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Economics of natural resources and the environment

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es802190h

What lies beneath.

ii KEY TERMS iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv DECLARATION v LIST OF TABLES, DIAGRAMS AND EQUATION vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 01 1.

An analysis of public perception towards consuming genetically modified crops and the acceptance of modern agricultural biotechnology: a South African case study

In southern Africa, the connections between climate and the water–energy–food nexus are strong. Physical and socioeconomic exposure to climate is high in many areas and in crucial economic sectors. Spatial interdependence is also high, driven, for example, by the regional extent of many climate anomalies and river basins and aquifers that span national boundaries. There is now strong evidence of the effects of individual climate anomalies, but associations between national rainfall and gross domestic product and crop production remain relatively weak. The majority of climate models project decreases in annual precipitation for southern Africa, typically by as much as 20% by the 2080s. Impact models suggest these changes would propagate into reduced water availability and crop yields. Recognition of spatial and sectoral interdependencies should inform policies, institutions and investments for enhancing water, energy and food security. Three key political and economic instruments could be strengthened for this purpose: the Southern African Development Community, the Southern African Power Pool and trade of agricultural products amounting to significant transfers of embedded water.

Climate and Southern Africa's Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Review of African Socialism or Socialist Africa? by A. M. Babu. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

The Future of Africa

Climate change learning in an electricity utility: distribution division case study, Eskom, South Africa.

With documented declines in the biophysical state of the planet, there is an increasing need to develop good environmental management tools to measure sustainability. Some of the traditional environmental management tools that are currently in use, such as Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) do not adequately quantify sustainability for large events such as conferences, rock concerts and sporting events. In this research, Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) is considered as a tool for assessing the sustainability of a large event, viz. the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The WSSD, a follow-up to the 1992 United Nations' Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), was held from 26 August to 4 September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the largest event of its kind in the world, with 80 635 registered' (mostly international) delegates

Poobalan Troy. Govender

Papers

Climate change learning in an electricity utility: distribution division case study, Eskom, South Africa.

Assessment of the ecological footprint of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.