South African geography student teachers should master map skills to teach mapwork effectively in their future classrooms. Spatial cognition, prior learning of map skills and map interpretation at secondary school-level are highlighted as being important in furthering map literacy, which is required by...
Van Niekerk, W., 2013, `Translating disaster resilience into spatial planning practice in South Africa: Challenges and champions', Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies vol. 5, no.1.Van Niekerk, W. 2013. Translating disaster resilience into spatial planning practice in South Africa: Challenges...
Paper presented at the 20th Annual South African Transport Conference 16 - 20 July 2001 "Meeting the transport challenges in Southern Africa", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. A shortage of space forced Dutch planners and policy makers to develop and implement advanced an...
Even as SOUTH Africa marks the two-year anniversary of the Marikana massacre – which marked a decisive turning point for the country's PLATINUM mining sector – extensive new research indicates that the coal mining industry poses a wide range of serious challenges of its own to the country's...
Our provincial barometers and trend plots are novel in that they present comparable environmental and social data on key indicators over time for all South Africa's provinces. They are visual tools that communicate the range of key challenges and risks that provincial governments face, and are non...
This article explores the challenges for dealing with risks from a spatial planning perspective. It points at the role spatial planning can play in mitigating multihazards by influencing urban structures and thus strengthening urban resilience. However, it also shows the limits of spatial planning and...
This paper is a contribution to Imperial College’s Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment initiative. This manuscript has been prepared with support from Arctic Options: Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal Marine Sustainability, with funding from the National Science Foundation, Division ...
Because summer drought occurs in the critical period of crop growth, crop production is greatly affected. Thus, the northern China’s agricultural drought disaster has a relationship with the summer south wind. Analysis the spatial movement of agricultural drought disaster agglomeration regions The ...
This paper describes challenges faced by local and state governmeats ir providing advanced technical irfrastruclure for efficient delivery of public servic... N Jesuale,BC Eydt - IEEE 被引量: 59发表: 2007年 Integrated water resource management in water and sanitation projects: lessons from projec...
Understanding the scale, location and nature conservation values of the lands over which Indigenous Peoples exercise traditional rights is central to implementation of several global conservation and climate agreements. However, spatial information on In