Browsing by Subject "environmental impact assessment"
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Environmental impact assessment in South Africa - what difference can a sustainability assessment make?
(North-West University, 2018)Sustainability is a concept that has the objective of dealing with the immediate and future ‘needs’ of society while attempting to take the ‘limitations’ imposed by the ecological damage into account. The term sustainability ... -
Environmental management frameworks: results and inferences of report quality performance in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Environmental management frameworks (EMFs) were developed in South Africa as strategic environmental management instruments to map environmental sensitivity in order to aid the screening out of undesired developments and ... -
Framing effectiveness in impact assessment: discourse accommodation in controversial infrastructure development
(Elsevier, 2015)There is ongoing debate about the effectiveness of impact assessment tools, which matters both because of the threat to future practice of the tools which are frequently perceived to be ineffective, and because of the ... -
Threatened Biodiversity, the NEMA EIA Regulations and Cultivation of Virgin Land: More of the Sorry Same?
(2007)The environmental impact assessment (EIA) regulations published in terms of the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 (NEMA) have extended an unprecedented degree of environmental oversight into the domain of ... -
Walking the sustainability assessment talk - Progressing the practice of environmental impact assessment (EIA)
(Elsevier, 2012)Internationally there is a growing demand for environmental impact assessment (EIA) to move away from its traditional focus towards delivering more sustainable outcomes. South Africa is an example of a country where the ...