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Factors Explaining Households’ Cash Payment for Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling Behaviors in South Africa

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
land degradation
Environmental safety is one of the top policy priorities in some developing countries. This study analyzed the factors influencing waste disposal and recycling by households in South Africa. The data were collected by Statistics South Africa in 2012 during the General Household Survey (GHS). Analysis of the data was carried out with the Bivariate Probit model. The results showed that 56.03% and 31.98% of all the households disposed waste through local authority/private companies and own refuse dump sites, respectively.
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King's culture call is all about land

January, 2015
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
land
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Gains for women from farmland redistribution in South Africa and sustainable pathways out of poverty: insights from recent evidence

January, 2016
South Africa
Land & Gender
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
women
farmland
poverty
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Namibia Child Care and Protection Act

January, 2015
Namibia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
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Namibia: Good Practices and Lessons Learned for Gender and Communal Land

January, 2016
Namibia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
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Land, Law and Traditional Leadership in South Africa

January, 2016
South Africa
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
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Durban’s port-petrochemical complex as a site of economic and environmental violence

Reports & Research
January, 2015
South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land rights
land use
A proposed massive expansion of a petrochemical complex in South Durban’s port area has come under criticism for both economic and environmental violence. The recent history of cities becoming hyperactive export platforms is not merely a function of globalisation. Public policy is a factor, and especially the intellectual project of urban neoliberalism; the strategy was explicit in South Africa’s transition from apartheid to export-oriented neoliberalism.
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The Economics of Land Degradation in Africa_Benefits of Action Outweigh the Costs_A complementary report to the ELD Initiative

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2015
Northern Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Eastern Africa, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Middle Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Western Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
desertification
land degradation
Land degradation and desertification are among the biggest environmental challenges of our time. In the last 40 years, we lost nearly a third of the world’s arable farmland due to erosion, just as the number of people to be fed from it almost doubled. That’s why the UN General Assembly declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. And the good news is that this new report shows that while Africa remains the most severely a«ected region, the benefit of taking action across the continent outweighs the cost of implementing it: not just by a little, but by a factor of seven.
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Corporate social responsibility in South Africa’s mining industry: an assessment

January, 2015
South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
mining
assessment
extractive industries
The corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda has been a part of the global debate on socio-economic development for many decades. Countless claims have been made that CSR can contribute towards more inclusive development and the alleviation of poverty. This briefing examines the concept and role of CSR in the mining industry of South Africa. The mining case study reviewed here demonstrates that key implementation challenges are a lack of co-ordination and alignment with the government’s development plans, at both national and local level, coupled with weak monitoring and evaluation.
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Land, biodiversity and extractive industries in southern Africa: How effective are legal and institutional frameworks in protecting people and the environment?

January, 2016
South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land
extractive industries
In the natural resources sector, laws are often formulated to regulate the relationship between men and the environment. Ideally, the law can play a vital role in regulating and protecting communities from adverse environmental and social impacts of mining, loss of land, biodiversity and natural wealth, as well as other human rights violations. Almost all countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have developed laws and institutions to regulate and monitor the extraction of mineral resources and their impact on the environment and people.