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Premised on the disruption and lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic, and in meticulous response to the impact of the pandemic on higher education – especially in South Africa – this collection of chapters spotlights the effects, consequences, and ramifications of an unprecedented pandemic in the areas of knowledge production, knowledge transfe...
Premised on the disruption and lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic, and in meticulous response to the impact of the pandemic on higher education – especially in South Africa – this collection of chapters spotlights the effects, consequences, and ramifications of an unprecedented pandemic in the areas of knowledge production, knowledge transfe...
While some studies have examined aspects of tourism in Lesotho, there is limited research examining domestic tourist profiles and travel patterns, crucial to unlocking Lesotho’s domestic tourism potential. There is a need for such research to enable the development of appropriate tourism products and strategies. This study then critically examines...
This Position Paper investigates the level of South Africa's preparedness pre-COVID-19, interventions made during the pandemic and makes recommendations for post-COVID-19 preparedness and priority setting.
The questions addressed by the position paper are as follows:
1. What was the level of policy preparedness of South Africa before this pandemic...
In 2015 and 2016, South Africa experienced a severe drought resulting in water restrictions and food price inflation. A year later, while the proportion of food secure households remained constant, the proportion of those experiencing severe food insecurity increased. This paper investigates the socioeconomic determinants of increasing food insecur...
Objective:
To assess and compare the association between household food insecurity and child nutritional status over two time-points taking into consideration the effects of a severe drought.
Design:
The study used two cross-sectional household surveys during and after a severe drought, consistent with a natural experiment design.
Setting:
The...
The effects of rainfall variability and droughts on food production are well established. However, in South Africa, the association between rainfall, droughts and household food insecurity is not well known. The aim of this paper was to measure and compare household food insecurity during and after a drought, and to assess the association between r...
Waste management has become pertinent in urban regions, along with rapid population growth. The current ways of managing waste, such as refuse collection and recycling, are failing to minimise waste in cities. With urban populations growing worldwide, there is the challenge of increased pressure to import food from rural areas. Urban agriculture no...
Cape Town, one of South Africa’s key coastal tourism destinations, provides a useful case study to examine visitor profiles in Coastal and Marine Tourism (CMT) sites. Nine hundred and seven visitor surveys were completed in purposively selected CMT locations in Cape Town. The main findings reveal that there is diversity among visitors frequenting C...
Communities neighbouring protected areas globally suffer various costs while enjoying limited benefits from conservation areas. This study compared livelihood costs and benefits to selected neighbouring communities around the Somkhanda Game Reserve (SGR), which is a community-owned conserved area and the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP), a state-owned,...
The Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) programme in South Africa is intended to unlock the arts, culture and heritage sector to create sustainable jobs and economic development as well as address social cohesion. This research focuses on one of the main sub-categories, the Festivals and Events Grant Programme of the MGE and investigates the programme for...
Communities neighbouring protected areas globally suffer various costs while enjoying limited benefits from conservation areas. This study compared livelihood costs and benefits to the selected neighbouring communities around the Somkhanda Game Reserve (SGR), which is a community-owned conserved area and the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP), a state-ow...
Food insecurity varies between urban and rural populations, as do their household characteristics and practices. The aim of the study was to compare the behaviours and practices households in rural and urban areas carry out during times of limited food in the district of iLembe, South Africa. Using a cross-sectional study design, household surveys...
Conservation through restoration and rehabilitation of ecological infrastructure is an important climate change adaptation strategy. The Giba Gorge Environmental Precinct project is a pilot biodiversity conservation project for ecosystem services, which in the broader scheme, enhances community resilience and ability to adapt to climate change. Thi...
Governance and institutional arrangements are key components in rural livelihoods development and adaptation to climate variability and change in developing countries. This research explores the governance system in practice, critically considering its enhancement in Chadereka of Muzarabani Rural District. Zimbabwe for decades has not been having a...
Food insecurity is a global phenomenon that has seen an increase since 2015, thought to be a result of growing conflict- and climate-related shocks. While there are a number of different tools to measure household food security, there is no agreed global standard. This situation is reflected in South Africa where there is no nationally accepted too...
Coastal and Marine Tourism (CMT), as part of the oceans economy, offers significant
development opportunities that can contribute to job creation and sustainability. However, there are limited
national and international best practices to assess the economic impacts of CMT. The aim of this study was
to reflect on experiences from a piloting exercise...
e-Waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams globally. In the South African context e-Waste is receiving considerable attention from the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) who view it as being one of the fastest growing and most complex waste streams. There is recognition that e-Waste provides both threats and opportunities. In terms...
Community involvement is increasing in importance in relation to nature conservation and ecotourism which includes public participation in decision-making, access to biological resources and communities' receipt of benefits from ecotourism. South Africa is well known for biodiversity conservation. Yet, research indicates that neighbouring historica...
