Marcos Nicolau

Biographic Data

ID1316755
NAMEMarcos Nicolau
GIVEN NAMESMarcos
FAMILY NAMENicolau
SIGNATURENICOLAU M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Africa
ORCID0000-0001-6532-9657
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Promoting gender equality across the sustainable development goals

    Open AccessWalter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2023

    Gender issues, and gender equality in particular, can be regarded as cross-cutting issues in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), even though it is unclear how they are taken into account. This study addresses this information gap by performing an assessment of the emphasis on gender issues across all the other 16 SDGs, in addition to SDG5, through a literature review and case study analysis, the basis for the newly dev…

  • Role of Highland–Lowland Linkage as a Coping Strategy for Global Environmental and Socioeconomic Changes

    Open AccessGetachew Demissie Desta, Muluneh Woldetsadik Abshare et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2023

    This study in Bale administrative zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia, aimed to investigate the vulnerability of livelihoods of highlanders and lowlanders to global environmental and socioeconomic changes and how highland–lowland linkage could function as a coping strategy. Multistage cluster sampling techniques were employed to select 403 sample respondents from the 2 agroecological regions. The primary data were collected using quest…

  • A catastrophic threat to the already vulnerable towards 2030

    Open AccessBeauty Dzawanda, Mark Matsa et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2022

    Informal cross-border trade (ICBT) is one significant part of intra-Sub-Saharan African (SSA) trade. This economic activity goes a long way in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, by providing employment in poor communities, and thus helps in poverty reduction by providing a significant contribution of income into households. For these reasons any disturbance to ICBT in SSA is a serious threat, since it affects the most vulnerable groups …

  • Impact of Virtual Cash Economy on Livelihood Outcomes of Informal Cross Border Traders in Gweru, Zimbabwe

    Open AccessBeauty Dzawanda, Marcos Nicolau et al.ARTICLEUrban Forum2021

  • Livelihood Outcomes of Informal Cross Border Traders Prior to the Rise of the Virtual Cash Economy in Gweru, Zimbabwe

    Beauty Dzawanda, Marcos Nicolau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Borderlands Studies2021Cited by: 2References: 3

    Informal cross border trade (ICBT) is a viable economic activity that many people in Zimbabwe depend upon for their survival during times of economic hardship. The research examined the livelihood outcomes of ICBT during the multi-currency era and prior to the extensive use of the virtual cash economy in Zimbabwe. Data collection instruments comprised closed and open-ended questionnaires, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews wit…

  • Poverty on the rise

    Open AccessBeauty Dzawanda, Mark Matsa et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Science…2021Cited by: 7References: 5

    The informal sector in Zimbabwe employs more than 80 per cent of the population, whose livelihood strategies are under severe threat because of the COVID-19 lockdown. This paper examines the effects of the lockdown on the informal sector in Gweru. Anchored within the legalist theory of informality, the paper analyses the response of government to the plight of the informal sector in Zimbabwe. A qualitative research design was applied and convenie…

  • African Migrant Traders’ Experiences in Johannesburg Inner City

    Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo et al.ARTICLESociety in Transition2018

    Globally, migrants face numerous socio-economic and institutional impediments that hinder their participation in the labour market of host cities and/or countries. This motivates them to join the informal economic sector to make a living. Applying the concept of tactical cosmopolitanism to understand the social and economic agency of African migrants, this article reports on an explorative analysis of the experiences of informal African migrant s…

  • Johannesburg (South Africa) Inner City African Immigrant Traders

    Open AccessInocent Moyo, Marcos Nicolau et al.ARTICLEUrban Forum2016

  • Impact of land cover changes and topography on soil quality in the K asso catchment, B ale M ountains of southeastern E thiopia

    Open AccessHussein Haycho Warra, Mohammed Assen Ahmed et al.ARTICLESingapore Journal of Tropical…2015

    This study assessed land cover change and topographic elevation on selected soil quality parameters in the K asso catchment, southeastern E thiopia. Twenty‐seven soil samples collected from 0–30cm depth under four land cover types across three elevation gradients were analysed for selected soil quality parameters. Results indicated that soil particle size distribution is different (p pH (p K asso catchment

  • A Community Asset Mapping Programme for Roots-driven Sustainable Socio-economic Change in Rural South Africa

    Marcos Nicolau, Melanie Nicolau et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2015Cited by: 1References: 7

  • Publicidade Interativa e Relacionamento Mercadológico na Internet

    Open AccessDanielle Vieira Da Silva, Marcos NicolauARTICLEÍcone2011

    No contexto atual das culturas midiáticas, a publicidade tem encontrado na internet o ambiente propício a um relacionamento mercadológico que parece se mostrar satisfatório aos consumidores. Trata-se de uma publicidade interativa que permite a participação deles no processo de elaboração de peças e melhoria nos produtos de duas grandes marcas: Nescau e Ruffles. O objetivo deste artigo é demonstrar como se constrói tal relacionamento, paralelo a o…