Problems Reconciling Sustainable Development Rhetoric with Reality in Zimbabwe*
| Autor: | Jeanette Manjengwa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Sustainable development
Sociology and Political Science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management Developing country Citizen journalism Ground level DEAP Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Action planning Political science Rhetoric Macro business Environmental planning media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Southern African Studies. 33:307-323 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3893 0305-7070 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03057070701292608 |
| Popis: | Many sustainable development initiatives in developing countries are characterised by weak implementation and low impact on the ground. This article focuses on one specific sustainable development initiative, District Environmental Action Planning (DEAP), modelled on Agenda 21 that was implemented in Zimbabwe. Although externally inspired and donor-funded sustainable development programmes, such as DEAP, are espoused and implemented as national programmes, they have had little ground level impact. Despite the populist sustainable development rhetoric, DEAP was not based at local level, environmental concerns were not integrated into development plans, and the projects that were implemented had negligible impact on either environmental or human well-being. DEAP was implemented within a strongly hierarchical framework and failed to bridge the gap between micro and macro levels. Analysis of DEAP's implementation has shown that the programme was essentially top-down, only partially participatory, and depended... |
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