Urban areas in South Africa—Final frontier for Ecology?doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2010.02.003S.S. CilliersSouth African Journal of Botany
The past two decades have seen the development of a rich body of scholarship focusing on South African urban settlements. An extensive narrative has emerged on the changing spatialities of the broader urban system, but the representation of South African urban areas remains surprisingly incomplete. ...
A purposive convenient sample of 353 participants (0.6%) was drawn from a population of 63 004 economically-active people who lived in the residential areas as defined for the purpose of the study. All social classes were represented. The hypothesis set was that there is a positive relationship...
More maps:Africa|Asia|Central America & the Caribbean|Europe|Middle East|North America|Oceania|South America|World| Statistical Concept and Methodology:The Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1) urban extent grid distinguishes urban and rural areas based on a combination of populatio...
Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to have nearly 670 million people living in urban areas by 2030 (United Nations, 2019). This rapid urbanization comes with an increased demand for food, water, energy, sanitation and urban services. Access to food is particularly critical, as many families in Af...
ActionAid carried out participatory vulnerability analysis (PVA) with people living in vulnerable areas of six capital cities (East Africa: Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda); West Africa: Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana), Freetown (... ActionAid - 《Actionaid International》 被引量: 7发表: 2007...
We used 10 years of crime statistics in South Africa,finding that greener areas had lower rates of both violent and property crimes. When tree cover was considered specifically, a more mixed picture was revealed, where property crimes were more with more tree cover, but violent crimes were ...
Since such policies were mainly urban biased in nature it not only failed in most cases but also in some instance exacerbated the situation by stimulating more rural-urban migration. Rural-urban migration occurs where there is economic disparity between rural and urban areas. Some economists ...
This paper explores in some detail urban areas as the place of origin of fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the paper are two-fold. First,we provide an overview of the role of urban areas in reproductive change by examining recent data on levels and trends of fert...
In essence, his analysis was based on the stylized fact that urban inequality is higher than rural inequality. Consequently, as increasing number of residents migrate from the low-inequality countryside to the high-inequality urban areas, national inequality, defined as the weighted average of urban...