Author:Sweijd, Neville; Zaitchik, BFDate:Jun 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the great historical events of the modern era, presenting a generational challenge to the world. Questions about the role of weather on SARS-CoV-2 transmission led to the gathering of scientists at an ...Read more
Author:Breytenbach, AndreDate:Sep 2020Humankind often needs to accurately model, identify and spatially quantify aboveground phenomena on the Earth’s surface for informed decision-making. Height data derived from digital elevation models (DEMs) is often used to achieve this. This ...Read more
Author:Scharler, UM; Gerber, G; Taljaard, Susan; Mackay, FDate:Mar 2024Models are inherently data-hungry for the construction, calibration, validation and predictive capacity that is demanded of models. In data-poor environments, a severe challenge to modelling is the lack of historic data, and present lack of ...Read more
Author:Steyn, Maronel; Walters, Chavon RDate:Nov 2021Water scarcity, increased pollution, unprecedented population growth and climate change are collectively driving the need to reuse water with the aim to enhance water security, sustainability, and resilience. It is clear that South Africa¿s ...Read more
Author:Van Reenen, Coralie A; Du Plessis, ChrisnaDate:Aug 2021This research set out to broaden the pool of evidence regarding the acoustic conditions at schools in South Africa. A review of local and international literature, standards and design guidelines shows that the ideal classroom acoustic ...Read more
Author:Arabi, Sumaiya; Taljaard, Susan; Weerts, Steven PDate:Mar 2022Globally sustainable environmental practices in ports have been linked to socio-economic benefits. While African ports are increasingly acknowledging environmental issues and starting to address these in environmental policy, many are still ...Read more
Author:Taljaard, Susan; Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, JB; Riddin, TDate:Mar 2023Rapid degradation of ecosystems and loss of ecosystem services have sparked interest in developing approaches to report and integrate such change with socio-economic information systems, such as the System of National Accounts. Here we describe ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, JB; Taljaard, Susan; Huizinga, Piet; Lamberth, SDate:Feb 2020The early 1990s in South Africa were characterised by a strongly hierarchical and technocratic regime where planning and development decisions regarding the environment were made at national government level with little or no public consultation ...Read more
Author:Stein, ED; Gee, EM; Adams, JB; Irving, K; Van Niekerk, LaraDate:Feb 2021The science needed to inform management of environmental flows to temporarily closed estuaries and coastal lagoons is decades behind the state of knowledge for rivers and large embayments. These globally ubiquitous small systems, which are ...Read more
Author:Meyers, Bronwyn C; Grobler, Jan-Hendrik; Snedden, GCDate:Jul 2023A combustor was designed for a 200N micro-gas turbine [1, 2] using the NREC preliminary combustor design method [1, 2, 3]. During the design process, there are various aspects where there are no definitive methodologies for specifying the ...Read more
Author:Mokoena, Refiloe; Mturi, George AJ; Maritz, Johan; Mateyisi, Mohau; Klein, PieterDate:Jan 2022The reliable performance of roads is crucial for service delivery, and it is a catalyst for domestic and cross-border spatial development. Paved national roads are expected to carry higher traffic volumes over time as a result of urbanization ...Read more
Author:Gibberd, Jeremy TDate:Dec 2020Climate change and rapid urbanisation have meant there is increasing pressure on water supplies in human settlements in South Africa. This has led to unreliable water supplies and outages. It is therefore important to understand whether there ...Read more
Author:Raju, KumarDate:Jun 2020The search for new materials that can hold the heteroatoms viz., nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus becomes crucial for robust energy storage and conversion devices. Recently, ammonium metal phosphates (NH4MPO4, M = Mn2+, Ni2+, Co2+, Fe2+, etc.) ...Read more
Author:Genthe, Bettina; Ndlela, Luyanda L; Madlala, TebogoDate:Dec 2020According to the Centre for Disease Dynamics Economics and Policy, South Africa represents a paradox of antibiotic management similar to other developing countries, with both overuse and underuse (resulting from lack of access) of antibiotics. ...Read more
Author:Dunn, M; Nel, V; Van den Berg, S; Van Huyssteen, ElsonaDate:Sep 2023The aim of this paper is to show the potential value of using the constructivist grounded theory (CGT) methodology in the Urban and Regional Planning discipline. This is done by reflecting on the application of the CGT fundamentals defined ...Read more
Author:Kgaphola, Motsoko J; Ramoelo, Abel; Odindi, J; Mwenge Kahinda, Jean-Marc; Seetal, Ashwin RDate:Mar 2023Land degradation (LD) is a global issue that affects sustainability and livelihoods of approximately 1.5 billion people, especially in arid/semi-arid regions. Hence, identifying and assessing LD and its driving forces (natural and anthropogenic) ...Read more