Author:Mtshweni, Jabu; Modiba, FSDate:Sep 2021Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have transformed almost every aspect of our lives as citizens, employees, parents, politicians, businesses, leaders, and as members of any type of a community. ICTs have demonstrated across ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:2009Acid Mine Discharge (AMD) is a contaminated waste generated out of the mining activities both during and after the operation period. AMD has adverse impact on the socio-economic conditions of the people residing in and around mining site. It ...Read more
Author:Tasan-Kok, T; Babalik-Sutcliffe, E; Van Huyssteen, Elsona; Oranje, MDate:Jan 2018The long-neglected task of defining the discipline of planning, describing the multiplicity of influences impinging upon it and unravelling the complementary (and even contradictory) discourses constituting it probably means probing the core ...Read more
Author:Adebiyi, ID; Popoola, PAP; Pityana, Sisa LDate:Apr 2016Today's increasingly extreme and aggressive production environments require that machine components be made with materials having specific surface properties such as good wear resistance. Unfortunately, nature does not provide such materials, ...Read more
Author:Ford, M; Leinonen, TDate:Mar 2009MobilED is a South African initiative aimed at designing teaching and learning environments that are meaningfully enhanced with mobile technologies and services. The deliverables are the development of a set of scenarios and guidelines on how ...Read more
Author:Fabricius, C; Scholes, RJ; Cundill, GDate:2006The Southern African Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (SAfMA, http://www.maweb.org) was undertaken at a variety of spatial scales, from the regional (with sub-Saharan Africa as the assessment area) to the local (at the scale of a village, ...Read more
Author:Hunter, LawranceDate:Nov 2012Although luxury animal fibres, excluding silk, represent far less than 0.1% of global fibre production, they play a very significant role in the luxury, high value-added end of the market, notably the apparel market, being renowned for their ...Read more
Author:Hunter, LawranceDate:Nov 2012Although luxury animal fibres, excluding silk, represent far less than 0.1% of global fibre production, they play a very significant role in the luxury, high value-added end of the market, notably the apparel market, being renowned for their ...Read more
Author:Bruford, MW; Davies, N; Dulloo, ME; Faith, DP; Walters, MicheleDate:2018DNA is the most elemental level of biodiversity, drives the process of speciation, and underpins other levels of biodiversity, including functional traits, species and ecosystems. Until recently biodiversity indicators have largely overlooked ...Read more
Author:Wessels, Konrad JDate:2011In South Africa, land degradation in rangelands has been regarded as a major environmental problem for many years. During the last ten years, attention focussed on the land degradation in the former homelands, now communal lands. There is an ...Read more
Author:Wessels, Konrad J; Prince, SDate:2007Desertification is defined by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as ‘land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas (dry-lands) resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human ...Read more
Author:Smith, SimoneDate:Jan 2021The chapter is centred around the core of Blue Economy and the disciplines that may support the Blue Economy activities as an attempt to indicate the direct and indirect impacts the Blue Economy activities and the disciplines that supports ...Read more
Author:Swanepoel, Derick; Van den Bergh, FransDate:Mar 2017Earth observation data are typically compressed using general-purpose single-threaded compression algorithms that operate at a fraction of the bandwidth of modern storage and processing systems. We present evidence that recently developed ...Read more
Author:Mambo, Julia; Murambadoro, Miriam DDate:Dec 2017South Africa, like the rest of Africa, is considered highly vulnerable to climate change and variability as well as to global change. Climate change is and will continue to be an issue of concern in the development of the country. South Africa ...Read more
Author:Strydom, WF; Oelofse, Suzanna HH; John, J; Afrika, ME; Mvuma, GGDate:Feb 2012This document aims to cover good practices in each of the stages of waste management, from the point of collection through transport, storage, and treatment to final disposal.Read more
Author:Dube, A; Semete-Makokotlela, Boitumelo; Ramalapa, Bathabile E; Reynolds, J; Boury, FDate:Mar 2021The increasing prevalence of drug resistant pathogenic strains, including multi drug resistant TB along with the growing HIV and malaria resistance demand new routes of innovation for pharmaceutical drug discovery. Nanomedicine provides the ...Read more
Author:Wen, L; Luo, Honqze; Liu, G-Y; Zheng, HaitaoDate:Jul 2016Nanostructured lithium titanates (Li(sub4)Ti(sub5)O(sub12)) have been intensively investigated as anode materials of Li-ion batteries due to their many advantages, such as excellent performance, outstanding safety, and excellent cycle life. ...Read more
Author:Makgopa, K; Ejikeme, PM; Ozoemena, KIDate:Jul 2016The development of energy storage systems (ESSs) comes as a crucial factor when it comes to addressing the problem of energy in the world due to the rapid development of the global economy, the depletion of fossil fuels and the increase of ...Read more
Author:Hillie, T; Hlophe, MDate:Aug 2012This chapter discusses water and its sources; the main focus is put on surface water and ground water. Factors such as water pollution and sewage are also discussed in areas of mining and agriculture. Furthermore the global water challenges ...Read more