Browsing Faculty of Law by Author "11731958 - Du Plessis, Alida Anél"
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The "brown" environmental agenda and the constitutional duties of local government in South Africa: a conceptual introduction
Du Plessis, Anél A (2015)This note explores the interrelationship between ecologically sustainable development (the green environmental agenda) and pro-poor urban development and environmental health (the brown environmental agenda) in relation ... -
Climate change, public trusteeship and the tomorrows of the unborn
Du Plessis, Anél (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 ... -
Cooperative environmental governance: at the coalface of sustainable infrastructure development in South Africa
Du Plessis, Anél; Alberts, Reece (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 ... -
Fragmentation: Friend or foe in the effective implementation of the Cultural Diversity Convention in South Africa?
Rautenbach, Christa; Du Plessis, Anél (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 ... -
A Gold Rush to Nowhere? The rights-based approach to environmental governance in South Africa’s mining sector in question
Kotzé, Louis J; Du Plessis, Anél (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 ... -
The Heat is on: local government and climate governance in South Africa
Du Plessis, Anél; Kotzé, Louis J (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 ... -
In the face of judicial deference: taking the “minimum core” of socio-economic rights to the local government sphere
Fuo, Oliver; Du Plessis, Anél (AJOL, 2015) -
Legal perspectives on the role of culture in sustainable development
Du Plessis, Alida Anél; Rautenbach, Christa (Faculty of Law, North West University, 2010) -
"Local environmental governance" and the role of local government in realising section 24 of the South African constitution
Du Plessis, Alida Anél (Juta Law, 2010)In South Africa, local government has been transformed in many respects since 1994. A total number of 283 municipalities now make up the local government sphere which is independent albeit inter-related in the bigger ... -
The meaning of certain substantive obligations distilled from international human rights instruments for constitutional environmental rights in South Africa
De Wet, Erika; Du Plessis, Alida Anél (Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, 2010) -
Perceptive approaches to the interpretation and realisation of South Africa's Constitutional Environmental Right
Du Plessis, A.A. (School of Law, University of Natal, 2009) -
Public participation, good environmental governance and fulfilment of environmental rights
Du Plessis, Anél (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 ... -
RA Le sueur v eThekwini Municipality 2013 JDR 0178 (KZP): an environmental law reading
Du Plessis, A.A.; Van der Berg, A. (Juta Law Publishing, 2014)Drawing on earlier scholarly works that deal with the legally relevant interface between local government and the constitutional environmental duties of the state, this case comment ventures into an outline of the factual ... -
A role for local government in global environmental governance and transnational environmental law from a subsidiarity perspective
Du Plessis, Anél (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 ... -
Some comments on the sweet and bitter of the National Environmental Law Framework for 'Local Environmental Governance'
Du Plessis, Anél (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 ... -
Some perspectives on constitutional conflict in local disaster management through the lens of Pheko v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality 2012 2 SA 598 (CC)
Du Plessis, Anél; Van der Berg, Angela (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 ... -
South Africa's constitutional environmental right (generously) interpreted : what is in it for poverty?
Du Plessis, Alida Anél (Juta, 2011)Section 24 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 provides that everyone has the right to an environment that is not detrimental to his or her health or well-being. The nature and ambit of the environmental ... -
The readiness of South African law and policy for the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal 11
Du Plessis, Anél (University of the Western Cape, Faculty of Law, 2017)This article notionally questions the readiness of existing South African law and policy for the country's pursuit of “sustainable cities" as per Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The expectations created ...