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Walter Musakwa
Researcher at University of Johannesburg
Publications - 61
Citations - 732
Walter Musakwa is an academic researcher from University of Johannesburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban planning & Public transport. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 54 publications receiving 429 citations. Previous affiliations of Walter Musakwa include Stellenbosch University.
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Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data
TL;DR: The outcome of the study suggests that the combination of remote sensing, social sensing, and population data were useful as a proxy/inference for interpreting urban sprawl and status of access to urban services and infrastructure in Morogoro, and Africa city where data for urban planning is often unavailable, inaccurate, or stale.
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Implications of land use change for the sustainability of urban areas: A case study of Stellenbosch, South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the use of earth observation data for supporting sustainable land use planning and showed that the results show that using decision consequence analysis (DCA), consequence analysis, earth observation and land use indicators can aid local planning authorities to assess and monitor urban sustainability.
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How to build science-action partnerships for local land-use planning and management: Lessons from Durban, South Africa
Jessica Cockburn,Mathieu Rouget,Rob Slotow,Debra Roberts,Richard Boon,Errol Douwes,Sean O'Donoghue,Colleen T. Downs,Shomen Mukherjee,Walter Musakwa,Onisimo Mutanga,Tarombera Mwabvu,John Odindi,Alfred Odindo,Şerban Procheş,Syd Ramdhani,Jayanti Ray-Mukherjee,Sershen,M. Corrie Schoeman,Albertus J. Smit,Edilegnaw Wale,Sandi Willows-Munro +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of a partnership between a local municipality and an academic institution to bridge the science-action gap in the eThekwini Municipal Area, South Africa is presented.
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Mapping cycling patterns and trends using Strava Metro data in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa.
TL;DR: The dataset presented in this paper illustrates the spatial and temporal coverage of cycling patterns and trends in Johannesburg for the year 2014 derived from the geolocation based mobile application Strava.
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Past, current, and future perspectives on eco-tourism: a bibliometric review between 2001 and 2018.
TL;DR: A systematic method combining bibliometric analysis and network analysis is applied in this study to uncover the dynamic trends, academic collaboration, and research hotspots related with eco-tourism.