation in the Tsitsa River Catchment to Inform Sustainable Land Management." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (2021): 516. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020516.

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Understanding the interactions of the social and biophysical drivers of land degradation is crucial for developing adaptive management actions for future sustainability. A research-praxis project, the ‘Tsitsa Project’ (TP), applies a social-ecological systems (SES) approach where researchers, natural resource managers, and residents collaborate to support sustainable livelihoods and improved natural resource management for the degraded Tsitsa River Catchment (TRC) in South Africa. A system diagramming approach was coupled with findings from interviews, workshops, literature, and two conceptual

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Opara, Ikechukwu Kingsley, Olaniyi Amos Fawole, and Umezuruike Linus Opara. "Postharvest Losses of Pomegranate Fruit at the Packhouse and Implications for Sustainability Indicators." Sustainability 13, no. 9 (2021): 5187. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13095187.

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Pomegranate fruit, like other types of fresh horticultural produce, are susceptible to high incidence preharvest and postharvest losses and waste. Several studies have been done to improve the production and handling of pomegranate fruit to meet market standards, but little has been done in loss quantification, especially in the early stage of the value chain such as the packhouse. Therefore, the aim of this study was to quantify the magnitude of pomegranate fruit losses at the packhouse, identify the causes, and estimate the impacts of losses. The study was conducted on a case study packhouse

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Rangecroft, S., S. Birkinshaw, M. Rohse, et al. "Hydrological modelling as a tool for interdisciplinary workshops on future drought." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 42, no. 2 (2018): 237–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133318766802.

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Transformative interdisciplinary methods and tools are required to address crucial water-related challenges facing societies in the current era of the Anthropocene. In a community-based study in the Limpopo basin of South Africa, physical and social science methods were brought together to run interdisciplinary workshops aimed at enhancing preparedness for possible future drought. To generate storylines for the workshops, relevant scenarios were modelled using a catchment-scale hydrological model, SHETRAN. Set up using freely available data, local knowledge, and narrative-based group interview

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Ayetigbo, Oluwatoyin, Sajid Latif, Adebayo Abass, and Joachim Müller. "Comparing Characteristics of Root, Flour and Starch of Biofortified Yellow-Flesh and White-Flesh Cassava Variants, and Sustainability Considerations: A Review." Sustainability 10, no. 9 (2018): 3089. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10093089.

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Cassava is a significant food security and industrial crop, contributing as food, feed and industrial biomass in Africa, Asia and South America. Breeding efforts have led to the development of cassava variants having desirable traits such as increased root, flour, and starch yield, reduced toxicity, reduced pest/disease susceptibility and improved nutrient contents. Prominent among those breeding efforts is the development of colored-flesh cassava variants, especially biofortified yellow-fleshed ones, with increased pro-vitamin A carotenoids, compared to the white-flesh variants. The concept o

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Rahman, Md Naimur. "Urban Expansion Analysis and Land Use Changes in Rangpur City Corporation Area, Bangladesh, using Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) Techniques." Geosfera Indonesia 4, no. 3 (2019): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/geosi.v4i3.13921.

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This study aim to attempt mapping out the Land Use or Land Cover (LULC) status of Regional Project Coordination Committee (RPCC) between 2009-2019 with a view of detecting the land consumption rate and the changes that has taken place using RS and GIS techniques; serving as a precursor to the further study on urban induced variations or change in weather pattern of the cityn Rangpur City Corporation(RCC) is the main administrative functional area for both of Rangpur City and Rangpur division and experiencing a rapid changes in the field of urban sprawl, cultural and physical landscape,city gro

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Diko, Makia L., Shallati C. Banyini, and Batobeleng F. Monareng. "Landslide susceptibility on selected slopes in Dzanani, Limpopo Province, South Africa." Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 6, no. 1 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v6i1.101.

