The Relationship between Planning and Environmental Management in South Africa: The Case of KwaZulu-Natal

Todes, Alison; Sim, Vicky; Sutherland, Cathy

doi:10.1080/02697450903327022

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“…Todes et al [11] conclude that planning in the post-apartheid period focused on facilitation, with an emphasis on reconstruction and development. Planning instruments such as the IDP process (strategic planning) and the introduction of Spatial Development Frameworks (SDFs) as well as other sectoral plans were introduced.…”

Section: Influence Of Spatial Planning Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The deduction by Todes et al [11] is based on the work developed by Vigar et al [13]. Todes et al [11] conclude, in general, that there is a need for greater integration between planning and environmental management in context with the assessment components identified earlier. It is concluded that integration is more than a technical process.…”

Section: Introduction To Alignment and Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Co-operation between planning-related and other disciplines is thus a focal consideration in promoting alignment and integration. Todes et al [11] state that the need for integration may be addressed through:…”

Section: Role Of Education and Training In Professions And Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This balance is, however, being impacted upon in a negative sense, due to the fact that this relationship is not addressed and reflected on in the application of planning instruments, tools and implementation by all spheres of government and professions involved. Todes et al [11] and Berrisford and Kihato [8] provide the reasons for this misalignment. It results in impacts such as ecological degradation, widening of development inequality, segregation and compartmentalization of planning, and non-delivery.…”

Section: Introduction To Alignment and Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Todes et al [11] address the relationship between planning and environmental management in South Africa based on a case study for the provincial spatial system of KwaZulu-Natal. From the outcome, specific research elements inclusive of purpose, method and evidence base are identified to demonstrate the relationship between planning and environmental management across spheres of government, tools applied and types of plans.…”

Section: Introduction To Alignment and Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Alignment of Spatial, Transportation and Environmental Planning: Practices Underpinning Strategic Approaches in Developing Countries

Schoeman¹,

Schoeman²

2017

WIT Transactions on State-of-the-Art in Science and Engineering

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The debate and discourse for the need to align spatial planning, transportation planning and environmental management strategically, functionally and operationally to inform modelling is ongoing internationally since the early 2000s. This incorporates the articulation of the planning instruments used by the professionals within these functional fields and the way in which it is coordinated and applied as to enhance strategic planning and decision making.With the approval of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (SPLUMA) (Act 16 of 2013) and the SPLUMA Regulations (23 March 2015) in South Africa, the last bastion of 'Apartheid' planning legislation from the previous political dispensation was reformed. Although this process is still legislatively being finalized at provincial and municipal levels of government through adapting new transformation structures, guidelines, policies and regulations, the opportunity exists to assess the impacts of alignment to improve strategic planning, modelling, coordination and decision making.In this chapter the alignment between the policy and legislative frameworks, guidelines, processes and the need for integration will be discussed. The approach presented in this paper will especially guide planning within developing countries based on the learning experiences from spatial systems in developed countries.

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Section: Introduction To Alignment and Integrationmentioning

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Section: Role Of Education and Training In Professions And Capacitymentioning

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Reinventing Planning: Critical Reflections

Todes

2011

Urban Forum

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There is a growing acceptance in international development circles of the contribution a revitalised planning can make to addressing key urban challenges. Current expectations that planning can play roles in managing the growth of cities in ways that promote their sustainability, inclusiveness and liveability, contrasts with past perceptions of planning as an irrelevant discipline obsessed with spatial ordering and control. This paper considers whether the new forms of planning can address the challenges facing cities, with particular reference to the South African context. It does so through providing an overview of the shift in thinking about planning, and reflecting on the new agendas for planning as well as on some of their silences. It argues that the new approaches need to be understood in terms of contemporary urban and planning theories which are rethinking the nature of planning and its relationship to power and institutions, and which view cities as complex, dynamic places, embodying multiple interests and spatialities. These perspectives can help to enrich our understanding of the new approaches to planning, and to avoid ineffectiveness or a return to the negative elements of modernist planning of the past. The paper demonstrates the argument through focusing on some of the recent themes that have received attention in the contemporary international agendas for planning: the cross-cutting themes of sustainability and gender; the infrastructural turn in planning; and the ambiguities of the compact city. While these are quite particular concerns, they highlight the complexities of institutionalising the new approaches to planning, and ways of thinking about spatial planning.

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Environmental assessments for the greening of public infrastructure in South Africa

Patel¹,

Giordano²

2014

Development Southern Africa

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South Africa has announced another massive investment plan in infrastructure, amounting to R3.2 billion. This plan takes the guise of a National Infrastructure Plan made up of more than 150 projects clustered into 18 strategic infrastructure projects. Most of these projects consist of long-lived social and economic infrastructures planned to deliver services for many decades. Meanwhile, South Africa is reaching its environmental boundaries and faces a crucial need to reduce the environmental impacts of its development path. Owing to the lump-sum investment the projects represent and the lock-in effects they induce once projects are built, long-lived infrastructure projects have to be part and parcel of the country's decoupling strategy to sustain service delivery over the long term, and thereby support economic growth and service access. This paper seeks to highlight the role that environmental impact assessments and strategic environmental assessments could play in supporting the greening of public infrastructure as a decoupling means for South Africa. (Résumé d'auteur

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The Relationship between Planning and Environmental Management in South Africa: The Case of KwaZulu-Natal

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Alignment of Spatial, Transportation and Environmental Planning: Practices Underpinning Strategic Approaches in Developing Countries

Alignment of Spatial, Transportation and Environmental Planning: Practices Underpinning Strategic Approaches in Developing Countries

Reinventing Planning: Critical Reflections

Environmental assessments for the greening of public infrastructure in South Africa

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