Browsing Masters Degrees (Geography) by Title
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A 40,000-year record of vegetation and fire history from the Tate Vondo region, Northeastern Southpansberg, South Africa.
(2014-06-30)Records from the Quaternary period are used to confirm possible inferred climatic changes, reveal the responses of species to these changes, and serve as an archive against which modern environmental dynamics can be ... -
Achieving local economic development through natural resource-based tourism in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2003)A number of development strategies and programmes are currently being explored in South Africa as a part of a renewed ihitiative to overcome the imbalances persisting from the apartheid era with respect to development, ... -
Adventure travel and sustainable tourism development in Lesotho : the case of pony trekking.
(1999)Tourism in Lesotho reached a peak in the mid-1970's, based upon the opening of modern hotels and casinos in Maseru and the attraction of gambling. This was an activity which was not then available in the neighbouring ... -
Aerosols and atmospheric circulation characteristics over Durban.
(2000)The main objective of this study was to investigate the vertical distribution of aerosols over Durban in relation to the vertical stability structure and horizontal transport of air masses. The importance of aerosols in ... -
Analysis of high ozone events over Africa using aircraft data.
(2002)Previous research has shown that there is considerable enhancement of tropospheric ozone over the African continent. The role of biomass burning as a source of ozone precursor gases and the atmospheric circulation, in ... -
An analysis of municipal solid waste management in South Africa using the Msunduzi Municipality as a case study.
(2009)Municipal Solid Waste generation has become an inevitable consequence of lifestyles and daily living. However, the nature (quantity and quality) of this waste stream can vary and is largely dependent upon the manner in ... -
Analysis of surface ozone measurements at Cape Point, SANAE and City of Cape Town.
(2014-11-21)This study presents an investigation of surface ozone (O₃) at SANAE (2002 to 2009), Cape Point (1997 to 2009), Molteno (1997 to 2007) and Goodwood (2000 to 2006). The Cape Point data was statistically separated to background ... -
An analysis of terracettes in a region of Giant's Castle Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa.
(1998)Terracettes are a widely occurring form of micro-relief found throughout regions displaying various climatic and environmental conditions. Much speculation surrounds the processes responsible for their formation and ... -
An analysis of the potential erosional changes in the KwaZulu-Natal coastline due to the effects of sea level rise and associated storm surges.
(2015)The coastlines around the world are currently in the process of being eroded by naturally occurring oceanic conditions. The vast majority of people living near or on these coastlines have no idea what they may be in store ... -
Analysis of the rural development experience in the former Transkei : the case of Xalanga District.
(1997)The period after World War II has witnessed an upsurge in the interest in the plight of the people entrapped in desperate poverty and deprivation in the Third World countries. However, even with the focus on underdevel ... -
Application of intertidal salt-marsh foraminifera to reconstruct late Holocene sea-level change at Kariega Estuary, South Africa.
(2013)Unclear predictions surrounding climate change, associated sea-level rise and potential impacts upon coastal environments have placed an emphasis on the importance of sea-level change. Past sea-level fluctuations have ... -
The application of remote sensing in drought monitoring : a case study of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)Drought is a severe natural disaster which occurs across wide spatial boundaries and inconsistent temporal patterns. The slow onset and gradual formation of drought highlights the importance of early detection, allowing ... -
Applications of remote sensing in sugarcane agriculture at Umfolozi, South Africa.
(2004)The aim of this study was to evaluate potential applications of remote sensing technology in sugarcane agriculture, using the Umfolozi Mill Supply Area as a case study. Several objectives included the evaluation of remotely ... -
Assessing multi-temporal remote sensing imagery for discriminating savannah tree species.
(2015-07-13)The advent of new multispectral sensors such as Worldview-2 with very high spatial resolution (VHR) has presented new opportunities for mapping vegetation at species-level. However the use of VHR data for tree species ... -
Assessing the drivers and impact of illegal hunting for bushmeat and trade on serval (Leptailurus serval, Schreber 1776) and oribi (Ourebia ourebi, Zimmermann 1783) in South Africa.
(2017)Bushmeat contributes significantly to food security of rural people in developing countries. In regions where animal husbandry is not viable and access to domestic sources of protein is limited, bushmeat represents a primary ... -
Assessing the effectiveness of a role playing game as a stakeholder engagement tool for integrated natural resource management.
(2015)The European Union funded project Afromaison (Africa at meso-scale: adaptive and integrated tools and strategies for natural resources management) aimed to address current challenges facing South Africa’s environmental ... -
Assessing the level of habitat fragmentation of the KwaZulu-Natal sandstone sourveld.
(2015)Numerous processes, including habitat loss and fragmentation, contribute to ecosystem degradation, resulting in the loss of ecosystem functioning and diversity. The KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Sourveld (KZN SS) is a grassland ... -
An assessment of fire regimes on different vegetation types using MODIS burned area products.
(2017)Cost-efficient satellite data has been widely used to map the spatial and temporal distribution of fires in resource scarce regions such as southern Africa. However, the accuracy of such data is often unknown, which ... -
An assessment of land cover change patterns using remote sensing : a case study of Dube and Esikhawini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2013-11-01)During the past two centuries, land cover has been changing at an alarming rate in space and time and it is humans who have emerged as the dominant driver of change in the environment, resulting in changes of extraordinary ...