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Title: | Government and Sustainable Development in South Africa: The Environmental Legislative Framework in Historical Context |
Author: | Lumby, Anthony |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economic History |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 65-82 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | sustainable development environmental law Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology History and Exploration Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430509511179 |
Abstract: | During the past two decades, the neoclassical model of environmental economics has been challenged as a suitable tool for the resolution of environmental problems. This model, in which the role of the State is confined primarily to the enforcement of property rights, focuses on providing a 'market solution' to environmental problems. The concept of 'sustainable development' has emerged as an alternative approach to the resolution of these problems. Against this background, the present article gives an overview of South Africa's environmental issues. It examines the role of the State as both a cause of, and a potential solution to, environmental problems. It also pays attention to the National Environmental Management Bill, published in July 1998, which became law as Act no. 107 of 1998. The article concludes that it remains to be seen whether South Africa's policy on sustainable development will actually be carried out in practice. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |