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Waste law and policy perspectives on municipal "land-fill to gas" CDM projects in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)
Landfilling has a negative impact inter alia on the environment. Landfill gas is for example released into the atmosphere. The waste sector releases high amounts of GHG concentrations (methane gas), proving that it has ...
Legal perspectives on the function of public- private partnerships in local disaster management in South Africa
(2014)
It is anticipated that the occurrence and intensity of disasters will increase globally and in South Africa where typical disasters include droughts, floods, extreme hailstorms, gales, structural fires, as well as earthquakes ...
Municipal Courts and environmental justice in South African local government
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)
Environmental injustice is part and parcel of the fundamentals of international and domestic environmental law. In South Africa, section 2(4)(c) of the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 (NEMA) establishes ...
Municipal planning law and policy for sustainable cities in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)
Cities have long been the pioneers of and driving force behind the development and evolution of human societies. The significance of cities as drivers of the sustainable development agenda received its strongest recognition ...
The legal framework for environmental auditing in the public sector in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)
Environmental auditing allows an entity to demonstrate concern for environmental matters and principles and to improve its compliance with environmental laws, regulations, policies etcetera. Environmental auditing may also ...
Environmental law perspectives on the regulation of ecotourism in South Africa's transition to a green economy
(2013)
South Africa and the rest of the world currently face an exacerbating threat of environmental degradation, which can be partly ascribed to the fact that some parts of society still place economic growth as a priority over ...
Hydraulic fracturing and procedural environmental rights in South Africa
(North-West University, 2019)
Hydraulic fracturing, the process which facilitates the extraction of shale gas from rock formation from depths of up to two miles below the earth's surface, has the potential to adversely impact environmental and the other ...
The Gauteng provincial biodiversity law : a critical evaluation
(North-West University, 2018)
South Africa's rich biodiversity is one of the its most celebrated assets and before the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Constitution), little uniformity prevailed across the country concerning its ...
Culture in the pursuit of sustainable development in South Africa : a legal approach
(North-West University, 2018)
Over time, it has become evident that development that is measured by economic indices alone without consideration of other dimensions of development is ineffective and unsustainable. Concerns as to the continuous exploitation ...
Local government's role in the pursuit of the transformative constitutional mandate of social justice in South Africa
(2014)
South Africa's transition to constitutional democracy marked the end of a system of government that perpetuated injustice on the basis of race. The previous system of government, underpinned by the principle of parliamentary ...