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Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of St. Lucia Creole English
This thesis documents in detail St. Lucia Creole English (SLCE), St. Lucia’s third language variety, which is spoken alongside Kwéyòl, a French-based creole, and Standard English. With only brief descriptions of its features previously available, this work fills a significant gap in the literature …
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Geohydrological studies of the Western Shores of lake St Lucia
Lake St Lucia is a sensitive estuarine system of international importance which is threatened with over-development within its catchment area by afforestation, overgrazing, proposed dredge mining on the eastern shores and other exploitations. These disturbances and proposed developments have …
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West Indian Migration and Adaptation in St. Lucia and London
… DSpace on 2014-12-14T05:35:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804086.pdf: 10339628 bytes, checksum: 39b8c8164779dff2340b9ec08b374dc7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Family Environment Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors Among Adolescents in St. Lucia
… influence the well-being, development, and adjustment of adolescents. There is a considerable body of research in the general literature associating the family environment with adolescent externalizing and internalizing behaviors of adolescents. St. Lucia, and the rest of the Caribbean, have …
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Coastal tourism development strategies In the town of st Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal: Conservation versus commercialisation
Coastal tourism development strategies are a new phenomenon in the world of community development and community conservation. The development of tourism products as compared to their conservation, is an ongoing debate, which has been tackled by many tourism scholars. The management of natural and …
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Youth Unemployment in St. Lucia, the West Indies: Perceptions and Expectations on Education and Work
This five-chapter case study compares and contrasts the views of two dominant actor groups, policymakers and employers, and of two subordinate actor groups, teachers and students, in Castries, St. Lucia, 1982. It begins with a theoretical examination of the relationship between education and …
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Invertebrate plankton assemblages in the surf zones of St. Lucia and Mhlathuze Estuaries, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
This study described the surf zone invertebrate plankton assemblages of the exposed sandy beaches adjacent to the St Lucia and the Mhlathuze estuaries. The broad aims of this study were to identify the invertebrate plankton assemblages, to describe these in terms of species composition, abundance …
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The ecology, genetics and conservation of a translocated population of Cnemidophorus Vanzoi (Teiidae) on Praslin Island, St. Lucia
This study investigates the colonisation of Praslin Island by C. vanzoi, three years after the translocation event. An examination of habitat use, lizard abundance, distribution and population genetics was conducted and population comparisons investigated changes in morphometrics or lizard …
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How successful is grassland restoration after removal of pine plantations on the eastern shores of Lake St Lucia?
The coastal grasslands that occur along the Eastern Shores of Lake St. Lucia are rich in plant species, including endemics. These grasslands in North KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are remnants of a severely threatened vegetation type. Large portions of the Eastern Shores have been utilized for …
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Effect of salinity and environmental changes on the fish community of the St Lucia Estuarine System with focus on the salinity tolerance of Oreochromis mossambicus (Mozambique Tilapia)
St Lucia, the largest estuarine lake system in Africa, has been closed since 2002, except for a brief opening in 2007 caused by Cyclone Gamede. Mouth opening in 2007 was preceded by five years of low lake levels and hypersaline conditions which greatly reduced marine fish species diversity. …
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Terrestrial-aquatic transfers by hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius): effects on food web and benthic community structure of the St Lucia Estuary, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, World Heritage Site, South Africa
Africa’s last extant aquatic megaherbivore, the hippopotamus, facilitates linkages between terrestrial and aquatic systems at scales, frequencies and intensities that are probably unmatched by any other natural process. Through defaecation of terrestrial grasses into aquatic habitats, hippos …
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The diet of selected benthic feeding fish in the Mfolozi-Msunduzi system, KwaZulu-Natal
The St Lucia estuarine system is considered to be the largest nursery area for estuarine-associated marine fish in southern Africa. The prolonged mouth closure due to regional droughts has resulted in large declines in its fish and prawn communities with deleterious consequences for regional marine …
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Aspects of the spatial and behavioural ecology of Hippopotamus amphibious in the Saint Lucia Estuary, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… is endemic to Africa but threatened by range restriction, exploitation and competition with humans and domestic livestock for access to critical resources such as fresh water and grazing. Collectively these impacts have resulted in population declines throughout most of their range with the …
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Larval fish assemblages of selected estuarine and coastal systems in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
This study focuses describing assemblages of fish larvae occurring in potential nursery habitats and elucidating the recruitment processes of fishes in the KwaZulu-Natal region. The composition, the degree of estuarine-association of all taxa, temporal and spatial abundance patterns, developmental …
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Functions of Gender in Soca: An Historical and Lyrical Analysis of St. Lucian Soca
Soca’s music history negatively impacts female soca artists, especially when taking into account each island’s differing Carnival music history. Contrary to popular assumptions, soca (as well as calypso) did not develop similarly in every Caribbean island. Soca actually exemplifies a pan-Caribbean …
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A geohydrological assessment of the behaviour and response of the Zululand coastal plain to both environmental influences and human activity
The Zululand coastal plain on the eastern seaboard of South Africa contains large quantities of readily available fresh water. Lake St Lucia, located within the plain, is a wetland habitat internationally recognised for- its environmental importance. Yet over the past few decades extensive forest …
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The impact of subsistence farming and informal settlement on Dukuduku Forest as a tourist resource
Dukuduku forest is one of the largest remaining stretches of coastal sand forest in South Africa More than 10 000 illegal squatters have invaded the forest and chopped down the trees and undergrowth in the area. This has created many problems such as extinction of some plant and animal species. The …
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An investigation into the ecology and biogeography of subtidal seaweed communities of KwaZulu-Natal
An investigation into the ecology and biogeography of subtidal seaweed communities of KwaZulu-Natal. This study is the first to investigate the ecology and biogeography of subtidal seaweed communities along the coast of the province of KwaZulu-Natal, on the east coast of South Africa. Intertidal …
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
… commentators, and foreign policy specialists: the insular Caribbean, which includes the English-speaking islands in the Caribbean archipelago; the Caribbean archipelago which encompasses all the islands in the Caribbean Sea plus the mainland extensions of Guyana, Suriname, and Cayenne on …
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
… commentators, and foreign policy specialists: the insular Caribbean, which includes the English-speaking islands in the Caribbean archipelago; the Caribbean archipelago which encompasses all the islands in the Caribbean Sea plus the mainland extensions of Guyana, Suriname, and Cayenne on …
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