South Africa's Three Waves of Environmental Policy
(Mis)aligning the Goals of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5696705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zarina Patel (0000-0002-5986-5653, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 169-181 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12119 |
| OpenAlex | W1924357146 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
Three distinct but overlapping policy objectives have influenced environmental policy, structures and processes in contemporary large South African cities: sustainable development, environmental justice and adapting and mitigating for climate change. These goals have been characterized here as three waves of urban environmental policy. This paper responds to the position that sustainability, justice and climate change interventions must be aligned. Despite the global and national commitment to this objective, evidence suggests that environmental injustices and a lack of environmental sustainability persist in all three waves, in spite of policy efforts. What's more is that these disjunctures are not confined to South Africa, or even the global south, but are experienced globally. The wisdom behind calls for aligning these objectives is therefore questioned through a review that illustrates that despite apparent similarities between the objective of addressing environment and development concerns, the motivations behind the three waves are distinct, as are the governance arrangements and structures and tools for implementation. By focusing on the distinctions between these three modes of environmental governance, this review provides a nuanced perspective on what it means to govern the environment at the urban scale
Business · Climate change · Corporate governance · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental governance · Environmental justice · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Sustainable Building Design and Assessment · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Ecology
Learning from the implementation of environmental public policy instruments after the first ten years of democracy in South Africa
Looking Back and Thinking Ahead
Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
Something borrowed, everything new
Multiple disconnections
A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities
Cities' contribution to global warming
Durban’s Local Agenda 21 programme
Institutional Capacity, Climate Change Adaptation and the Urban Poor
Facing the heat
Global environmental change
Constitutional Environmental Rights
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996
Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in African Cities
Universities, Localities and Regional Development
Brown and Green in Durban
Environmental justice in South Africa
Grasping the unknowable
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |