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Rethinking Sustainable Development in South Africa Through An Integrated Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation Approach.

机译：通过综合的生物多样性保护和气候变化适应方法，重新思考南非的可持续发展。

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This thesis is concerned with an emergent sustainable development approach attracting appreciable attention among government and non-governmental actors in South Africa. Although this approach's distinct integration of biodiversity conservation and climate change concerns is in and of itself unique, this thesis pursues a more compelling explanation for its increasing popularity. This thesis contends, rather, that the present appeal of an "integrated approach" stems from its relevance to a wider set of socioeconomic aspirations and ulterior motives in South Africa's post-apartheid transition. Evident fascination with this integrated approach can be linked, moreover, to specific issues of topical interest in South African politics, including: geopolitical influence; poverty alleviation; and inclusive social empowerment through equal economic opportunity. While this paper mentions non-governmental understandings as an important point of comparison, its primary preoccupation rests with the significance state actors within the presiding African National Congress (ANC) leadership attribute to this integrated approach. Correspondingly, this thesis mainly intends to critically interpret an apparent disconnect between promise (e.g. political rhetoric) and practice (e.g. policy implementation) on part of the ANC government. As a supporting objective, this paper also confronts tensions within an integrated approach's central assumptions, such as the presumed compatibility between environmental sustainability and economic development. The identified promise-practice mismatch and contradictions in environment-economic couplings can be assessed through three dimensions of South African politics, specified by this paper as: legal-normative; economic; and ideological---accordingly, these three areas make up the body chapters organizing this paper's presented findings. Marshaling evidence from available scholarly and practitioner literature, government publications, substantive news articles, anecdotal observations, and stakeholder interviews, this thesis identifies several enabling and constraining factors impacting the fruition of an "inclusive sustainable development" model associated with an integrated approach. Findings imply that constraining factors outweigh enabling ones. Consequently, the analysis concludes that while an integrated approach offers vast prospects for just and socially desirable change in South Africa, its potential to positively transform environment and development ethics is seriously impeded by lack of government foresight and willpower in the midst of prevailing power considerations and turbulent domestic politics.
机译：本文关注的是一种新兴的可持续发展方法，该方法引起了南非政府和非政府行为者的极大关注。尽管这种方法将生物多样性保护与气候变化关注点的独特结合本身是独特的，但本文仍对其受欢迎程度进行了更具说服力的解释。该论点反而是说，“一体化方法”的当前吸引力源于它与南非种族隔离后过渡时期更广泛的社会经济诉求和别有用心的相关性。而且，对这种综合方法的明显迷恋可以与南非政治中引起关注的具体问题联系起来，包括：地缘政治影响；扶贫;通过平等的经济机会实现包容的社会赋权。尽管本文将非政府理解作为比较的重要点，但其首要关注在于主持此会议的非洲人国民大会（ANC）领导层中国家行为者的重要性。相应地，本论文主要旨在批判性地解释ANC政府的承诺（例如政治言论）与实践（例如政策实施）之间的明显脱节。作为支持目标，本文还面临着综合方法中心假设（例如环境可持续性与经济发展之间的假定兼容性）内的紧张关系。可以通过南非政治的三个方面来评估已确定的承诺－实践不匹配和环境经济耦合中的矛盾，本文将这些方面指定为：法律规范；经济;和意识形态-相应地，这三个领域构成了组织本论文提出的发现的正文章节。从现有的学者和从业者文献，政府出版物，实质性新闻文章，轶事观察和利益相关者访谈中收集证据，本论文确定了影响与综合方法相关的“包容性可持续发展”模式的成果的几个促成和制约因素。研究结果表明，约束因素胜过使能因素。因此，分析得出的结论是，尽管综合方法为南非的公正和社会可取的变化提供了广阔的前景，但由于普遍的权力考虑和缺乏政府的远见和意志力，严重阻碍了其积极改变环境和发展道德的潜力。动荡的国内政治。

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    Olson, Emilie A.;

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    University of California, Santa Barbara.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Santa Barbara.;
  • 学科 Environmental justice.;African studies.;Climate change.;Sustainability.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2013
  • 页码 160 p.
  • 总页数 160
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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