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Planning and Arun's (not so straight and narrow) roads
(2016)Arun Property Development (Pty) Ltd wished to subdivide portions of the farm Langeberg 311, Durbanville. The 1988 structure plan for the area had indicated that certain roads would traverse the property. These and other ... -
The planning and development of child-friendly green spaces in urban South Africa
(North-West University, 2014)The impact that urban green spaces in urban environments have on the sustainability and quality of life of the residents is phenomenal (Atiqul & Shah, 2011:601; UrbSpace, 2010; Levent et al, 2004:1). The local reality in ... -
Planning and macrostructural elements for a multilingual culinary dictionary of Gabonese languages
(Buro Van Die Wat, 2015)This paper is an account of an ongoing dictionary project. It aims to outline the main features of the planned dictionary. The project is a first of its kind in Gabonese lexicography. The current paper gives a description ... -
Planning and organising challenges in the management of universal primary education: experiences in Uganda
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Planning child-friendly spaces for rural areas in South Africa : the Vaalharts case study
(North-West University, 2014)Child-friendly spaces are not successfully implemented in South Africa due to problems such as urbanization, development pressure, lack of qualitative open spaces and lack of policy and legislation guiding the planning and ... -
Planning educational reforms in Bophuthatswana : an evaluation
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1992)This study is concerned with the bold attempt by the government of the new Republic of Bophuthatswana to reform the entire educational system to be in line with the identified needs and noble aspirations of the new ... -
Planning for a resilient peripheral region : a regional policy approach
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2018)The impact of global and national market shifts, together with continuous migration trends and resource shortages are identified as detrimental to the optimal functioning of the peripheral region. This research study ... -
Planning for sustainable communities : place-making through layout and design approaches
(North-West University, 2014)The survival and quality of life of people are irrefutably dependent on the natural environment in which they live. In order to ensure that the basic needs of man are consistently satisfactorily met in the long-term, the ... -
Planning for the future of urban biodiversity: a global review of city-scale initiatives
(AIBS, 2017)Cities represent considerable opportunities for forwarding global biodiversity and sustainability goals. We developed key attributes for conserving biodiversity and for ecosystem services that should be included in ... -
Planning for walkable cities in South Africa : Marabastad, Kroonstad as a case study
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)This dissertation aims to explore how spatial planning interventions can be used to enhance or create walkability of South African low-income cities. South African cities face unique challenges as they are fragmented due ... -
Planning in all its (dis)guises: spheres of government, functional areas and authority
(2012)The Constitution determines that the legislative and executive powers regarding 'regional planning and development', 'urban and rural development', 'provincial planning' and 'municipal planning' are divided among the ... -
Planning sustainable cities through nature-based solutions : perspectives from the Global South
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)This research considers nature-based solutions as part of the broader sustainability agenda, as perceived from a Global South perspective. Such considerations emanate from a global phenomenon of urban areas experiencing ... -
Planning the intangible : place attachment and public participation in South African town planning
(2015)Local opposition to town planning applications creates time delays for developers, town planners, and municipal authorities, while also increasing financial costs associated with development. For local communities, opposition ... -
Plant and arthropod diversity of maize agro–ecosystems in the Highveld and Lowveld regions of South Africa
(North-West University, 2011)Surveys of plant and selected insect species was conducted in Highveld and Lowveld agro–ecosystems of four provinces of South Africa, namely North–West, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu–Natal and Limpopo. The objectives of the study ... -
Plant and arthropod diversity patterns of maize agro-ecosystems in two grassy biomes of South Africa
(Springer, 2015)Intensive, large-scale cultivation has led to a postulated decrease in biodiversity worldwide, which has been ascribed to fragmentation and degradation of natural habitat bordering crop fields. Maize is the most widely ... -
Plant diversity patterns of a settlement in the North–West Province, South Africa
(North-West University, 2009)In recent years the composition of urban vegetation has become far more complex than that of the surrounding natural vegetation. This is mainly due to the influence that humans have on the creation of new plant communities ... -
Plant diversity patterns of domestic gardens in five settlements of South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2017)As urbanisation increases globally, domestic gardens are becoming increasingly important in terms of ecosystem service provisioning, biodiversity conservation and human health and wellbeing. Individually gardens are ... -
Plant endemism in Griqualand West, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2019)Griqualand West, a region in the semi-arid Northern Cape and North-West provinces of South Africa, has been variously suggested to contain a number of range-restricted plant species, and was proposed to be a local centre ... -
Plant functional types differ between the grassland and savanna biomes along an agro-ecosystem disturbance gradient in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)Intensive, large-scale cultivation of food crops has led to major biodiversity loss worldwide due to fragmentation and degradation of remnant semi-natural habitat within agro-ecosystems. The response of vegetation to these ... -
Plant growth promotion by Bradyrhizobium japonicum under heavy metal stress
(Elsevier, 2016)The increase in usage of heavy metals in different industrial activities causes their existence in effluents. Excessive concentrations of these heavy metals pollute soil and water. Heavy metals cause toxicities and other ...