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Inherent soil properties and anthropogenic activities on slope faces are considered potential recipes for landslide occurrence. The objectives of this study were to physically characterise unconsolidated soils and identify on-going anthropogenic activities on selected slopes in Dzanani in order to appraise their role as contributory factors in enhancing landslide susceptibility. Methods employed for this study comprised mapping, description of soil profile, identification of anthropogenic activities, as well as experimental determination of soil colour, particle size distribution and Atterberg

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Daniel Otim, Jeff Smithers, Aidan Senzanje, and Rianto van Antwerpen. "Verification of runoff volume, peak discharge and sediment yield simulated using the ACRU model for bare fallow and sugarcane fields." Water SA 46, no. 2 April (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.17159//wsa/2020.v46.i2.8233.

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The Agricultural Catchments Research Unit (ACRU) model is a daily time step physical-conceptual agrohydrological model with various applications, design hydrology being one of them. Model verification is a measure of model performance and streamflow, soil water content and sediment yield simulated by the ACRU model have been extensively verified against observed data in southern Africa and internationally. The primary objective of this study was to verify simulated runoff volume, peak discharge and sediment yield against observed data from small catchments, under both bare fallow conditions an

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Daniel Otim, Jeff Smithers, Aidan Senzanje, and Rianto van Antwerpen. "Verification of runoff volume, peak discharge and sediment yield simulated using the ACRU model for bare fallow and sugarcane fields." Water SA 46, no. 2 April (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/wsa/2020.v46.i2.8233.

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The Agricultural Catchments Research Unit (ACRU) model is a daily time step physical-conceptual agrohydrological model with various applications, design hydrology being one of them. Model verification is a measure of model performance and streamflow, soil water content and sediment yield simulated by the ACRU model have been extensively verified against observed data in southern Africa and internationally. The primary objective of this study was to verify simulated runoff volume, peak discharge and sediment yield against observed data from small catchments, under both bare fallow conditions an

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Venter, Lauren, and Clorinda Panebianco. "High school learners’ perceptions of value as motivation to choose music as an elective in Gauteng, South Africa." International Journal of Music Education, September 20, 2021, 025576142110431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02557614211043161.

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A growing concern is the low number of learners who choose to participate in music during their high school years. Extending previous research by McPherson and O’Neill, this study explored South African high school learners’ motivation and value perceptions to continue with music as an elective in grade 10. A further objective was to understand how value perceptions vary according to grade, gender, and intention to continue with music. 180 music leaners in grades 9 and 10 completed questionnaires modeled on those by McPherson and O’Neill, based on the expectancy-value framework. Results show t

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Iyer, Leevina M. "South African Social Sciences teachers’ views on the integration of History and Geography in the General Education and Training phase." Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa 14, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/td.v14i2.482.

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With the cessation of apartheid in 1994, social transformation was one of the key objectives of the democratic South Africa. In light of this, the South African government believed that mass education would develop a democratised mindset amongst the country’s citizens. History and Geography were identified as two subjects that could promote the desired societal transformation and were thus combined into one learning area: Social Sciences. The concept underpinning this learning area was integration. The notion of integration takes different forms in the literature, and these are explored here.

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King, Brian, and Margaret Winchester. "Constructing landscapes." Medicine Anthropology Theory 4, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.1.359.

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The concept of therapeutic landscapes has been adopted from geography by anthropologists with a similar commitment to addressing the intersections between the construction of place and the multifaceted and symbolic dimensions of health. Drawing from health geography and medical anthropology, we take up the challenge from these fields to approach health broadly in order to understand how health decision making is connected to intersecting political, economic, social, and cultural processes that shape what options are available to people. This article presents findings from an ongoing study of t

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Grenfell, MC, SE Grenfell, and D. Mazvimavi. "Morphodynamic modelling of dryland non-perennial riverscapes, with implications for environmental water allocation." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, March 10, 2021, 030913332199663. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133321996639.

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Reach-scale river restoration or environmental water allocation (EWA) exercises typically address the magnitude and temporal dynamics (frequency, duration, timing, rate of change) of flows required to sustain desirable ecological conditions along a river. The role of geomorphology in this process is to broaden the gaze beyond flows to consider larger and longer-term interactions between valley lithological structure, and the feed and fate of flow-sediment mixtures. This paper proposes the integration of numerical morphodynamic modelling in evaluations of environmental water requirements for no

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Cawood, Judy, and Surona Visagie. "Environmental factors influencing participation of stroke survivors in a Western Cape setting." African Journal of Disability 4, no. 1 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v4i1.198.

