Climate Change Surge
Implementing Stringent Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16766703 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kola O Odeku, Kola Odeku, Edson L Meyer (0000-0002-9912-311X), Edson Meyer |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-183 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0221-8553 • E-ISSN: 1464-3731 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021855310000033 |
| OpenAlex | W2033306326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article examines how the South African government, realizing the country's vulnerability to climate change, deemed it necessary to strengthen adaptation and mitigation measures and put in place legal and institutional frameworks to ensure implementation and compliance. Government must take responsibility for industry's inaction by implementing policies on climate change and, more importantly, through a visible change in government policy to hold industry accountable. The stringent policies and strategies being put in place are reducing vulnerability and also enhancing a broad spectrum of capacity in responding to environmental, climatic, resource and economic perturbations. The article further reviews state of the art methods and tools available to strengthen mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures in the areas of the existing frameworks regarding climate change. It also considers various measures by Eskom in particular, and strategies embarked upon by South Africa's national and local governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Adaptation (eye) · Business · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Greenhouse gas · Local government · Natural resource economics · Political science · Resource (disambiguation) · State (computer science) · Vulnerability (computing) · Public Administration · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |