A Century Of Geography At Stellenbosch University 1920 2020

Author : Gustav Visser,Jan de Waal
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781928480754

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A Century of Geography at Stellenbosch University 1920-2020 by Gustav Visser,Jan de Waal Pdf

A Century of Geography at Stellenbosch University 1920-2020 focuses on the establishment and development of geography as an academic discipline at Stellenbosch, South Africa’s founding geography department. The ways in which the department currently operates are deemed fundamentally joined to its past and pave the way for the evolution of geography and its various subdisciplines going forward. The investigation seeks to highlight the development of the discipline and its institutionalisation as part of the academic offerings of the university, while providing details about the teaching and research conducted, as well as of the people who contributed to these endeavours. It also furnishes the academic geography community at Stellenbosch, and geography more broadly, with some insights into its past development and more recent changes, along with a complete bibliography of conducted research.

Author : Gustav Visser,Jan de Waal
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781928480747

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A Century of Geography at Stellenbosch University 1920-2020 by Gustav Visser,Jan de Waal Pdf

A Century of Geography at Stellenbosch University 1920-2020 focuses on the establishment and development of geography as an academic discipline at Stellenbosch, South Africa’s founding geography department. The ways in which the department currently operates are deemed fundamentally joined to its past and pave the way for the evolution of geography and its various subdisciplines going forward. The investigation seeks to highlight the development of the discipline and its institutionalisation as part of the academic offerings of the university, while providing details about the teaching and research conducted, as well as of the people who contributed to these endeavours. It also furnishes the academic geography community at Stellenbosch, and geography more broadly, with some insights into its past development and more recent changes, along with a complete bibliography of conducted research.

Author : W.S. Barnard
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781928357285

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Encountering Adamastor by W.S. Barnard Pdf

The volume of W.S. Barnard is a first in a series of life-histories of the founding geographers in South Africa published by the Centre of Geographical Analysis at Stellenbosch University. Life-histories are reported in five ways: the commendation lauds the winner of an award; the obituary by necessity speaks well of the dead; the brief entry in a dictionary or encyclopedia is highly stylized and constrained by editorial guidelines; in the autobiography the author tells his own story in his own way; and, finally, the biography comes in a range of formats and structures. At the one extreme is the complete life-history, written by a specialist following the historiographical method and based on the critical assessment of primary sources; at the other is the belletristic overview: descriptive, anecdotal, facile and artful.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004498716

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State Law and Legal Positivism by Anonim Pdf

There was a truly global revolution that reflected a Great Divide between ancient and new legal regimes. The volume emphasizes its depth and scale and explores the phenomenon in the contexts of Morocco, Egypt, India, the Ottoman empire, China, and Japan.

Author : Wilhelm Stefanus Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Geography
ISBN : 0797208321

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Conceptions of Geography by Wilhelm Stefanus Barnard Pdf

Author : Cornell University,INSEAD,World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9782381920009

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Global Innovation Index 2020 by Cornell University,INSEAD,World Intellectual Property Organization Pdf

The Global Innovation Index 2020 provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 131 countries and economies around the world. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. The 2020 edition sheds light on the state of innovation financing by investigating the evolution of financing mechanisms for entrepreneurs and other innovators, and by pointing to progress and remaining challenges – including in the context of the economic slowdown induced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis.

Author : Nancy W. Gleason
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811301940

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Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Nancy W. Gleason Pdf

This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ways in which different higher education institutions and education stakeholders are implementing adaptations, it looks at new programs and technological advances that are changing how and why we teach and learn. The book addresses trends in liberal arts integration of STEM innovations, the changing role of libraries in the digital age, global trends in youth mobility, and the development of lifelong learning programs. This is coupled with case study assessments of the various ways China, Singapore, South Africa and Costa Rica are preparing their populations for significant shifts in labour market demands – shifts that are already underway. Offering examples of new frameworks in which collaboration between government, industry, and higher education institutions can prevent lagging behind in this fast changing environment, this book is a key read for anyone wanting to understand how the world should respond to the radical technological shifts underway on the frontline of higher education.

Author : Ronnie Donaldson
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781991201003

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Human Geographies of Stellenbosch by Ronnie Donaldson Pdf

Amid a growing ‘turn’ towards Southern cities, South African urban geographers continue to remind us why and how to attend to local context and draw on theory from elsewhere. Human Geographies of Stellenbosch: Transforming Space, Preserving Place? (edited by Ronnie Donaldson) provides a deep look at crucial questions facing one of South Africa’s most well-known town-cities. Written from years of local knowledge by scholars at Stellenbosch University, this volume asks what urban transformation means, who it is for, and the politically tantalising question of whether and how we might hold on to some of the old while aspiring towards the new? In a global context in which we are all searching for how to justly remember our messy past, how to decolonise and hold onto what makes places unique, this volume will be of interest to scholars asking such questions in and beyond urban studies.