In recent years, the popularity of tree-based ensemble methods for land cover classification has increased significantly. Using WorldView-2 image data, we evaluate the potential of the oblique random forest algorithm (oRF) to classify a highly heterogeneous protected area. In contrast to the random forest (RF) algorithm, the oRF algorithm builds mu...
This article focuses on mega-event leveraging, specifically on experiences in the developing context. While most large-scale sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cups have been traditionally hosted in the more affluent, developed and industrialised nations; the hosting of the first-ever FIFA World Cup in South Africa in 2010...
This overview provides the conceptual and contextual foundation for the issue on ‘Gender and climate change’. Drawing on a literature review and appraisal of the contributions in this issue, we foreground the current key climate change debates. There is consensus that climate change is a global challenge with devastating impacts at different scales...
This paper investigates the perceived and observed trends of associated health risks with seasonal climate variability and identifies types of and preference for adaptation strategies that are available at households and community levels in Oke-Ogun region, Nigeria. The study made use of household survey and rapid appraisal through focus group disc...
The 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa was the biggest mega-event ever to be hosted on the African continent. This historical event had several social, economic and developmental imperatives, including destination profiling and changing negative perceptions of South Africa, specifically, and the African continent more generally. This research...
There are several impacts of hosting events that relate to economic and social development aspects. South Africa has used sport tourism to promote the country as a major sports events destination. Research on mega-events tends to focus on economic impacts, including tourism effects. Very few, however, examine visitor perceptions of the event to est...
This paper identifies types of coping strategies that are available during water supply shortages to households in Oke-Ogun, Nigeria; investigates the adequacy and effectiveness of coping options and identifies why different population group prefer one particular coping strategy over another. This work also investigates how household socioeconomic...
Increasingly, governments from both the developed and developing world look to hosting sport mega-events as a way to stimulate development. There is much debate over what the legacies of sport mega-events are, how to stimulate positive legacies and how they should be studied. Drawing on a growing body of scholarship on legacy best and worst practic...
This study investigated the sport development and social legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It assessed the impact of an event-themed legacy project on Gansbaai, a non-host, small-town community in the Western Cape, South Africa. The Football Foundation of South Africa (FFSA) was established to capitalise on the increased excitement about football...
More developing countries are now bidding for and hosting mega-events. However, it is unclear whether the legacies of a sport mega-event will benefit the host country's rural citizens. This is a particularly neglected area of research on mega-events. Rural communities in South Africa remain marginalised and often impoverished. This study assesses r...
The existing body of research on mega-events has so far focused on wider economic impacts, with little attention being given to the social impacts of large sporting events on visitors and local residents. Specifically gender issues are neglected in relation to the FIFA World Cups since it is often assumed that these events are male dominant, both i...
Sub-Saharan Africa has a history of land dispossession and contestation which have resulted in various types of inequalities and a skewed distribution of land resources. Land in Sub-Saharan Africa has been subject to conflict, conquest, expropriation and exploitation thus resulting in the many discrepancies that exist today. This has greatly influe...
Environmental conflicts have emerged as key issues challenging local, regional, national and global security. Environmental crises and problems throughout the world are widespread and increasing rapidly. In relation to these concerns, the article discusses the following aspects: people and the environment, environmental conflicts, climate change an...
This article examines environmental conflicts and women’s vulnerability in Africa. Environmental resources are critical to poor women’s productive and reproductive lives in Africa. Environmental resources diversify livelihoods and are key to the survival strategies women adopt. Environmental conflicts are ofconcern in several parts of Africa and th...
This article compares the profiles of spectators and participants at the 2006 Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in terms of identifying spectators’ and participants’ motivations, travel behaviour and demographic profi les. The results refl ect a diverse audience at the event. Budget accommodation, in terms of visiting friends and relatives and staying...
South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup has raised critical debates relating to the ability of developing countries to successfully host events of this magnitude. Yet some cities in South Africa have indicated an interest inbidding for the Olympic Games in the future, including Cape Town, which was one of the cities that bid in 2004. This...
Sport events have become big business as countries as well as cities are competing fi ercely to host major events. The purpose of this article is to determine the economic impact of visitor spending during the annual Cape Argus Pick ’n Pay Cycle Tour. Direct spending was determined based on asurvey consisting of 583 respondents, while the impact of...
This research contributes to a greater understanding of the linkages among women’s roles, responsibilities, and the use of and access to technologies in marginalized rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal. How poor rural women conceptualize technologies, and the ways in which they use their knowledge and skills to develop, modify and adapt the techniqu...
The study of ecotourism impacts and their management offers many opportunities to reflect on the importance of sustainability and the possibilities of implementing approaches which move us in a new direction.
Sustainability, then, is about the struggle for diversity in all its dimensions. The concern for biodiversity, in its broadest sense, encompa...
