Documents
This folder contains the PRESENCE academic documents produced to date. It is mainly composed of students reports, posters and presentations.
- Blanksma Nicolein impacts of land use on ecosystem services
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. The objective of this study is to quantify and compare ecosystem services provided by the main land use types in the Baviaanskloof in South Africa.
- de Paoli Gloria 2009 Payment for watershed services
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Valuation of the Goods and Services provided by the Thicket Ecosystem in the Western Baviaanskloof
- de la Flor Ignacio 2008 value goods services thicket
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Assessed options for a payment for watershed services scheme.
- de Paoli Gloria 2009 River System Restoration in BMR
- Internship at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. River system restoration for a sustainable land and water management in Baviaanskloof
- Diaz Jose David 2009 Technical Report on Witteklip restoration
- Master thesis at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Catchment: Kouga. Technical report on the restoration of a section of the Witteklip River as part of the Pilot Project for Rehabilitation of the Kouga River.
- Draaijer Anne Gerrit 2010 Erosion risk mapping in the Baviaanskloof
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Erosion risk mapping in the Baviaanskloof watershed.
- Draaijer Anne Gerrit 2010 Monitoring site Baviaans
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Monitoring soil water interactions of South African succulent thicket restoration cost effectively on field scale
- Fousert Wietske 2009 Feasibility of Restoration-based Tourism
- Master internship at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Voluntary tourism, a feasible tourism development approach for the western Baviaanskloof, South Africa?
- Fousert Wietske 2009 Baviaanskloof tourism experience
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. A Qualitative Exploration of the Baviaanskloof Tourism Experience
- Haider Ali Javed 2009 Institutional Arrangements for PES
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Investigating the Institutional Arrangements Required to Implement Payment for Environmental Services (PES): A Case Study in Baviaanskloof Watershed, South Africa
- Haider Natasha_2008_Waste Management Baseline Study Baviaanskloof
- Master internship at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof and Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve. Baseline Study to Develop Waste Management Plan for Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve and Adjacent Area
- Hassing Arjan 2009 PRESENCE learning network
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. No specific catchment. Analysis of PRESENCE performance in relation to the main dimension of learning network organizations.
- Janssen Kim 2008 Cultural values of ecosystem services
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. The relevance of socio-cultural values of ecosystem services to restoration planning and implementation in the Baviaanskloof
- Lorencova Eliska 2008 Institutional capacity carbon market
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Exploring the organizational institutional capacity of the carbon sequestration projects in South Africa: A comparison between Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and voluntary carbon offset schemes; Case study of the Subtropical Thicket restoration in Baviaanskloof
- Merron James 2010 Wattle we do - Alien eradication
- Master thesis at Rhodes University. Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve Planning Domain. WATTLE WE DO? ALIEN ERADICATION AND THE „ECOLOGY OF FEAR‟ ON THE FRINGES OF A WORLD HERITAGE SITE, SOUTH AFRICA
- Nocita Marco 2009 Soil Organic Carbon in Thicket
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Area: transect in the Thicket Biome. Soil spectroscopy as a tool to assess organic carbon, iron oxides, and clay content in the Subtropical Thicket Biome of the Eastern Cape province
- Noirtin Emmanuelle 2008 Who is willing to restore and why
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Analysis of stakeholder interactions and involvement in thicket restoration, Western Baviaanskloof.
- Sommeijer Marian 2010 Hillslope restoration hydrology
- Bachelor thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. Sensitivity analysis of the Curve Number method for the assessment of hydrological impacts of hill slope revegetation in the Baviaanskloof
- van der Burg Lennart 2008 benefits restoring water regulation Gamtoos
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof and Gamtoos. Valuing the benefits of restoring the water regulation services, in the subtropical thicket biome: a case study in the ‘Baviaanskloof-Gamtoos watershed'.
- Montpetit Annie_2009_Tourism Attitudes in Gamtoos Valley
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Gamtoos. Assessment of tourism operators’ attitudes toward nature and restoration of natural capital in the Gamtoos Valley
- van Luijk Gerson 2011 Hydrology of Spekboom
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. A HYDROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SPEKBOOM THICKET IN BAVIAANSKLOOF
- Vittek Marian 2009 Vegetation degradation assessment
- Master thesis at Wageningen University. Catchment: Baviaanskloof. ASSESSMENT OF VEGETATION DEGRADATION STATUS BY TREND ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES AND REMOTE SENSING PHENOLOGY OF MODIS ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX DATA IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUBTROPICAL THICKET BIOME