Browsing Book Chapters by Subject "Climate change"

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Adaptation and mitigation: synergies and trade-offs

Author: Thambiran, Tirusha ; Naidoo, Sasha Date: Oct 2017 Typically, mitigation and adaptation research has been developed separately, with the mitigation research community focused on taking a global approach to limiting cumulative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The adaptation research community, ... Read more
Adapting to global change in a diverse landscape: the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve

Author: Davis, C ; Archer, Emma RM ; Maserumule, R ; Stevens, N ; Sinden, LA Date: Apr 2010 This study will draw on the findings of a significant amount of research that has already taken place in the area. There is a keen desire amongst diverse stakeholders to access global change information (for example, the use of such information ... Read more
Agriculture and livestock

Author: Lötter, Johanna M Date: Oct 2017 The agricultural sector in southern Africa needs to produce enough food to feed its current population of 277 million and future predicted population of over 300 million by 2025 (United Nations ESA, 2015). All of this must happen within the ... Read more
An alternative rainwater harvesting system design methodology

Author: Gibberd, Jeremy T Date: Dec 2020 Climate change and rapid urbanisation have meant there is increasing pressure on water supplies in human settlements in South Africa. This has led to unreliable water supplies and outages. It is therefore important to understand whether there ... Read more
Building resilient human settlements in a climate of change

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Feb 2012 The main purpose of this chapter is to 1) note the impacts of climate change on human settlements and vice versa, and 2) propose design and institutional strategies to improve the resilience of human settlements to withstand these impacts or ... Read more
Climate change and agriculture

Author: Todorovic, M ; Jovanovic, Nebojsa Date: Apr 2020 Weather represents day-to-day atmospheric condition (e.g. air temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine hours, cloud cover, wind direction and speed, etc.) over a short term at a given place and time. Climate is defined as the ... Read more
Climate change – a critical emerging issue

Author: Archer, Emma RM Date: 2010 Science on observed trends in climate and projected future climate change has evolved substantially in the last few years. Different sub-regions of South Africa have shown, and are likely to continue to show, distinct climate changes. Surface ... Read more
Climate Change: Implications for South African Building Systems and Components

Author: Gibberd, Jeremy T Date: Dec 2017 Despite increasing awareness of climate change, there is little evidence of this being addressed in built environments in South Africa. Events such as flooding in Houston, USA, landslides in Free Town, Sierra Leone, and water shortages in La ... Read more
Commercial forestry

Author: Naidoo, Sasha Date: Oct 2017 Forests in southern Africa are critically important for sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems but are vulnerable to changes in climate, most important being accumulated temperature and moisture deficit, as well as to other external stressors, ... Read more
Dealing with risk

Author: Cull, T ; Vincent, K ; Davis, C ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Nov 2011 This chapter is concerned with how we can respond to climate change in order to reduce its adverse impacts. Following international practice, these responses can broadly be grouped into mitigation (reduction in the causes of climate change) ... Read more
Detecting inter-annual variability in the phenological characteristics of southern Africa’s vegetation using satellite imagery

Author: Wessels, Konrad J ; Steenkamp, Karen C ; Von Maltitz, Graham P ; Archibald, S Date: 2011 Vegetation phenology refers to the timing of seasonal biological events (for example, bud burst, leaf unfolding, vegetation growth and leaf senescence) and biotic and abiotic forces that control these. Daily, coarse-resolution satellite imagery ... Read more
Disaster management and risk reduction in South Africa

Author: Bruwer, A ; Van Staden, M ; Le Roux, Alize ; Van Niekerk, Cornelia W Date: Dec 2017 The 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction concludes that the mortality and economic loss associated with extensive risks (minor but recurrent disaster risks) in low- and middle-income countries are trending up. In the last ... Read more
Does non-motorised transport and EV culture reduce carbon footprint?

Author: Sediki, Vhonani P Date: Jul 2021 This review aims to answer the question whether Non-Motorised Transport and electric vehicle cultures help reduce carbon footprint related to commuting and whether the provision of infrastructure encourage the culture of walking, running, ... Read more
Environmental benefits of telecommuting - a hypothetical case study

Author: Van Reenen, Coralie A ; Nkosi, Muzi Date: Oct 2020 Vehicle emissions contribute significantly to the greenhouse gas (GHG) content in the earth’s atmosphere, with transportation emissions constituting 24% of the global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (IEA, 2020), contributing to climate change. ... Read more
The Extreme Climate Index (ECI), a tool for monitoring regional extreme events

Author: Malherbe, Johan ; Iyahen, E ; Engelbrecht, Francois A ; Chamunorwa, M ; Helmschrot, J Date: 2018 The Extreme Climate Index (ECI) is an objective, multi-hazard index capable of tracking changes in the frequency or magnitude of extreme weather events in Africa. The index is geared towards identifying broad-scale climate extremes that may ... Read more
Future climate change over Southern Africa

Author: Davis, Claire L ; Engelbrecht, Francois A ; Tadross, M ; Wolski, P ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Oct 2017 This chapter presents key messages drawn from recent subsets of future climate projections for the southern Africa region. Material in this chapter is drawn from Chapter 3 of Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa ... Read more
Gendered vulnerability to climate change in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Author: Vincent, K ; Cull, T ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Oct 2010 It is well-known that women in developing countries tend to be more dependent on natural resources than men, and that female-headed households tend to rely more on agricultural livelihoods than male-headed households. Climate change is projected ... Read more
Human Health

Author: Garland, Rebecca M ; Rother, H Date: Oct 2017 Southern Africa has multiple risks that contribute to the overall burden of disease (i.e. the quadruple burden of disease), which may make people more vulnerable to the health impacts from climate change. In addition, the sector is vulnerable ... Read more
Human settlements

Author: Van Niekerk, Cornelia W ; Le Roux, Alize Date: Sep 2017 This chapter describes some of the key drivers and processes of vulnerability and risks in human settlements in southern Africa that pose considerable challenges, but also opportunities, for climate change adaptation. Data for the whole of ... Read more
Impacts of landuse and climate change on the dynamics and biodiversity in the Thornbush Savanna Biome

Author: Jeltsch, F ; Blaum, N ; Classen, N ; Eschenbach, A ; Grohmann, C ; Gröngröft, A ; Joubert, DF ; Horn, A ; Linsenmair, KE ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Medinski, TV ; Meyfarth, S ; Mills, A ; Petersen, A ; Popp, A ; Poschlod, P ; Reisch, C ; Rossmanith, E ; Rubilar, H ; Schütze, S ; Lohmann, D ; Seymour, C ; Simmons, R ; Smit, GN ; Strohbach, M ; Tews, J ; Tietjen, B ; Wesuls, D ; Wichmann, M ; Wieczorek, M ; Zimmermann, I Date: 2010 In this chapter we summarise results of the long-term interdisciplinary BIOTA study investigating the impacts of landuse and climate change on the dynamics and sustainable use of biodiversity in the Thornbush Savanna Biome of southern Africa. ... Read more

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Browsing Book Chapters by Subject "Climate change"

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