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Background: Environmental factors compound or diminish the effects of impairments; therefore they have a direct influence on participation of stroke survivors.Objectives: To determine environmental barriers and facilitators to participation experienced by a group of stroke survivors in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Methods: A descriptive, mixed methods study was conducted in 2011. Quantitative data was collected with the International Classification for Functioning, Disability and Health core set for stroke (environmental factors), from 53 stroke survivors, sampled through proport

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"Corrigendum." cultural geographies 25, no. 1 (2018): 263–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474017736172.

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Creighton Connolly (2017) Landscape political ecologies of urban ‘swiftlet farming’ in George Town, Malaysia. cultural geographies 24(3): 421–439. DOI: 10.1177/1474474016684128. The journal would like to make the following correction: Endnotes 45-69 should be revised as follows: 45. Geografia, George Town Land Use and Population Survey. 46. Following Malaysian independence in 1957, the new Malay government renamed all streets in Malaysia’s colonial enclaves such as George Town. However, many of the old names are still commonly used by residents, hence my reference to both. 47. This attitude on

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Nielsen, Hanne E. F., Chloe Lucas, and Elizabeth Leane. "Rethinking Tasmania’s Regionality from an Antarctic Perspective: Flipping the Map." M/C Journal 22, no. 3 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1528.

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IntroductionTasmania hangs from the map of Australia like a drop in freefall from the substance of the mainland. Often the whole state is mislaid from Australian maps and logos (Reddit). Tasmania has, at least since federation, been considered peripheral—a region seen as isolated, a ‘problem’ economically, politically, and culturally. However, Tasmania not only cleaves to the ‘north island’ of Australia but is also subject to the gravitational pull of an even greater land mass—Antarctica. In this article, we upturn the political conventions of map-making that place both Antarctica and Tasmania

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Livingstone, Randall M. "Let’s Leave the Bias to the Mainstream Media: A Wikipedia Community Fighting for Information Neutrality." M/C Journal 13, no. 6 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.315.

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Although I'm a rich white guy, I'm also a feminist anti-racism activist who fights for the rights of the poor and oppressed. (Carl Kenner)Systemic bias is a scourge to the pillar of neutrality. (Cerejota)Count me in. Let's leave the bias to the mainstream media. (Orcar967)Because this is so important. (CuttingEdge)These are a handful of comments posted by online editors who have banded together in a virtual coalition to combat Western bias on the world’s largest digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia. This collective action by Wikipedians both acknowledges the inherent inequalities of a user-controll

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Campays, Philippe, and Vioula Said. "Re-Imagine." M/C Journal 20, no. 4 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1250.

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To Remember‘The central problem of today’s global interactions is the tension between cultural homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation.’ (Appadurai 49)While this statement has been made more than twenty years, it remains more relevant than ever. The current age is one of widespread global migrations and dis-placement. The phenomenon of globalisation is the first and major factor for this newly created shift of ground, of transmigration as defined by its etymological meaning. However, a growing number of migrations also result from social or political oppression and war as we witness the c

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Mesquita, Afrânio Rubens de. "Prefácio." Revista Brasileira de Geofísica 31, no. 5 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.22564/rbgf.v31i5.392.

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PREFACEThe articles of this supplement resulted from the 5 th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society held in São Paulo city, Brazil, at the Convention Center of the Transamérica Hotel, from 28 th September to 2 nd of October 1997. The participants of the Round Table Discussions on “Mean Sea Level Changes Along the Brazilian Coast” were Dr. Denizar Blitzkow, Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, (POLI-USP), Prof. Dr. Waldenir Veronese Furtado, Institute of Oceanography (IO-USP), Dr. Joseph Harari (IO-USP), Dr. Roberto Teixeira from the Brazilian Institute of Ge

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