Contents

31 May 2006

Contributions

• Land Restitution through the Lens of Environmental Law: Some Comments on the South African Vista / Du Plessis, A
• Risk Management And Liability For Environmental Harm Caused By GMOS – The South African Regulatory Framework / Feris, L
• Improving Unsustainable Environmental Governance in South Africa: the Case for Holistic Governance / Kotzé, LJ
• Ex post facto authorisation in South African environmental assessment legislation: a critical review / Paschke, R & Glazewski, J
• Clearing a Path Towards Effective Alien Invasive Control: the Legal Conundrum / Paterson, AR
• Sustainable development and the nature of environmental legal principles / Verschuuren, J

Editorial

In this first of at least three editions planned for 2006, the focus is on environmental law:

• Professor Verschuuren of Tilburg University attributes the high moral value of the principles of environmental law to the ideal of sustainable development.

• Advocate Paschke and Professor Glazewski of Cape Town offers strong arguments against allowing retrospective environmental authorisation as militating against the purposes of environmental assessment.

• Professor Feris of the University of Pretoria investigates the South African legal regime regarding risk management and liability concerning genetically modified organisms, finding it to be inadequate.

• Mr Paterson of the University of Cape Town critically analyses South African attempts to produce a coherent legislative framework for the regulation of alien invasive plants in accordance with the principles of the Convention on Biological Diversity

• Dr Kotze of Potchefstroom argues the necessity of integrating environmental governance efforts for the purposes of rendering environmental governance sustainable, and

• Ms Du Plessis of Potchefstroom demonstrates, with reference to the case of the Khomani San community in the Kalahari, that land reform can impact strongly on the environment and sustainable development.

Editor: Professor Francois Venter / Guest editor: Professor Werner Scholtz