Author : Ivor Wilkins,Hans Strydom
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781868425365

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The Super-Afrikaners by Ivor Wilkins,Hans Strydom Pdf

The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in South Africa in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of a powerful Afrikaner organisation called the Broederbond. Out of print for over three decades, this new edition is available for a new generation and includes an introduction by Max du Preez. Formed in Johannesburg in 1918 by a group of young Afrikaners disillusioned by their role as dispossessed people in their own country, the first triumph of this remarkable organisation was the fact that it was largely responsible for welding together dissident factions within Afrikanerdom and thereby ensuring the accession of the National Party to power in 1948. This highly organised clique of Super-Afrikaners, by sophisticated political intrigue, waged a remarkable campaign to harness political, social and economic forces in South Africa to its cause ... and succeeded. Political journalists Hans Strydom and Ivor Wilkins traced, at great personal risk, its development from its earliest days. The book includes the most comprehensive list of Broeders ever published.

Author : João Mascarenhas-Mateus,Ana Paula Pires
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1535 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000468786

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History of Construction Cultures Volume 1 by João Mascarenhas-Mateus,Ana Paula Pires Pdf

History of Construction Cultures Volume 1 contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. The conference has been organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture (FAUL), NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Portuguese Society for Construction History Studies and the University of the Azores. The contributions cover the wide interdisciplinary spectrum of Construction History and consist on the most recent advances in theory and practical case studies analysis, following themes such as: - epistemological issues; - building actors; - building materials; - building machines, tools and equipment; - construction processes; - building services and techniques ; -structural theory and analysis ; - political, social and economic aspects; - knowledge transfer and cultural translation of construction cultures. Furthermore, papers presented at thematic sessions aim at covering important problematics, historical periods and different regions of the globe, opening new directions for Construction History research. We are what we build and how we build; thus, the study of Construction History is now more than ever at the centre of current debates as to the shape of a sustainable future for humankind. Therefore, History of Construction Cultures is a critical and indispensable work to expand our understanding of the ways in which everyday building activities have been perceived and experienced in different cultures, from ancient times to our century and all over the world.

Author : Gonçalo Vieira,Zêzere José Luís
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319036424

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Landforms and Landscapes of Portugal by Gonçalo Vieira,Zêzere José Luís Pdf

The book brings together contributions from over 35 Portuguese geomorphologists, presenting a thorough overview of the main highlights of the landscape of Portugal's mainland, Azores and Madeira. The book, which is a tribute to Professor António de Brum Ferreira, first President of the Portuguese Association of Geomorphologists and former Professor at the University of Lisbon, who passed away in January 2013, is organized in 3 parts: a) Introduction, which presents a general framework of the physical geography of Portugal, b) Geomorphological landscapes, presenting ca. 30 short papers with regional focus on key geomorphological areas, c) Applied geomorphology, providing an updated vision on the protection of geomorphological heritage with a focus on geoparks, as well as on Geomorphological hazards in Portugal. This first book ever to concentrate on the geomorphology of Portugal will surely become a benchmark for Portuguese geomorphology.

Author : Anthony Arundel,Suma Athreye,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108842792

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Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century by Anthony Arundel,Suma Athreye,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent Pdf

A guide to maximizing the impact of work done at public research institutions and universities to boost innovation and growth.

Author : William Beinart,Saul Dubow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837088

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The Scientific Imagination in South Africa by William Beinart,Saul Dubow Pdf

An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.

Author : Ronnie Donaldson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319680880

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Small Town Tourism in South Africa by Ronnie Donaldson Pdf

This book investigates small town tourism development in South Africa taking into account the most common strategies: branding, promotion, festivals and theming. The contents of the book resonate with the intersection of the power elite and their impacts on small town tourism. Because the book focuses on small town geographies in South Africa, the literature on small town tourism in the country is reviewed in Chapter 2 to provide a contextual background. Each subsequent chapter begins with an overview of international literature to give the conceptual context of the case studies each chapter explores. In Chapter 3 the concept of small town tourism branding is illustrated by an exploration of the Richmond book town. In Chapter 4 the branding theme is probed further in an investigation of two winners of the Kwêla Town of the Year competition namely Fouriesburg and De Rust. Chapter 5 documents the branding of Sedgefield through its proclamation as Africa’s first Cittaslow (slow town), a process driven by the local power elite to the exclusion of town’s poor who have no understanding of the intentions of the Cittaslow movement and its potential benefits for the town. Chapter 6 is a case study of Greyton’s tourism-led rural gentrification by which a small town has transformed in three decades to become a sought after place of residence for elite inmigrants so making the town a jewel tourism destination while reinforcing racial segregation. Because festivals and events - creations of the wealthy - have made significant financial contributions to small towns, Chapter 7 considers festivals and events as strategies to market and brand small towns in a particular way. Case studies of the economic impacts of festivals on small towns are assessed and the assessment methodologies used are critiqued. Chapter 8 provides a synthesis by drawing on the thesis of the urban growth machine by power elites.

Author : Jasper Knight,Christian M. Rogerson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319949741

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The Geography of South Africa by Jasper Knight,Christian M. Rogerson Pdf

This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to other areas of the Global South. All chapters are original contributions, providing a state of the art research baseline on key themes in physical, human and environmental geography, and in understanding the changing geographical landscapes of modern South Africa. These contributions set the scene for an understanding of the relationships between modern South Africa and the wider contemporary world, including issues of sustainable development and growth in the Global South.