Social and Environmental Justice in South African Cities: Including ‘Invisible Stakeholders’ in Environmental Assessment Procedures
| Autor: | Catherine Oelofse, Dianne Scott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Environmental justice Social impact assessment Impact assessment Geography Planning and Development Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public administration Environmental studies Environmental law Public participation Ecological modernization Economics Environmental impact assessment Environmental planning General Environmental Science Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 48:445-467 |
| ISSN: | 1360-0559 0964-0568 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09640560500067582 |
| Popis: | In South Africa an intensive reform process to democratize policy, legislation and related institutions in the country commenced after the first democratic elections in 1994. While environmental law reform includes active public participation and equity principles, it is proposed in this paper that ecological modernization dominates current environmental assessment practice. This paper presents a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) of a proposed landfill on the periphery of Durban, where large informal settlements and peri-urban areas exist as a relic of apartheid planning. The methodology of the SIA was explicitly designed within a framework of social justice to include poor and marginalized people, who remain excluded from environmental decision making despite the promise of democratic equality. The study claims to deepen democratic practice by demonstrating that alternative methodologies can be designed to include the interests of ‘invisible stakeholders’ in environmental assessments despite the dominance o... |
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