South Africa's Three Waves of Environmental Policy: (Mis)aligning the Goals of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice and Climate Change

摘要: Three distinct but overlapping policy objectives have influenced environmental policy, structures and processes in contemporary large South African cities: sustainable development, justice adapting mitigating for climate change. These goals been characterized here as three waves of urban policy. This paper responds to the position that sustainability, change interventions must be aligned. Despite global national commitment this objective, evidence suggests injustices a lack sustainability persist all waves, spite efforts. What's more is these disjunctures are not confined Africa, or even south, experienced globally. The wisdom behind calls aligning therefore questioned through review illustrates despite apparent similarities between objective addressing environment development concerns, motivations distinct, governance arrangements tools implementation. By focusing on distinctions modes governance, provides nuanced perspective what it means govern at scale.