Author:Nobre, AM; Musango, JK; de Wit, MP; Ferreira, JGDate:Feb 2008The objective of this report is to conceptualize ecological and economic interactions in mariculture; to implement a dynamic ecological-economic model in order to: simulate the socio-economics of aquaculture production, simulate its effects ...Read more
Author:Ramoelo, Abel; Munyati, C; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Le Maitre, David C; Van Aardt, JDate:Sep 2007Land degradation is of great concern in South Africa particularly in the Inkomati catchment. Here a mosaic of different land use types such as plantation agriculture, subsistence farming, irrigated commercial farming, rural and urban settlements, ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Strohbach, MDate:Jul 2009Detection and quantification of degradation processes as a first step for understanding and development of prevention and mitigation actions is of international interest as the described processes are observed in semi-arid landscapes globally. ...Read more
Author:King, J; Pienaar, HarrisonDate:Sep 2011Water resources provide important benefits to humankind in the form of commodities such as water and food and by enhancing lives in many other ways. In South Africa, a water-scarce country, we recognise that water resources are under stress ...Read more
Author:Du Plessis, CDate:Sep 2008This paper builds on earlier ecological approaches to urban development, as well as more recent thinking in the fields of sustainability science, resilience thinking and complexity theory, to propose a conceptual framework for understanding ...Read more