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Public participation, good environmental governance and fulfilment of environmental rights
(North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Faculty of Law, 2008)
This article succinctly, albeit critically, assesses with reference to some international developments the role that public participation is expected to play in state governments’ fulfilment of citizens’ environmental ...
Some perspectives on constitutional conflict in local disaster management through the lens of Pheko v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality 2012 2 SA 598 (CC)
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / Unisa Press, 2013)
Socially created vulnerabilities are largely ignored in the hazards and disaster literature
because they are so difficult to measure and quantify. Social vulnerability is partially a
product of social inequities – those ...
Some comments on the sweet and bitter of the National Environmental Law Framework for 'Local Environmental Governance'
(Verloren van Themaat Centre, UNISA, 2009)
This article critically reviews the core of the statutory environmental law framework that currently regulates local environmental governance in South Africa in order to distill and critically reflect on some common strengths ...
Fragmentation: Friend or foe in the effective implementation of the Cultural Diversity Convention in South Africa?
(VerLoren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies (UNISA), 2009)
It seems as if South Africa has never been as energetically involved in the international law-making arena as she was in the making of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural ...
Cooperative environmental governance: at the coalface of sustainable infrastructure development in South Africa
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / Unisa Press, 2014)
In this article, large-scale infrastructure development is situated within the
sustainability paradigm with an emphasis on questions about
environmental impact. W hile the focus is on South Africa, the article
contributes ...
The Heat is on: local government and climate governance in South Africa
(Cambridge University press, 2014)
Departing from the fact that climate change poses localized effects, this article crit-
ically considers from a legal perspective the role of local authorities in the South
African government’s response ...
A role for local government in global environmental governance and transnational environmental law from a subsidiarity perspective
(Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, 2015)
This article advances a conceptual view of the role of local government in
global environmental governance (‘GEG’) and the system of transnational
environmental law (‘TEL’). The underlying hypothesis is that a ...
A Gold Rush to Nowhere? The rights-based approach to environmental governance in South Africa’s mining sector in question
(Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2014)
In this article we focus on the impact that the mining industry has had, and continues to have, on the environment in South Africa. The country is renowned for its mineral wealth and the mining sector continues to significantly ...
Climate change, public trusteeship and the tomorrows of the unborn
(Juta, 2015)
The impacts of climate change on human and ecological systems and the increasing volatility of life situations demand of scholars to critically evaluate governments' protection of the natural resource base and the interests ...