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Sustainability principles and EIA report quality in renewable energy projects
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)
The concept of sustainability is the principal objective of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), but the uncertainty that sparks the EIA and sustainability debate has resulted in the EIA process being criticized. The EIA ...
Exploring regional resilience in different urban systems
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)
The majority of the current research on a regional scale is orientated towards individual cities and not on an urban system as a whole and this type of approach neglects the critical influences of urban systems, especially ...
Renewable energy development for South Africa : a regional planning approach
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)
Since the mid-1990s there has been growing consensus around the world that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions derived from burning fossil fuels for energy generation purposes (among others) are contributing to climate change, ...
Analysis of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) diversity towards improved yield
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)
A considerable set of underutilized crops perform better than their more accepted counterparts when cultivated in less nutritive soils and grossly unfavorable environmental conditions. This advantage necessitates the ...
Environmental impact assessment in South Africa - what difference can a sustainability assessment make?
(North-West University, 2018)
Sustainability is a concept that has the objective of dealing with the immediate and future ‘needs’ of society while attempting to take the ‘limitations’ imposed by the ecological damage into account. The term sustainability ...
An investigation into the incorporation of sustainability principles in the Environmental Management Programme and Social and Labour Plan for a gold mine, South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)
Sustainable development in gold mining is crucial to ensure that resources are extracted in a responsible manner to the benefit of the environment, society, the economy and all other integral factors that affect sustainability ...
Successful cities are based on successful neighbourhoods : a strategic and modelling approach to sustainable integrated neighbourhood development
(North-West University (South Africa), 2016)
South Africa’s urban areas’ spatial setting and fabric reflects the consequences of fragmented spatial systems. The evaluation of spatial variables between the city core neighbourhoods and township neighbourhoods reveals ...
Sustaining livability and a sense of place in a changing South African urban context : an environmental management pilot case study
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2018)
This is a pilot study based on qualitative case research that was undertaken to identify methods and procedures that could lead to a greater understanding of the role played by sense of place in sustaining livability in ...
Commercial development of smaller towns : a comparative study of the planning and legislative principles for shopping centres in Bethlehem
(2013)
The general body of academic knowledge on the commercial development of smaller towns is in its infancy. Yet its inherent potential is well perceived from a development and market perspective. Shopping centre development ...
The dynamics of certain grass species used during the restoration of degraded semi-arid rangelands
(North-West University (South Africa), 2001)
Addressing desertification in South Africa requires the restoration of degraded
land, particularly degraded pasture. Enhanced (coated) and untreated seed of
four palatable, perennial grass species and one semi-perennial ...