Incorporation of environmental issues in South Africa’s municipal Integrated Development Plans

摘要: The transition to full democracy in South Africa 1994 saw local government becoming the focal point for dealing with socio-economic development needs of communities. Integrated Development Plan (IDP) has been used as tool guiding objectives, balanced against environmental demands within a sustainable paradigm. Here we examine extent which this is being achieved through an analysis IDPs from 35 different municipalities at three scales. We test hypothesis that metropolitan are better mainstreaming issues into their than and district municipalities. Results indicate still low. metropoles was not accepted since there were no significant differences between There low relative budget allocations inclusion vision mission ...