PERIPERI U Partners Enhancing Resilience for People Exposed to Risks

Past Honours Student Theses

This page represents a handful of the total Honours level student theses and research reports that have been produced by students taking part in various programmes across PERIPERI U. We are currently still uploading new documents and abstracts of both recent and past reports.

2012

An investigation of the perceptions of healthcare: A case study of Zimbabwean migrants in Kayamandi.
Primrose Chirowodza
Informal sanitation risks: Assessment of Kayamandi
Michael Moreland

2010

An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Residents of Formal and Informal Dwellings: A Case Study Of Households in Uitsig, Cape Town.
Petersen, Ai-isha
Assessing the future impacts of global warming on drought frequency in the Eden District Municipality in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Michael Fit
Drivers of flood severity and magnitude in the Keisie River catchment: A case study from the November 2008 flood event in Montagu, Western Cape, South Africa.
Sabela, Phindile
Examining the role that school feeding plays as a protective and pro motive form of social protection in the nutrition of children and their households: A case study from Zimbabwe.
Taylor, Sarah
Exploring and Understanding How Women Living With Hiv/Aids On Antiretroviral Drugs Access And Utilize Food In Harare Zimbabwe.
Machiridza, Rumbidzai
Managing disasters in the context of climate change: towards sustainable urban flood management in Cape Town.
Kirsten Anderson
Rebuilding lives after informal settlement fires: A case study of coping strategies in Overcome Heights, Vrygrond.
Wicht, Cabral
The Duiwenhoks River: An Analysis of Flood Causation.
Jan De Waal

2009

A Livelihoods approach to understanding and describing the impact of cholera on household’s food security. Studying fishers at Lake Chivero: Zimbabwe.
Chasi, Vimbai
Comparing the livelihood strategies between women teachers in food security in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Mavengere, Chiedza-Adelaide
Environmental health hazards, household practices and under-five Childhood illness: A comparative study of Sweet Home informal settlement, Section D.
Redinger, Vivienne Maxine
Fire risk in a formalised settlement. A case of Vrygrond.
Davis, Craig
Fire Risk Management Contingencies in the Cape Winelands Region: A Study of the 2009 Jonkershoek Wildfire.
Moir, Shaun
Investigating the Relationship between Household and State Responses to Flooding in Sweet Home Farm.
Mbvundula , Ekari V.
Rainfall, Flooding & Infrastructure Damage in the Breede River Winelands Municipality: A Focus on Cut-off Low Events 2003 – 2008.
Donaldson, Richard

2008

An analysis of food insecurity amongst Zimbabwean refugees in Cape Town, South Africa.
De Boer, Jessie
The progression of vulnerability to informal fire risk: An Imizamo Yethu case study with a specific fire risk comparison between informal freestanding dwellings and backyard dwellings.
Munnik, Oliver
Vegetative debris loading as a critical risk factor for riverine damage to infrastructure: A case study of the July 2008 flood event in the Western Cape.
Barrett, Laura

2007

A descriptive analysis of environmental health risks and household livelihoods: A case study in the informal settlement of Khayelitsha TR Section.
Kasie, Tesfahun
A descriptive analysis of post-fire mitigation measures for steep slopes: A case study of Cape Town’s mudslide and mountain flood risk mitigation programme following vegetation fires in 2006.
Smith, Mark
Analysis of land-use changes in the Knysna river catchment and the associated flood risks: A focus on the Salt River.
Drowley, Michael
The relationship between household livelihood profile and fire and flood-related vulnerability.
Bahry, Migret

2006

A study of the 2006 Overberg Fire: Application of the wildfire risk management framework to two wildflower farms and two wildflower businesses.
Daams, Francisco
An assessment of the city of Cape Town’s 2006 winter preparedness strategy.
Pharoah, Robyn
An integrated approach to investigating climate-driven risk: A case study of climate risks facing critical water and sanitation infrastructure in the Greater Gaansbaai area, Western Cape, South Africa.
Hackland, Louise
Developing an asset estimation methodology for fire-prone informal settlements: Case study: Masiphumelele
Solomon, FJ
Risk reduction and sustainability in an artisanal fishing “community”: A case study of Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town.
Roomaney, Rifqah
Susceptibility of municipal infrastructure and related services to extreme weather events in the Western Cape: A comparative study of three towns.
Bauer, Janine
Vulnerability as a component of risk: A case study of the 2006 Southern Cape floods.
Lawson, Lyndi

2005

An investigation into the levels of support mechanism access by disadvantaged HIV-positive individuals and their households.
Pottier, Lyndal
Concatenating nature of health risk to primary school aged children in Masiphumelele.
Benjamin, Ameen
Experience and exposure to fire risk: A comparison of Langa/Joe Slovo residents in hostels and those in wooden emergency houses.
Murambadoro, Miriam
Livelihoods at risk: The multiple dimensions of vulnerability of the Hangberg subsistence fishers.
Nicolson, Gregory

2004

Differentiating between Tsunami as hazard and tsunami as risk: A case study of the 26 December Tsunami in Phuket, Thailand.
Scott, Paul
The relationship between settlement density and informal settlement fires: A case study:Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay and Joe Slovo, Cape Town Metropolis.
Smith, Helen
The role of information in rural livelihoods.
Zanner, Richard