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Browsing Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology by Type "Mini Dissertation"
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Despite the strategic importance of community parks for low-income areas where residents are often confined into densely occupied living areas, these parks remain neglected and research about the sense of connectedness or ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Climate change requires the urgent and effective implementation of climate change mitigation measures. These provide the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to limit global warming to 2°C or less ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Within the Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) process, Environmental Assessment Practitioners are expected to gather information or evidence in order to formulate decisions on the suitability of development projects ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study is an exploratory and descriptive inquiry to provide an in-depth account of women farmers in Maseru and Quthing districts in Lesotho to capture how they perceive, experience, and respond to climate variability. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Climate change and its negative impacts on ecosystem functioning on a global scale have recently become apparent. Climatic influences often negatively influence sensitive environments such as estuary’s ability to provide ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Urbanisation of catchment areas is a major cause of freshwater ecosystem degradation worldwide. As catchments become more developed and river ecosystems become increasingly engulfed in various land use activities, there ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-13)Trade in agricultural commodities is beneficial economically, but it carries risks, as alien agricultural pests can be imported into new regions. To manage this challenge, inspections of agricultural produce are performed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-24)The planet is facing a range of environmental issues related to and caused by anthropogenic activities. Biodiversity loss constitutes one of the most significant environmental tragedies of modern times. Climate change and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-01-24)Increases in global air temperatures have provided the impetus for extensive research into how thermal constraints impact species behaviour and vulnerability to climate change, with recent heat-related mortality events ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Given the need for urgent climate action, newspapers have – and might increasingly come to – frame climate change (CC) as a security threat. By strategically securitising CC in published articles, newspapers could help ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Across the world, grasslands provide open space and resources to many wildlife species, but are under severe threat of transformation by agriculture and land-use change. Although the grassland biome of South Africa is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Soil erosion is a critical problem in the Southern African environment and often manifests through gully erosion. Such gullies are visible in many regions of South Africa. Various factors increase gully development. These ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-07)The new sustainable development agenda for 2030 was adopted in 2015 with implementation now in progress. This ambitious agenda proposed 17 goals and 169 targets in areas of significance: people, planet, prosperity, peace ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This mini-dissertation considers semi-parametric finite mixtures of partially linear models with Gaussian errors and focuses on the estimation procedure for such models. The semi-parametric structure allows for flexible ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The overall objective of the study is to plan and recommend the most appropriate city environment that can foster the dynamic interactions necessary to implement sustainable and adaptable smart city projects for the purpose ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The negative health and socio-economic impacts of emissions associated with domestic fuel burning are widely recognized. Although there has been much progress in the provision of electricity to households in South Africa, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrows provide shelter to a variety of organisms, making it important to understand how these engineered environments get utilized in areas that are affected by agricultural activities. To ...
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