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Theses and Dissertations (Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-03)An extensive compulsory cattle dipping programme was introduced in Venda from 1915 to counter rinderpest and East Coast Fever (ECF). This study approached the sustainability of cattle dipping from environmental, economic, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)A supercell thunderstorm, notorious for producing large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and flooding, often results in damage to property, injuries, and loss of life. Supercells were previously considered rare in South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-02-14)Food security is an issue of global concern; this has mandated research on the development of systems for monitoring of agriculture using cost effective techniques such as remote sensing. Smallholder maize farms are dominant ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The teaching of pre-colonial urban settlements in Africa has been neglected and, where present, it has traditionally relied on false concepts of civilization that played directly into stereotypes of precolonial African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Peatlands are wetlands with peat-producing plants that account for one-third of wetlands worldwide and provide a variety of ecological functions and ecosystem services such as carbon storage, biomass production, biodiversity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Addresses are an integral part of daily life, but little is understood about what South Africans’ perceptions of them are. This was explored through three groups; residents of informal settlements and surrounding areas who ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Burrowing mammals, i.e., mammals that dig in the ground for shelter creation, food, and nesting, play an important role in the ecosystem, since their burrows support plant and animal assemblages that differ from that of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study focuses on the Kendal Power Station located in the Nkangala District, eMalahleni Municipality in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The study intended to establish whether or not the effluent water management ...
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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, 2021)Cut-off low (COL) pressure systems are critical weather systems which can result in resulting various severe weather events on South Africa. COLs are often associated with surface cyclones which can enhance weather-related ...
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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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An evaluation of alternatives to conventional addressing in two informal settlements of South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2021)An address is used to provide identifiable information to describe a physical object’s location unambiguously. Addresses are vital, not just for navigation but also for service delivery and city management. Conventional ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-12)This research aimed contribute to the understanding of investments directed to agriculture and land by investigating three new and interrelated facets related to land acquisitions, based on the China South Africa Agricultural ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Small scale fisheries serve as a “safety net” to the landless poor and significantly contribute to nutrition, food security, sustainable livelihood and poverty alleviation especially in developing countries such as Zambia. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The early 2000s witnessed a global awareness on adoption of renewable and environmental friendly energy with anticipated socio-economic benefits in developing countries. In Zambia, investments in biofuel feedstock mainly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Atmospheric aerosols are small solid and liquid particles suspended in the Earth's atmosphere which originate from anthropogenic and natural activities. Unlike greenhouse gases, aerosol particles are relatively short-lived ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-02)African swine fever (ASF) affect wild and domestic stock and can cause extensive socio-economic damage. The main objective of this study was to understand the role of Ndumo Game Reserve (NGR) and its surroundings in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are the most endangered large carnivore in Southern Africa. There are as little as 5,000 individuals globally and less than 450 African wild dogs in South Africa alone. African wild dogs ...
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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, 2020)Gully erosion is a complex phenomenon initiated by various erosion-related processes. Due to the complexity of drivers contributing to this degradation process, it has received, compared to sheet and rill erosion, less ...
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