Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Environmental Science) by Title
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Land restitution and conservation : social capital in the Mkambati community.
(2013)This study highlights the role social capital plays in promoting relationships within and between organizations so that they are able to act with common cause. For years relationships between parks and local communities ... -
Linking thermal variability and change to urban growth in Harare Metropolitan City using remotely sensed data.
(2017)Urban growth, which involves Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC), alters land surface thermal properties. Within the framework of rapid urban growth and global warming, land surface temperature (LST) and its elevation ... -
Lipid peroxidation and the antioxidant systems in soybean seed maturation and germination.
(2003)The biochemical changes taking place during soybean seed development and gennination, and some aspects of desiccation tolerance were assessed with reference to lipid peroxidation and antioxidant systems. During nonnal seed ... -
Managing relationships, learning and demands in protected areas : a social systems analysis.
(2007)This thesis seeks to contribute to the improved understanding of social systems analysis in management effectiveness research on protected areas. It develops and applies propositions for incorporating the analysis of social ... -
Modelling spatial variability of coffee (Coffea Arabica L.) crop condition with multispectral remote sensing data.
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Optical remote sensing of aboveground forest biomass and carbon stocks in resource-constrained African environments.
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Optimisation of an innovative system of sustainable production in Rwanda : the integrated rabbit-fish-rice system.
(2011)Population escalation in the developing world has been associated with increased poverty, food insecurity and environmental degradation. The situation in Rwanda, with 2.82% annual population increase is no exception. The ... -
Organizational culture and its underlying basic assumptions as a determinant of response to change : a case study of KwaZulu-Natal's conservation sector, South Africa.
(2005)This study was concerned with elaborating theory and informing practice about the process of managing change in organizations. It was premised on the implications of organizational culture and its underlying basic assumptions ... -
Perceptions of the conservancy concept, common pool resources and the challenge of collective action across private property boundaries : a case study of the Dargle Conservancy, South Africa.
(2013)Conservancies are viewed as playing an important role in enabling the landscape-scale management of biodiversity and ecosystem services by extending conservation areas beyond the boundaries of formally protected areas ... -
Population genetics of the prawn penaeus indicus (crustacea: decapoda) in the Western Indian Ocean.
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Protected Area Outreach programmes : a case study and critical evaluation.
(1998)Sub-Saharan African conservation authorities are progressively shifting their emphasis away from law enforcement based management strategies, towards management strategies aimed at facilitating local community participation ... -
Rangeland degradation assessment using remote sensing and vegetation species.
(2011)The degradation of rangeland grass is currently one of the most serious environmental problems in South Africa. Increaser and decreaser grass species have been used as indicators to evaluate rangeland condition. Therefore, ... -
The relationship between agency and empowerment : a case study of the Ikhowe craft group.
(2010)There has been considerable debate in the gender and development literature on income earning opportunities and their empowerment potential for women, particularly rural women, in developing countries. In this, a critical ... -
Remote sensing grass quantity under different grassland management treatments practised in the Southern African rangelands.
(2016)Abstract available in PDF file. -
Remote sensing of endangered tree species in the fragmented Dukuduku Indigenous Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2016)Abstract available in PDF file. -
Remote sensing of forest health : the detection and mapping of Thaumastocoris peregrinus damage in plantation forests.
(2012)Thaumastocoris peregrinus (T. peregrinus) is a sap-sucking insect that feeds on Eucalyptus leaves. It poses a major threat to the forest sector by reducing the photosynthetic ability of the tree, resulting in stunted ... -
The remote sensing of insect defoliation in Mopane woodland.
(2013)Mopane (Colophospermum mopane) woodlands are a source of valuable resources that contribute substantially to rural economies and nutrition across Southern Africa. However, a number of factors such as over-harvesting and ... -
Remote sensing of the distribution and quality of subtropical C3 and C4 grasses.
(2013)Global climate change is expected to be accompanied by changes in the composition of plant functional types. Such changes are predicted to follow shifts in the percentage cover and abundance of grass species, following ... -
Restoration of a degraded subtropical forest for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the city of Durban, South Africa.
(2017)With unprecedented changes in climate and land-use patterns, a decrease in global biodiversity and ecosystem services has been occurring at an alarming rate. This has resulted in a widespread damage to the life-support ...