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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Environmental &"”.
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A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town
For the past thirty years, food producers and consumers have initiated alternative food networks (AFNs) because of the perception that the globalising agrifood system is unsustainable, untrustworthy, and untransparent. These alternative strategies for food production and distribution are perceived …
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Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Reconstructing Mid-to Late-Pleistocene Environments in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya
… Fossil phytoliths derived from sixty palaeosol samples extracted from eight geological sections in three localities of the Olorgesailie Basin, were identified and tallied to determine vegetation cover and how this changed both spatially and temporarily during the mid-late Pleistocene period. …
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Governing coastal risk: the case of Langebaan's disappearing shoreline
… shoreline is a complex and multi-faceted human-environmental issue. Furthermore, various reactive steps have been taken in response to Langebaan's eroding shoreline since the 1997 storm, these included hard and soft engineering measures as well as managed retreat. However, the Saldanha Bay …
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Simulating the Characteristics and Influences of the Botswana High over Southern Africa using the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)
… that the absence of ENSO forcing reduces the amplitude of the Botswana High variability, but the signal of the variability remains. While ENSO enhances the strength of the Botswana High, it does not aid the formation of the High. The result of the thesis has application in the improvement and …
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Change begets change: employing a change perspective to inform South Africa's coastal community conservation policy-praxis disjuncture
Contemporary biodiversity conservation is ‘wickedly complex'. This complexity stems from the need to address the diverse objectives of protecting biodiversity and enhancing social wellbeing. However, centralized and exclusionary conservation approaches are often ill-suited to tackling these coupled …