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A comparative analysis of frontier settlement in the Cape Province, South Africa, and Southern Ontario, Canada
  • Settlement location decisions in a frontier region reflect both the economic and cultural variables. Distance and environmental quality are two economic variables and both are also appropriate in analyses of migration and of economic change
Environmental planning, administration and management in Nigerian cities : the example of Benin City, Bendel State
  • The environmental problems of Benin arise from unplanned land use, and weak development control. A holistic approach is necessary involving both the chiefs and the ordinary citizen. - (EMS)
The inheritance of Apartheid planning in South Africa
  • Examines the problems of planning for Apartheid in South Africa in both the rural and urban areas, with pointers to change in a post-Apartheid society. - (AJC)
The development of vegetation on the Winterberg escarpment
  • The vegetation changes during the later Quaternary of the Winterberg escarpment area are presented. It is shown that both climatic change and human-induced change have been important influences on the development of plant communities in the region.
Public policy and the dynamics of urban settlement system in Nigeria
  • The high growth rate of urban population has brought many problems. To solve these, the authors suggest that at both macro-and micro-level governement policy should be combined with public participation. (EMS).
Procedural and interpretational problems concerning the geography of public finance in southern Africa: the case of Harare, Zimbabwe
  • An examination of the models of public finance geography developed in North America reveals their shortcomings in southern Africa on both theoretical and data bases. (AJC).
The progress of rainfall seasons in South Africa
  • Mean data from 200 stations in South Africa have been used to determine month-by-month rainfall changes. From this the progress of both the Summer and Winter rainfall seasons is traced. (W. A. Nieman).
Geography and planning in Nigeria: a presidential address
  • The presidential address of a conference on Geography and Planning held in Nigeria, in which it is made clear that trained Nigerian geographers have a valuable contribution to make both in the Civil Service and in the private sector of the economy
Implications of the drift of population to the south-west of Nigeria
  • Migration into the south-west brings problems in both urban and rural areas, and has political implications. (EMS).
Exploring the spatial dimensions of Black resistance and political violence in South Africa : the case of Durban in Urbanization in South Africa.
  • BOOTH, D.
Soil properties and moisture characteristics and their relationship with crop mid-day stress
  • This present study was to obtain information on moisture retention and release curves using both physical and chemical properties of the soils. The second objective was to advance the understanding of the physico/chemical behaviour of the soils
The growth and structure of Nigeria's export manufactures, 1971-1975
  • A constant-market-share model of exports is used to study trends in Nigeria's exports between 1971 and 1975. In this period manufactured exports declined relative both to the country's total exports, and in absolute terms. The author attempts
Women and industrial change: the South African experience
  • The economic spaces available for penetration by women in South Africa are shaped by two overlapping structures of domination which create a division of labour moulded by cleavages of both race and sex. Against this background changing patterns
Contemporary pollen spectra and vegetation of the Nyika Plateau, Malawi
  • A study of contemporary pollen rain on the Nyika Plateau reveals that both pollen hap and surface spectra reflect the present day vegetation pattern very closely. Fossil pollen spectra can be expected to give a good indication of regional changes
Factorial ecology and the South African city: some problems and prospects
  • The factorial ecology approach to urban analysis has recently been subject to widespread criticism. These criticisms have focussed both on the conceptual foundation of factorial ecology and on the application of factorial techniques to problems
Some economic effects of cargo unitization in Nigeria
  • Ghana and Nigeria are included in a general article on the effects, both social and economic, of the use of containers and pallets instead of break-bulk methods in ports in African countries. New methods could reduce congestion in particular
The migration of the Danagla to Port Sudan : a case study on the impact of migration on the change of identity in Migration and identity change in the Sudan.
  • The Danagla belong to the most active ethnic groups in the Sudan. Though they have completely dropped their agricultural background and adopted an entirely urban character, they still have close contacts both to each other in town and to their home
Acteurs et stratégies de l'eau dans la vallée du Sénégal
  • The drought has led to the development of small irrigated fields fed by pumps. The success of this system has in turn led to the setting up of large-scale irrigation schemes by both public and private sectors, to the extent that 35 000 ha are now
A model for population migration in the Republic of South Africa as applied to the Western Cape.
  • probabilities| and, secondly, an entropy-maximizing type to predict migration destination totals. The results obtained by both submodels were encouraging. (AJC).
South African city: theory in analysis and planning.
  • A range of land-use and planning theory that might be used as a basis for both understanding and changing the South African urban world is critically examined. The emphasis is laid upon the politico-economic bases of urban land-use and planning