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CONTEMPORARY MILITARY GEOSCIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
AFRICAN SUN MEDIA.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1: Historical Battlefields
- Chapter 1
- Perspectives on Battlefield Archaeology and Heritage of the Second Anglo-Boer War
- Introduction
- The Second Anglo-Boer War: the Context of Engagements,Memory, Heritage and Representation
- Case Studies: Colenso and Spioen Kop
- Colenso
- Spioen Kop
- Discussion
- Conclusions and a Future Research Agenda
- Chapter 2
- Battlefield Tourism at Magersfontein: The Case of Heritage Tourism in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Introduction
- What is Heritage Tourism?
- Battlefield Heritage Tourism: An International Perspective
- Battlefield Tourism in South Africa
- The Case of Magersfontein, Northern Cape
- Local Tourism Policy, Planning and Trends in the Magersfontein Battlefield Region
- Heritage Tourists and the Battlefield
- The Challenges for Developing Battlefield Tourism
- Conclusion
- Part 2: Environmental Management
- Chapter 3
- Monitoring of the Implementation of Environmental Managementin the Defence Force: A Comparative Analysis of Two South African National Defence Force Military Installations
- Introduction
- Contextual Background
- Methodology
- Results and Discussion
- Extrapolation
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4
- Spatial Decision Support: for Military Integrated Environmental Management in South Africa
- Introduction
- Literature Review: Geographical Information System Application History in the Military
- Geospatial Technologies for the Military
- Multi-criteria Spatial Analysis in Geographical Information Systems
- Incorporating the Military Integrated Environmental Management Command Framework
- Operationalised Multiple-Criteria Evaluation in Military Geographical Information Systems
- Environmental Impact of Military Operations
- Geographical Database Development
- Environmental Sensitivity Mapping
- Operational Rule Set Development
- Multiple-Criteria Evaluation: Criteria Weighting and Weighted Overlay
- Towards a Spatial Decision Support System
- Conclusion and Future Development
- Part 3: The Southern African Maritime Domain
- Chapter 5
- Maritime Southern Africa
- Introduction
- International Maritime Zones
- The South African Development Community
- Threats to the Southern African Development Corporation Maritime Area
- Role of the South African Navy in the Region
- South African Maritime Security Actions
- Conclusion
- Part 4: Terrain
- Chapter 6
- Terrain Negotiability: Proposing a geographic informationsystems (GIS) Model for the South African Army
- Introduction
- Background
- Tools for Geographic Information Systems Modelling
- Modelling Terrain Negotiability in the South African Army
- Soil with Reference to Terrain Negotiability
- Proposed Geographic Information Systems Terrain Negotiability Model
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7
- South African Army Mobility Modelling Software and its Future Challenges