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| Title: | Understanding Environmental Change in South African Cities: A Landscape Approach |
| Author: | Patel, Zarina |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 57 |
| Pages: | 24-40 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | urban development environment urban planning Urbanization and Migration Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/186280 |
| Abstract: | This paper understands environmental change as resulting from a combination of natural as well as sociocultural and political processes. It uses a landscape approach for understanding environmental change, in order to allow for an engagement with the political catalysts for environmental change, and the social and cultural filters through which landscapes can be interpreted. Case studies of cities in South Africa (Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria) demonstrate the usefulness of a landscape approach for achieving this objective. The challenge for South African cities in the post-1994 context has been one of physically, as well as psychologically, incorporating marginalized groups into the city, with the objective of achieving social and environmental justice. The paper concludes that sustainability cannot be the sole criterion by which policy is driven. An important dimension of the rethinking of sustainable development as a conceptual framework to guide development is that sustainability as a goal in environmental policy can only realize its true potential by building up political strength. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
