To analyze mechanisms controlling inter-district migration flows in South Africa and predict migration flows with higher accuracy, the study uses a a network model, the additive and multiplicative effects model for network (AMEN).
The Afromontane Research Unit (ARU) has established an inter-and trans-disciplinary research project titled: “Migration in the Afromontane”: Exploring intersections with entrepreneurship in QwaQwa, Free State, South Africa. The study will feed into a wider collaborative research programme between the University of the Free State, QwaQwa Campus, and Japan’s Akita International University, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Global Studies Program, which aims to establish a sustainability science hub on the QwaQwa campus.
Using a high-resolution downscaled climate change projections under Representative Concentration (RCP) 8.5, the study aim is to investigate current and projected future heat risk, expressed as a heat stress exposure index using high-resolution climate change projections, and a social vulnerability index, to identify areas of potential future heat stress risk in the Durban (eThekwini) metropolitan area, South Africa.
This is a multi-sited study aimed to explore the relationship that Xhosa-speaking migrants have who journey between Centane in the former Transkei homeland and Cape Town, with their family home (ekhayeni) .
This paper aims to contribute to broader theoretical knowledge on urban vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change and rapid urbanization, by applying participatory modelling techniques to a particular case study of an informal settlement in Durban, South Africa.
Wits Demography and Population Studies Programme, an interdisciplinary initiative of the Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, invites highly motivated early career individuals to apply for Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on New Methods for Understanding African Demography and Family Transition Research.
Applications will be open until the positions are filled.
The authors mathematically proced and empirically demonstrated that scrambling of GPS locations leads to a systematic overestimation of the average distance between households and other points of interest at the population level for descriptive purposes.
In this study the authors aim to determine the effects of urbanisation and associated management practices on fine-scale biophysical landscape function of urban and exurban grassland fragments, as well as to determine the potential for the use of Landscape Function Analysis (LFA) in decision-making involving the conservation of grassland fragments.
