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Agritourism : market segmentation profile of potential and practising agritourists

Speirs, Lindsay Justine (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rural tourism and agritourism are in their infant stages in South Africa. It benefits the farmer, the local community, the rural area, the tourist and the country. It is therefore a viable option but ...
Airport noise in South Africa – Prediction models and their effect on land-use planning

Goldschagg, Paul (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)

The use of average energy aircraft noise contours as the sole means for guiding aircraft noise-based planning around airports is being questioned increasingly. A growing proportion of residents who live in neighbourhoods ...
Analysis of traffic accidents in Gaborone, Botswana

Pego, Maeletso (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

Botswana, a developing country in southern Africa, has not been spared the proliferating scourge of traffic accidents that is sweeping across the world. After HIV/AIDS, traffic accidents are the second largest cause of ...
Ants, altitude and change in the northern Cape Floristic Region

Botes, A. McGeoch, M. A. Robertson, H. G. Van Niekerk, Adriaan Davids, H. P. Chown, S. L. (Blackwell publishing Ltd, 2006)

Aim: Climate-modelling exercises have demonstrated that the Cape Floristic Region is highly sensitive to climate change and will apparently lose much of its northern limits over the next few decades. Because there is ...
The application of the Planning Indicators Model as a tool for measuring the success of the Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework in the Cape Metropolitan Area

Letsie, Moipone (Moipone Amelia Mantsebo) (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recently there has been growing interest in evaluating the performance and outcomes of spatial planning policies worldwide. In response to this a research was carried out to evaluate and monitor the ...
Applications of dairy wastewater as a fertilizer to agricultural land : an environmental management perspective

Torr, Leigh Christine (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

As with any form of intensive agriculture, there are potential environmental impacts associated with the management and housing of livestock on dairy farms. Within the field of dairy farming, particular focus falls to ...
Applying GIS in the evaluation of landscape aesthetics

Fourie, Rene (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-04)

Scenic beauty, or landscape aesthetics, should be regarded as a valuable resource, to be protected and enhanced in order to generate income. Current environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies do not include the evaluation ...
Assessment of SPOT 5 and ERS-2 OBIA for mapping wetlands

Pauw, Theo (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research considered the automated remote sensing-based classification of wetland extent within the Nuwejaars and Heuningnes River systems on the Agulhas Plain. The classification process was based ...
Avian endemism in northeastern tropical Africa

Fjeldsa, Jon De Klerk, Helen (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2001)

The avian endemism of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa was analyzed using a database where all bird distributions in Africa south of the Sahara are recorded in a one-degree grid. Applying a hierarchical classification ...
Biodiversity and the South African wine sector: a successful blend?

Bridgman, Corrie (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

The acceleration of biodiversity loss is understood to threaten the ecosystems upon which life on earth depends. Existing conservation approaches have proved insufficient to stem global biodiversity losses. Mounting ...
Biogeographical patterns of endemic terrestrial Afrotropical birds

De Klerk, H. M. Crowe, T. M. Fjeldsa, J. Burgess, N. D. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)

Biogeographical zones are described for terrestrial bird species endemic to the Afrotropics using up-to-date distributional data and multivariate statistical techniques. This provides an objective basis for a hierarchy ...
Breaking down the binary : meanings of informal settlement in southern African cities

Groenewald, Liela Huchzermeyer, Marie Kornienko, Kristen Tredoux, Marius J. Rubin, Margot Raposo, Isabel (HSRC Press, 2013)

Informality is a ubiquitous characteristic of urban life in Africa and elsewhere. Although the phenomenon of informality is loosely understood as the strategies and institutions that develop beyond the regulatory framework ...
Carbon sequestration and trading potential in semi-arid South Africa : a Karoo case study

Paviour, Sarah-Jane (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The succulent thicket plant community of South Africa, particularly Portulacaria afra (in this study referred to as spekboom), occurring in the Thicket Biome, sequestrates an exceptional amount of carbon ...
Change in land cover and water abstraction : modelling runoff effects in the Bot River Catchment

Stipinovich, Amalia (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)

River basins have long been attracting human settlement and development, promising water and fertile lands (Newson 1992). The Bot River Catchment on the southern coast of South Africa is no exception. However, much of ...
Climate change in the Western Cape : a disaster risk assessment of the impact on human health

Louw, E. J. M. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)

Background The Disaster Management Act (Act 57 of 2002) instructs a paradigm shift from preparedness, response and recovery towards risk reduction. In order to plan for and mitigate risks, all spheres of government must ...
CLUES : a web-based land use expert system for the Western Cape

Van Niekerk, Adriaan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

GIS has revolutionized geographic analysis and spatial decision support and has greatly enhanced our understanding of the real world though it’s mapping and spatial modelling capabilities. Although GIS software is becoming ...
Community/neighbourhood park use in Cape Town : a class-differentiated analysis

Willemse, Lodene (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to determine how class differentiation influences local residents‟ perceptions, preferences, needs and use of community/neighbourhood parks in the City of Cape Town. The research ...
A comparison of land unit delineation techniques for land evaluation in the Western Cape, South Africa

Van Niekerk, Adriaan (Elsevier, 2010-07)

Land evaluation, an integral part of land use planning, has been established as one of the preferred methods to support sustainable land use management. In essence, land evaluation aims to compare and match each potential ...
A comparison of selected satellite remote sensing techniques for mapping fire scars in limestone fynbos

Smit, Walter J. (Walter Johan) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There are many reasons to conserve fynbos. Not only does fynbos form part of the Cape floral kingdom, one of the richest floral kingdoms in the world, but the contribution that it makes to the regional ...
A comparison of supervised and rule-based object-orientated classification for forest mapping

Stephenson, Garth Roy (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Supervised classifiers are the most popular approach for image classification due to their high accuracies, ease of use and strong theoretical grounding. Their primary disadvantage is the high level of ...