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Straddling border and legal regimes : a legal framework for transfrontier biodiversity conservation in SADC
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)
Traditional conservation models focus on conservation within sovereign national borders and therefore ignores the fact that biodiversity extends beyond these political boundaries. Since the Southern African Development ...
Normative hierarchy in international environmental law : a constitutional reading
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)
The current environmental law and governance regime is in need of urgent reform to the extent that it leaves too much room for state sovereignty and states' non-compliance with their environmental obligations. To some ...
A legal framework for the promotion of renewable energy in South Africa : a critical analysis
(2014)
The accepted scientific opinion is that anthropogenic activities and correlated greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change, with carbon dioxide releases from fossil fuels being one of the main culprits. In South ...
Regulating the environmental impacts of factory farming in South Africa: legal perspectives
(North-West University, 2012)
The main purpose of this study was to determine the impact of factory farming on the environment in South Africa. It also determined whether the current existing environmental legislation in the country adequately regulates ...
Waste reclaimers and South African environmental law
(2014)
In South Africa thousands of unemployed people earn a living by recovering recyclable materials from the municipal stream, garbage bins and garbage dumps. In so doing their activities are also beneficial to the environment ...