This is the first work to offer a critical analysis of the implementation of environmental law in South Africa. Leading environmental law practitioners and academics assess the current environmental compliance and enforcement regime and how it can be harnessed to secure ecologically sustainable development. After discussing the theoretical underpinnings of environmental compliance and enforcement and its position within South Africa's broad legal framework, the text examines an array of specific issues and regulatory measures of key relevance to its practical realisation. These include compliance and enforcement institutions, environmental governance, environmental rights and locus standi, administrative justice, access to information, administrative measures, criminal measures, voluntary compliance measures, incentive-based measures, and the role of common-law remedies in protecting the environment.
Language
English
Pages
404
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Juta
Release
May 20, 2022
ISBN
0702179620
ISBN 13
0702179620
Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in South Africa: Legal Perspectives
This is the first work to offer a critical analysis of the implementation of environmental law in South Africa. Leading environmental law practitioners and academics assess the current environmental compliance and enforcement regime and how it can be harnessed to secure ecologically sustainable development. After discussing the theoretical underpinnings of environmental compliance and enforcement and its position within South Africa's broad legal framework, the text examines an array of specific issues and regulatory measures of key relevance to its practical realisation. These include compliance and enforcement institutions, environmental governance, environmental rights and locus standi, administrative justice, access to information, administrative measures, criminal measures, voluntary compliance measures, incentive-based measures, and the role of common-law remedies in protecting the environment.