The 2010 Federation Internationale de Football (FIFA) World Cup to be hosted in South Africa is expected to provide an opportunity
to further the country’s objectives of using sporting events to signal international recognition and promote socio-economic
development. Studies on sport tourism events tend to focus on economic impacts and neglect soci...
Student field courses at Universities are increasingly incorporating problem-based interdisciplinary approaches to enhance learning opportunities. This paper reports upon seven field-based, problem-oriented, interdisciplinary courses held within southern Africa concerning natural resource management and sustainable land use. The SLUSE (Sustainable...
This paper explores an approach to problem-oriented, interdisciplinary field-based courses devised by university consortia in southern Africa and Denmark. The SLUSE (Sustainable Land Use and Natural Resource Management) model has been applied on six three-week field courses within southern Africa and trained over 200 students. Student groups compos...
Sirex noctilio is causing considerable mortality in commercial pine plantations in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The ability to remotely detect variable (for example, low, medium and high) S.noctilio infestation levels remains crucial for monitoring of the actual spread of the disease and for the effective deployment of suppression activities. Altho...
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This article provides an overview of sport tourism generally and investigates the sport tourism policy in the South African context. The discussion draws upon South Africa's unique context and international experiences to provide guidelines for the development of a national sport tourism strategy. In particular, the opportunities presented by the h...
The Eurasian woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, causes considerable tree mortality in commercial pine plantations in southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Broad-scale visual assessments of infestation provided by forest managers are currently used to measure forest health and vitality. The effectiveness of visual assessments is questionable because they are...
This article contributes to a greater understanding of the linkages between women's roles, responsibilities and their use
of technology in poor rural communities. The ways in which poor rural women conceptualize technology is examined. Furthermore,
how they use their knowledge and skills to develop, modify and adapt the techniques and technical pro...
Research on how the decision to bid for the Olympics is made, the resources and processes involved in the bidding process and how a country responds to a failed bid is important. These aspects are embedded in a range of political and economic processes from the local to the global level. The Olympic Games is the ultimate mega-event. This article us...
A case study of sport tourism initiatives undertaken in Durban is provided to describe some of the challenges of conducting socioeconomic impact research in a transforming South Africa. Based on analyses of socioeconomic data of seven sport tourism events held in the last year and supported by the Durban Events Corporation (DEC), key findings and i...
The research team presents the findings of a comprehensive investigation into the status and role of Geography as an academic discipline in South Africa. The paper begins by placing the discipline in historical and epistemological context. Extensive and intensive interviews were conducted with geographers at all South African universities and, on a...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges and opportunities facing gender geography generally and the specific concerns relating to asserting the need for gender geography in South Africa. The issues of interest are mainly two: Why is it important to engender geography thinking and research in South Africa? What are the current trends...
Using a case study in KwaZulu-Natal, URMILLA BOB argues that the land reform programme in South Africa has failed to integrate food security concerns and the needs of rural women
One of the greatest challenges facing a transforming South Africa is the effective integration of the former homelands into the social, economic and political fabric of the rest of the country. In recent years, increasing policies and programmes are aimed at addressing the challenges faced by rural communities located in the former homelands. Howev...
This contribution does not set out to make a complete survey of geographical education in South Africa but attempts to provide a gender critique of geographical education at the school and tertiary levels. More specifically, the school level geography curriculum and the envisaged Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) systems are examined. The intention is...
This contribution does not set out to make a complete survey of geographical education in South Africa but attempts to provide a gender critique of geographical education at the school and tertiary levels. More specifically, the school level geography curriculum and the envisaged Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) systems are examined. The intention is...
Sport events are used more and more in both developing and developed contexts to promote development (especially economic growth), enhance social cohesion and healthy lifestyles and profile locations as tourist destinations. Associated with an increased number of sport events and academic interest is greater focus on legacies, that is, what are the...
Typescript. Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-130).
System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. Mode of access: Available through the Internet. Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 272 p. : ill., maps. Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 1999. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-236).
More than a decade after its initial discovery in the Western Cape, the Eurasian woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, has spread to the southern parts of KwaZulu-Natal posing a serious threat to pine species in the region. Whilst foresters are able to provide broad scale assessments of S. noctilio infestation, there are no existing frameworks in place to prov...
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Examine the impacts, opportunities and challenges of the tourism industry in South Africa
This study seeks to understand how local communities in the two agricultural camps of Southern Zambia (that might have different scopes of vulnerabilities to agriculture) adapt and benefit from the adaption interventions that fall within the CSA framework, with emphasis on food security, livelihoods and the long-term contribution of CSA to mitigate climate change.
To understand home energy practices, behavior, attitudes and perception. To examine the impacts of socio-demographic and geographic variables on household energy behaviors. Additionally, to investigate level of awareness, attitude and perceptions towards renewable energy sources and technologies.
