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dc.contributor.advisorKotzé, L J
dc.contributor.authorToxopeüs, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-11T08:14:46Z
dc.date.available2017-04-11T08:14:46Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/21319
dc.descriptionLLM (Environmental Law and Governanace), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2016.en_US
dc.description.abstractCivil society has a significant role to play in promoting environmental justice, particularly through the lens of civil-based environmental governance. Civil-based instruments such as public participation, access to information, and access to justice may provide remedies for past inequalities and lead to outcomes that are more just by recognising all members of society and thereby empowering them to participate in environmental governance. Therefore, this dissertation seeks to argue that procedural environmental justice is promoted through the use of these civil-based instruments, as the public is recognised as an important stakeholder within the environmental governance regime while being given the opportunity to participate in environmental decision-making, enforcement and compliance. This will be done by establishing a link between the environmental right enshrined in the Constitution and environmental justice, determining whether or not civil-based instruments have been applied in the context of the environmental right, and establishing the extent to which this application of civil-based instruments has promoted environmental justice. Keywords: environmental justice, civil-based instruments, public participation, access to information, access to justice, environmental right, civil societyen_US
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dc.publisherNorth-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campusen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental justiceen_US
dc.subjectCivil-based instrumentsen_US
dc.subjectPublic participationen_US
dc.subjectAccess to informationen_US
dc.subjectAccess to justiceen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental righten_US
dc.subjectCivil societyen_US
dc.titleThe promotion of environmental justice through the lens of civil-based environmental governance in South Africaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.thesistypeMastersen_US


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