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Showing 1 to 20 of 299 for “"City of Cape Town"”.
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Walking the City of Cape Town: (un)happiness
This dissertation examines the politics of happiness in the postcolonial city, situating Cape Town as a critical site for interrogating its meanings, limits, and possibilities. While happiness has often been framed as a measurable state of well-being or a commodity of neoliberal governance, this …
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Leadership styles of senior librarians in the City of Cape Town
… investigated the following: “Leadership styles of senior librarians in the City of Cape Town”. Stueart and Moran (1998) state that despite the vast amount of knowledge, training and focus on management, little is known about how to lead efficiently and effectively. The motivation behind this …
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A GIS-based walkability index for the City of Cape Town
Walking is a widely accessible mode of transportation, yet our urban environments are automobile dependent. Automobile dependence, in turn, led to a rise in the level of inactivity amongst urban residents. Studies investigating the relationship between urban form and human health created …
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Should the City of Cape Town plan for fully autonomous vehicles?
Background The City of Cape Town's Comprehensive Integrated Transport Plan (CITP) 2018 to 2023 identifies public transport as the key driver to changing the spatial form of Cape Town, with all its urban inefficiencies and social inequality. A key element to building sustainable communities is the …
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Performance information utilisation in The City of Cape Town Metro Municipality
… information (PI) utilisation behaviour of senior officials in the City of Cape Town Metro Municipality (CoCT). Inspired by comments around performance information having minimal effects despite its prodigious production, the study sought to determine how performance information is used …
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Establishing energy benchmarks for commercial buildings in the City of Cape Town
… process and applies these in the context of South Africa.
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Promotion of gender equality - a case study of the City of Cape Town
The Constitution of SA 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) establishes the need for equality, and opportunity or access to government services and enshrines local government as one of the three spheres of government which is mandated to uphold and ensure adherence to sensitive gender dynamics. In terms of the …
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Flows and fates of nickel-cadmium batteries in the City of Cape Town
Current patterns of economic activity entail high rates of material extraction from the natural environment and the generation of large amounts of waste. Alternative strategies must be found if we are to avoid the exhaustion of resources and the environment's capacity to safely absorb our wastes. …
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A process evaluation of the City of Cape Town Business Support Voucher Programme
This dissertation focuses on a process evaluation of the City of Cape Town (CoCT) Business Support Voucher Programme (BSVP) which assessed whether this programme was implemented as intended. The BSVP aims to provide access to quality business support services and products to entrepreneurs in order …
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Identitiy and Belonging: Urban Nature and adolescent development in the City of Cape Town
… to two concerns: firstly, that the notion of nature and experiential, aesthetic ways of engaging with nature had declined markedly in environmental education research and practice in South Africa. Secondly, I was concerned that relatively few environmental education centres in Cape Town …
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Combining theoretical concepts and tools: mapping human deprivation in the City of Cape Town
… deprivation represents a contemporary 'paradox of development' that urgently nee4J to be addressed at the city scale. This research explores the argument that confusion over the measurement of human deprivation still exists, despite various development initiatives, in part because of a …
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Librarians’ book selection practices and budget fluctuations in the City of Cape Town, South Africa
One of the main purposes of a library is to disseminate information to the community it serves. Collection development, which is the process of building and maintaining a library’s collection is, thus an essential part of library services. The selection of materials that align with community needs …
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Use of social media as a marketing tool by the City of Cape Town Libraries
… in connecting with communities. The use of social media by City of Cape Town Libraries has been recently established, and it has not yet been adequately assessed how Librarians have taken to this new implementation. Literature revealed that there is not enough research done in assessing …
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Enabling and constraining factors in the management of four City of Cape Town public libraries
… effectively and efficiently due to the lack of the necessary skills such as human resources management, conflict management, communication, problem solving and leadership skills needed for the job. This study aimed at finding out the practices which constrained and enabled the management of …
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A financial feasibility study of waste to energy generation in the City of Cape Town
The objective of this research is to examine what the city of Cape Town has undertaken regarding its municipal solid waste (MSW) and to investigate the financial feasibility of WtE as a source of energy and a key component of integrated solid waste management for the City.
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An assessment of public participation in selected ward committees in the City of Cape Town
… extent to which ward committees, as instruments of public participation, can be said to empower citizen involvement in local government decision-making. Therefore the research question is what do the processes of public participation reveal about public empowerment at municipal government level? …
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How land use influences wildlife occupancy and species richness in the City of Cape Town
… and negatively impacting biodiversity. The city of Cape Town is situated in a global biodiversity hotspot but sustained anthropogenic activities have resulted in the local extirpation of most medium and large mammals. A recent survey of mammals within urban protected areas of the City of …
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Contraceptive continuation among women aged 15-49 utilizing City of Cape Town family planning services
… are consistent and that address the requirements of women, particularly young women who are at risk of unintended pregnancy. Objectives This study describes characteristics of contraceptive users accessing services and their contraceptive method usage patterns, including continuation, at public …
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An inter-racial study of trends in public health in the City of Cape Town
This thesis is a study of the epidemiology of the City of Cape Town during the first halt of the present century. In a sense it is an expansion and oontinuation of an investigation by Brook (1949) into the pattern of health end disease of the Cape Coloured people which he presented to the Medical …
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Development rights and conservation constraints: urban conservation-oriented controls in the City of Cape Town
The primary intention of this study is to analyse the imposition of urban conservation-oriented controls in the city centre of Cape Town during the period 1986-2000 and to evaluate their efficacy; the secondary, but directly related endeavour, is to explore the effect of these mechanisms on …
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