In this section of the module we turn our attention to South Africa exclusively. We apply what we have learned about environmental politics generally to South Africa specifically and ask the following critical questions:
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What is the nature of politics in South Africa?
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Is the environment a policy problem in SA? Identify environmental policy issues and discuss nuclear power as an environmental policy issue in particular.
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Is there support for green political thought in SA?
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Is there an environmental movement in SA? Identify and classify environmental groups in SA
These questions will be addressed in the lectures through interactive discussions, guest lectures, audio-visual material and articles that will be supplied on ikamva.
Endnotes:
2 Sources used for the paragraphs on the Industrial Revolution:
- Academic Kids Encyclopedia: the Scientific Revolution; the Digital Revolution
- Britannica Online Encyclopædia: the Neolithic Revolution; the Scientific Revolution
- Joseph A. Montagna, “The Industrial Revolution” URL:
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html, Accessed: 15.07.2012
- Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific
Revolution (Martinsburg, McGraw-Hill: 2002).
- Wikipedia: the Neolithic Revolution; the Industrial Revolution; the Digital Revolution
3 Desta Mebratu, ‘Sustainability and sustainable development: Historical and conceptual review’, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 18, Issue 6, 1998, pp. 493–520, p. 495
4 UN-HABITAT, State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013, p. 28
5 UN-HABITAT, State of the World’s Cities 2008/2009: Harmonious Cities (London: Earthscan, 2008), p. x
6 UN-HABITAT, State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013, p. 28
7 UN-HABITAT, State of the World’s Cities 2008/2009, p. xi
8 Martin Medina, ‘Waste picker cooperatives in developing countries’, paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India (2005), p. 1
9 UN-HABITAT, State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013, p. 78
10 Martin Medina, ‘Waste picker cooperatives in developing countries’, p. 2
11 UN-HABITAT, State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013, p. 78
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., p. 250
14 Timothy Doyle and Doug McEachern, Environment and Politics (Routledge Introductions to Environment Series), (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 12-13
15 Ibid. p. 19
16 Ibid. p. 29
17 David Held, Models of Democracy, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006), p. 2
18 Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment. Ideas, Activism, Policy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 3
20 Ibid., p. 49
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Polokwane Declaration
24 Hallowes and Munnik, Wasting the Nation, p. 52
25 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996
26 Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), A user friendly guide to the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008, (Pretoria: DEA Pollution & Waste Management, 2011), p. 8
27 Hallowes and Munnik, Wasting the Nation, p. 71
28 DEA, A user friendly guide to NEMWA, p. 8
29 Ibid., p. 11
30 DEA, Baseline Report, p. 1
31 DEA, A user friendly guide to NEMWA, p. 18
32 DEA, Baseline Report, p. 1f.
33 DEA, National Waste Information Baseline Report, p. iii
34 Ibid.
35 Urban Earth, South African Waste Snapshot 2013, p. 8
37 Jaques Ellul, ‘Technology and Democracy’, in: Winner, Langdon (ed.), Democracy in a Technological Society (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992), pp. 35-50, here: p. 37
38 Robyn Eckersley, ‘Green Theory’, in: Dunne, Tim / Kurki, Milja / Smith, Steve, International Relations Theories. Discipline and Diversity, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 247-265, here: p. 250f.
39 Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies: An Introduction (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. 266
40 Ibid., p. 266f.
42 cf. Dobson, Green Political Thought
43 Heywood, Political Ideologies, p. 271
44 Ibid., p. 267
45 Ibid., p. 268
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid., p. 269
48 Ibid., p. 271
49 Ibid., p. 275
50 Ibid., p. 276
51 Ibid., p. 277
52 Ibid., p. 279
53 Ibid., p. 279ff.
54 Ibid., p. 282
55 Ibid.
56 The richest national environmental organisations in the USA have been called the ‘Big Ten’ or the ‘Dirty Dozen’;
see Doyle and McEachern, Environment and Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), p. 93
57 Leslie Paul Thiele, “Environmental Movements: The History of the Environmental Movement, Public Support and Prospects for the Future, nongovernmental organizations.”
URL: http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/3265/Environmental-Movements.html
Accessed: 14.07.2011
58 Doyle and McEachern, Environment and Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), p. 66
59 Doyle and McEachern, Environment and Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), p. 115
60 Ibid., p. 112
61 Wolfgang Roth, “Grüne in Deutschland: Republik mit Grünstich”, in: Sueddeutsche Zeitung (09.01.2010).
URL: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/378/499653/text/9/, Accessed: 09.01.2010
62 Stefan Schultz, “Boom bei Wind und Solar: Ökostrom verdrängt Atomenergie in Rekordzeit”, in: Spiegel Online (09.01.2010).
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/0,1518,690440,00.html, Accessed: 23.04.2010
63 Global Greens: Green Parties Worldwide
URL: http://www.greens.org/, Accessed: 25.04.2010
64 John Hickman and Sarah Bartlett, “Global Tragedy of the Commons at COP 6”, in: Synthesis/Regeneration, Vol. 24, 2001.
URL: http://www.greens.org/s-r/24/24-26.html, Accessed: 19.02.2011
65 p. 245
66 Carter, The Politics of the Environment, p. 241
67 p. 244f.
68 Unknown author, “A brief history of sustainable development” (2002).
69 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Background and Facts
URL: http://unfccc.int/essential_background/items/2877.php and http://unfccc.int/press/fact_sheets/items/4978.php
Accessed: 20.02.2011
70 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Kyoto Protocol
URL: http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php, Accessed: 03.03.2011
71 Ibid.
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