Browsing by Subject "Ecosystem"
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Artisanal small-scale mining: Potential ecological disaster in Mzingwane District, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)Artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) has devastating impacts on the environment, such as deforestation, over-stripping of overburden, burning of bushes and use of harmful chemicals like mercury. These environmental impacts ... -
Assessing ecosystem services in the Fafung community of the North West Province, South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Fafung is a deep rural community in South Africa’s North West Province that borders on the Borakalalo Nature Reserve. As with many communities of its kind, Fafung faces several needs and challenges such as unemployment, ... -
Framework for e-governance to improve service delivery for local authorities in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)E-governance is the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by the public sector with the aim of improving information and service delivery, encouraging citizen participation in the decision-making process ... -
Investigating the challenges of sustainable rehabilitation by selected mining companies in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)This study determined the most important environmental rehabilitation challenges that mining houses and mining contractors are faced with today in order to maintain positive production results for stake - and shareholders ... -
Protecting ecosystems by way of biological control: cursory reflections on the main regulatory instruments for biological control agents, present and future
(2013)Although there are numerous threats to ecosystems and the resultant ecosystem services, alien and invasive plants (AIP) have been identified as being one of the major causes of ecosystem destruction. In addressing the ... -
Towards a Model for Wetland Rehabilitation in South Eastern Zimbabwe
(North-West University (South Africa), 2018)The rehabilitation of degraded wetlands is a very costly approach owing to the goals, options and funding as well as the involvement of different stakeholders and their different interests. This study investigated the ...