Authors:Lema, Ufoo ChristopherDate:1997Management systems as applied to most of the world's tropical forests are anthropocentric. In view of this, conservation of these ecosystems has been threatened by overuse and pressure of exotic monocultures. Sustainable ... Read more
Authors:Mabote, Molefi ElliotDate:1997This thesis is comprised of sedimentological and geochemical studies of seven 7m core sediments retrieved from the Namaqualand Mudbelt, South Africa. The purpose of this research is to contribute to the evidence for ... Read more
Authors:Main, Jeremy P LDate:1997A 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 ... Read more
Authors:Salo, IngeDate:2014Against the background of the Group Areas Act (1950) and the consequent forced removals this thesis recovers the history of Fairview, Port Elizabeth. I examine how this neighbourhood is remembered through oral histories, ... Read more
Authors:Luger, Michael KarlDate:1998Urban development and engineering works have resulted in the majority of rivers that drain urban areas being severely degraded, both ecologically and in terms of their potential amenity value. This dissertation explores ... Read more
Authors:Baxter, Andrew JamesDate:1997This thesis presents new palaeoenvironmental evidence from the semi-arid lowlands of the West Coast Sandveld, which prompts a fresh synthesis as to the nature of late Quaternary environmental changes in the southwestern ... Read more
Authors:Schachtschneider, KlaudiaDate:2010In arid southern Africa, many rivers are ephemeral, and surface flow occurs for less than 10% of the year. Floods, which occur erratically, recharge groundwater resources on which riverine vegetation depends. Trees and ... Read more
Authors:Sunde, JacquelineDate:2014Customary systems of marine resource governance have gained increasing attention internationally in the past three decades. Notwithstanding this, and despite the Constitutional recognition of customary governance and ... Read more
Authors:Mafune, ItaniDate:1998This dissertation is concerned with the question of local resource use. It explores this question and more specifically common property resource management regimes using Skoonheid Resettlement Project in the Omaheke Region ... Read more
Authors:Blake, EvanDate:2014Fieldwork conducted around The Locomotive Hotel, a drinking establishment in Salt River, took place across a two year period involving building relations with a diverse range of local or regular patrons. During this ... Read more