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31. Transforming South Africa’s biodiversity into diesel

Maharajh, D, Harilal, A,

The continuous use of fossil fuels is environmentally harmful and unsustainable. Concerns about energy supply, environmental pollution and global warming have triggered the worldwide search for source...

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32. Housing / Human Settlements Atlas series: continued support towards more sustainable human settlements

Goss, H, Busgeeth, K, le Roux, A,

The National Department of Human Settlements has contracted the CSIR Built Environment Unit in the development of the Human Settlements Atlas (previously Housing Atlas) series. The overall aim of the ...

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33. Innovative technologies to accurately model waves and moored ship motions

van der Molen, W, Rossouw, M, Phelp, D, Tulsi, K, Terblanche, L,

Late in 2009 CSIR Built Environment in Stellenbosch was awarded a contract to carry out extensive physical and numerical modelling to study the wave conditions and associated moored ship motions, for ...

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34. New technology for improving entry examination, thereby managing the rockfall risk in South African gold and platinum mines

Vogt, D, Brink, VZ, Brink, S, Price, M, Kagezi, B,

Rockfalls are responsible for more than 30 percent of the fatalities on South African gold and platinum mines, with associated costs and lost productivity. One of the most important activities in the ...

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35. Can SA afford to continue polluting its water resources? – With special reference to water pollution in two important catchment areas

Roux, S, Oelofse, S, de Lange, W,

The reuse potential of industrial, agricultural and domestic return flows in any region is directly dependent on the quality of treatment processes and the intended reuse applications. Although the di...

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36. CSIR optronic scene simulator finds real application in self-protection mechanisms of the South African Air Force

Willers, CJ, Delport, JP, Willers, MS,

The Optronic Scene Simulator (OSSIM) is a second-generation scene simulator that creates synthetic images of arbitrary complex scenes in the visual and infrared (IR) bands, covering the 0.2 to 20 μm s...

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37. Using the Systems approach to understand the causes and dynamics of urban food insecurity: a case study of Chitungwiza Zimbabwe

Murambadoro, M,

Food security research and policy have focused more on the rural poor where the incidence and depth of poverty is more pronounced. However the number of people living in urban areas is increasing and ...

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38. Challenges and advances in genetically improving trees for the plantation forestry sector

Verryn, SD, Snedden, CL,

This presentation outlines the South African plantation forestry sector and its contributions and improvement in productivity, acquiring genetic diversity, challenges and advances in genetically impro...

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39. Are indigenous sedges useful for phytoremediation and wetland rehabilitation?

Schachtschneider, K, Muasya, M, Somerset, V,

Toxic metal pollution is a side effect associated with mining (van der Merwe et al., 1990), sewage pollution (Muchuweti et al., 2006) and agricultural practices (Jadia and Fulekar, 2009). South Africa...

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40. Reducing the environmental impacts of energy use by automobiles: Selected future options for South Africa

Mapako, M,

The transport sector is the major consumer of liquid petroleum fuels, and a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. It had been estimated to contribute 11% of total national greenhouse gas emissions...

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