For centuries migration has been known to be a trend where people move from an area with poor res... more For centuries migration has been known to be a trend where people move from an area with poor resources to that which promises better life. In modern day the pattern is that of people moving from rural to urban areas. There is an unusual trend unfolding in Adams Rural, a rural area south of Durban in South Africa, where the migration norms appear to have been reversed. People have been moving from urban areas to this rural area. This trend is observable as an increase in human settlements over the past decade and is confirmed by annual aerial imagery of the area captured by the eThekwini Municipality. The increasing demand for settlements has placed pressure on customary stakeholders to provide more land for residential purpose’s resulting in loss of land previously reserved for agriculture predominantly in the form of sugarcane plantation. This research employs Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and change detection performed on selected orthophoto imagery to assess spa...
For centuries migration has been known to be a trend where people move from an area with poor res... more For centuries migration has been known to be a trend where people move from an area with poor resources to that which promises better life. In modern day the pattern is that of people moving from rural to urban areas. There is an unusual trend unfolding in Adams Rural, a rural area south of Durban in South Africa, where the migration norms appear to have been reversed. People have been moving from urban areas to this rural area. This trend is observable as an increase in human settlements over the past decade and is confirmed by annual aerial imagery of the area captured by the eThekwini Municipality. The increasing demand for settlements has placed pressure on customary stakeholders to provide more land for residential purpose’s resulting in loss of land previously reserved for agriculture predominantly in the form of sugarcane plantation. This research employs Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and change detection performed on selected orthophoto imagery to assess spa...
Uploads