Creating a High-Resolution Social Vulnerability Map in Support of National Decision Makers in South Africa

2015 ◽  
pp. 283-294
Author(s):  
Alize le Roux ◽  
Sibusisiwe Khuluse ◽  
Andreas J. S. Naude
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Vulnerability Map

scholarly journals Levinas, Social Vulnerability, and the Logic of South African Racism

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Robert Bernasconi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor White ◽  
The Way

The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was at the forefront of the promotion of the idea of vulnerability in philosophy. For Levinas, my primary vulnerability concerns not my pain, but my pain at the other’s pain. Vulnerablity also has an ambiguous character in so far as it is not easily separated from my self-absorption in enjoyment. In this paper I show how Levinas’s account can illuminate the way that the idea of vulnerability sometimes operates within racist societies to maintain existing divisions. In particular I focus on the Carnegie Commission’s 1932 study The Poor White Problem in South Africa where concern for the vulnerability of poor whites concealed a tendency to naturalize the vulnerability of South African Blacks. Keywords: Carnegie commission, poor whites, racism, vulnerability, Emmanuel Levinas,South Africa

Africa

2010 ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
Lucy E.P. Scott ◽  
Greg Reed
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
United Nations Environment Program ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
Coastal Resource ◽  
Oceanographic Data ◽  
Nations Environment

The African Marine Atlas, launched in 2007, is an online resource that provides maps, images, data and information that can be used by scientists, students, coastal resource managers, planners and decision makers from institutions and specialized agencies across Africa. The ODINAFRICA Project, funded by the Flanders Government and the IOC/UNESCO, initiated and supported the African Marine Atlas Project from the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, Belgium. Regional partners were the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Program (ACEP) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). A team of 16 marine scientists and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialists from National Oceanographic Data Centers (NODCs) in Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, and Tanzania participated in the design and development of the atlas. The African Marine Atlas, which is now a member of the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN), may be found online at http://www.africanmarineatlas.net.

The Significance of Erosion Channels on Gold Metallogeny in the Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa): Evidence from the Carbon Leader Reef in the Carletonville Gold Field

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Nwaila ◽  
J. E. Bourdeau ◽  
Z. Jinnah ◽  
H. E. Frimmel ◽  
G. M. Bybee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Mass Balance ◽  
Closed System ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Sediment Load ◽  
Witwatersrand Basin ◽  
Petrographic Analyses ◽  
Group A

Abstract Within the eastern portion of the Carletonville gold field, the gold- and uranium-rich Carbon Leader reef of the Central Rand Group (Witwatersrand Supergroup) is truncated by an erosion channel. This channel is asymmetrical and lenticular in shape, measuring 150 to 180 m in width and up to 100 m in depth. High-resolution seismic data show that the erosion channel cuts from the Carbon Leader reef into all older units of the Central Rand Group down to the Roodepoort Formation of the underlying West Rand Group. A total of seven bore-holes were drilled into the channel, revealing that it is composed of quartzite at its base (9 m thick), overlain by deformed (lower) and laminated (upper) chloritoid-bearing shale (21 m thick) and quartzite (18 m thick). The Carbon Leader reef is highly enriched in gold (5–40 g/t Au), whereas the gold tenor of the erosion channel fill is in general much lower (<1 g/t Au), although locally grades of as much as 3.8 g/t Au are reached. Detailed seismic, sedimentological, and petrographic analyses revealed that the channel was filled with locally sourced sediments from the Main Formation. A closed-system mass balance further demonstrates that gold in the erosion channel could have been entirely sourced from the Carbon Leader reef. Sediment load played a crucial role in the distribution of gold in the channel, thus supporting a stratigraphically controlled modified placer model for the origin of gold in the Carbon Leader reef.

scholarly journals South African and Singaporean exporters: Their attitudes, information sources and export problems

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Burgess ◽  
Nicola Oldenboom
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Managerial Leadership ◽  
Export Behaviour ◽  
Secondary Information

South Africa's emergence from years of political and regulatory trade barriers has focussed attention on South African exporters. In a replication of Elliot Krasnostein's study of 54 Singaporean exporters, the perceptions, attitudes and characteristics of a representative sample of 321 experienced South African exporters and their decision makers were investigated. Consistent with other international studies, the results suggest that managerial, organizational and environmental forces and perceptions motivate export behaviour. However, South African firms clearly are responding to unique situational factors and national export resources as well. The findings indicate that managerial leadership, supportive attitudes and extensive exporting experience are widely available in South Africa. Secondary information sources could be improved and freight costs reduced to improve South African export effectiveness.

scholarly journals Improving AfriPop dataset with settlement extents extracted from RapidEye for the border region comprising South-Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Deleu ◽  
Jonas Franke ◽  
Michael Gebreslasie ◽  
Catherine Linard
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Malaria Incidence ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Land Use Classification ◽  
Population Growth Rates ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Satellite Sensors

For modelling the spatial distribution of malaria incidence, accurate and detailed information on population size and distribution are of significant importance. Different, global, spatial, standard datasets of population distribution have been developed and are widely used. However, most of them are not up-to-date and the low spatial resolution of the input census data has limitations for contemporary, national- scale analyses. The AfriPop project, launched in July 2009, was initiated with the aim of producing detailed, contemporary and easily updatable population distribution datasets for the whole of Africa. High-resolution satellite sensors can help to further improve this dataset through the generation of high-resolution settlement layers at greater spatial details. In the present study, the settlement extents included in the MALAREO land use classification were used to generate an enhanced and updated version of the AfriPop dataset for the study area covering southern Mozambique, eastern Swaziland and the malarious part of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Results show that it is possible to easily produce a detailed and updated population distribution dataset applying the AfriPop modelling approach with the use of high-resolution settlement layers and population growth rates. The 2007 and 2011 population datasets are freely available as a product of the MALAREO project and can be downloaded from the project website.

A 3000-year high-resolution stalagmitebased record of palaeoclimate for northeastern South Africa

The Holocene ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Holmgren ◽  
W. Karlén ◽  
S. E. Lauritzen ◽  
J. A. Lee-Thorp ◽  
T. C. Partridge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
High Resolution
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