Author:Arabi, Sumaiya; Taljaard, Susan; Weerts, Steven PDate:Mar 2022Globally sustainable environmental practices in ports have been linked to socio-economic benefits. While African ports are increasingly acknowledging environmental issues and starting to address these in environmental policy, many are still ...Read more
Author:Taljaard, Susan; Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, JB; Riddin, TDate:Mar 2023Rapid degradation of ecosystems and loss of ecosystem services have sparked interest in developing approaches to report and integrate such change with socio-economic information systems, such as the System of National Accounts. Here we describe ...Read more
Author:Stein, ED; Gee, EM; Adams, JB; Irving, K; Van Niekerk, LaraDate:Feb 2021The science needed to inform management of environmental flows to temporarily closed estuaries and coastal lagoons is decades behind the state of knowledge for rivers and large embayments. These globally ubiquitous small systems, which are ...Read more
Author:Raw, JL; Van Niekerk, Lara; Chauke, O; Riddin, T; Adams, JBDate:Feb 2023Blue carbon ecosystems (mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses) contribute towards climate change mitigation because they are efficient at sequestering atmospheric CO2 into long-term total ecosystem carbon stocks. Destruction or disturbance ...Read more
Author:Slinger, J; Taljaard, Susan; D'Hont, FDate:Jan 2020This book captures the learning from a cross-comparison of seven international inlet or estuary mouth management situations. The conceptual framing is provided by a focus on systems knowledge and its development and use within coastal management. ...Read more
Author:James, J; Van Niekerk, Lara; Lamberth, SDate:2023Estuaries are shallow coastal environments that are influenced by both tidal action and freshwater inflow. As a result of the mixing of marine and fresh waters, estuaries are naturally dynamic, unstable environments with physico-chemical ...Read more
Author:Taljaard, Susan; Adams, JDate:Sep 2021The UN declared 2021-2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science and identified research and technology priority areas to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. We reviewed the current status of scientific support for coastal management in ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, MelanieDate:May 2022South Africa is nestled between the Atlantic, the Southern and the Indian Ocean. Its coast is about 3000 km long and comprises 300 estuaries. Its coast stretches across three bioclimatic regions, namely the Cool Temperate South-West, a Warm ...Read more
Author:Slinger, J; Taljaard, Susan; D'Hont, FDate:Feb 2020The transdisciplinary research synthesised in this book represents an endeavour by a group of coastal researchers and policy analysts to learn from a cross-comparison of seven international case studies on tidal inlet or estuary mouth management ...Read more
Author:Kupfer, S; Santamaria-Aguilar, S; Pieterse, Amy; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Vafeidis, ATDate:May 2022Recent studies on compound flooding have considered the interaction of storm-tide and fluvial or pluvial flood drivers, whereas the contribution of waves to compound flooding so far has been neglected. In this study, we investigate compound ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, J; Taljaard, Susan; Lamberth, SDate:Jan 2021The Water Research Commission (WRC) has been a staunch and enduring funder of estuarine research in South Africa, with support ranging from identifying research gaps, to the development of dedicated research programs, student advancement, ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, Lara; Taljaard, Susan; Lamberth, SJ; Adams, JB; Weerts, Steven P; MacKay, CFDate:May 2022Globally, the ability of estuaries to sustain functionality and productivity is deteriorating rapidly under ever-increasing anthropogenic pressures. We present a systematic approach to identify, characterise and rank global pressures affecting ...Read more
Author:Raw, JL; Van der Stocken, T; Carroll, D; Harris, LR; Rajkaran, A; Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, JBDate:Nov 2022Latitudinal range limits for mangroves on high-energy, wave-dominated coasts are controlled by geomorphological features and estuarine dynamics. Mangroves reach a southern global range limit along the South African coastline, but the distribution ...Read more
Author:Lemley, DA; Lamberth, SJ; Manuel, W; Nunes, M; Rishworth, GM; Van Niekerk, Lara; Adams, JBDate:Jun 2021Increased nutrient loading associated with rapid population growth is the leading cause of deteriorating water quality in urbanized estuaries globally. Small estuaries are particularly sensitive to changes when connection with the marine ...Read more
Author:Smith, Marie EDate:Oct 2022Presentation on the environmental overview, Earth Observation Product Development and National and regional initiatives supporting fisheries-National Oceans and Coastal Information Management System (OCIMS)-Marine and Coastal Operations for ...Read more
Author:Lain, Elisabeth J; Smith, Marie EDate:Nov 2021Aquaculture in South Africa is really taking off, with around 230 farms countrywide, cultivating a wide variety of fish and shellfish species. Most of these are freshwater farms, and it is the freshwater sector that is indeed growing the ...Read more
Author:Williams, LL; Lück-Vogel, MelanieDate:Oct 2022This study determines input data appropriateness for geographic information system-based enhanced bathtub model (eBTM) modeling of coastal inundation in an urban setting. Various tests were conducted concerning digital surface models (DSMs) ...Read more