Towards sustainability via participation? environmental evaluation and land use planning in the Garden Route, South Africa

This thesis seeks to relate the concept and practice of public participation (PP) to an evolving theory of sustainability. This relationship is framed within the context of the South African local state, where government institutions interact with civil society to support socio-economic development, as wen as environmental protection. In this respect, key mechanisms are land use planning and environmental evaluation, which interact to influence decision-making processes surrounding at times contentious land development applications. PP plays an important role in this process, and to analyse this role is the aim of this thesis.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Environmental and Geographical Science

Year dc:date.issued

1999

Author dc:creator

• Hamann, Ralph

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• O'Riordan, Tim
• Hill, Richard

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4859

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4859