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dc.contributor.advisorKotzé, L.J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMurcott, M.J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-30T09:50:15Z
dc.date.available2020-10-30T09:50:15Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8311-2195en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/36123
dc.descriptionPhD (Constitutional Law), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus
dc.description.abstractThe problem that this thesis seeks to address is the South African judiciary's failure, in general, to recognise in the adjudication of environmental law disputes that social injustices are connected to harmful environmental conditions and thus to environmental and climate injustices for South Africa's poor. This thesis proposes a legal theory of transformative environmental constitutionalism as a means, in the adjudication of environmental law disputes, to foster an appreciation from a socio-ecological systems perspective, of the interconnected nature of social, environmental and climate injustices, particularly in the socio-ecological crisis of the Anthropocene. This thesis argues that the implementation of a legal theory of transformative environmental constitutionalism by the judiciary could facilitate the emergence of a social justice-oriented environmental law jurisprudence more responsive to the plight of South Africa's poor and the deterioration of the environment, as interconnected concerns.
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNorth-West University (South Africa)en_US
dc.subjectTransformative constitutionalism
dc.subjectenvironmental constitutionalism
dc.subjecttransformative environmental constitutionalism
dc.subjectsocial justice
dc.subjectenvironmental justice
dc.subjectclimate justice
dc.subjectAnthropocene
dc.subjectsocio-ecological systems
dc.titleTowards a social justice-oriented environmental law jurisprudence in South Africaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.thesistypeDoctoralen_US
dc.contributor.researchID10951164 - Kotzé, Louis Jacobus (Supervisor)en_US


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