Environmental Education
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Southern Africa, defined as the region within the southern African Development Community (SADC) is richly endowed with diverse biodiversity and excellent ecosystem services. It is also rich in its diverse people, numbering nearly 300 million, who
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Environmental ethics is a sub-division of professional and applied ethics that concerns itself with the responsibilities that we as humans have in our interactions with the environment.
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Also known as Green Industries, the Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) sector comprises the set of companies which provide products and services to measure, prevent, reduce or reverse damage to the natural environment and the depletion or pol
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Environmental health describes those factors of human health that are determined or affected by environmental influences.
Read more about Environmental HealthEnvironmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
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Environmental Impact Assessments, or EIAs, are a key tool in effective environmental management. Section 24 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, calls on the State to secure everyone the right to an environment that is not h
Read more about Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)Environmental Justice
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Environmental justice tries to right the wrongs of past practices, which put the poor and the disadvantaged next to dirty and polluting industries or on poor and degraded land. It tries to ensure that the wrongs are not repeated.
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South African law regards the environment as a public trust to be conserved and protected for the benefit of all. Consequently if the environment is harmed, the law makes provision for holding a range of people responsible through imposing crimin
Read more about Environmental Law and LiabilityEnvironmental Management
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Environmental management took on real impetus in the aftermath of the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, with further impetus specific to industry and business provided with the publication of the first edition of ISO 14001 in 1996.
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Environmental management is a deliberate, multi-disciplinary process, which requires careful preparation and planning.
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Care for the environment includes concern about how industry manufactures products and the impact that such products and manufacturing processes could have on the environment. Controlling this requires a documented environmental management system (EM
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