Die verband tussen biosfeerreservate en omgewingsbestuur in Suid-Afrika

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Internationally a reconciliation of man and nature is taking place in environmentalmanagement, a movement in the direction of sustain ability. This movement alsodeveloped in South Africa, but against the background of the characteristics of thepost-Apartheid phase in which the country is still at present. Various developmentprogrammes are undertaken in the name of sustainability, while in actual practice thefull potential of existing environmental management tools for proactive, integratedenvironmental management and therefore the assurance of sustainability are notemployed.In the time of rapid change in which South Africa is at present, it is important that anintegrated, holistic, proactive, multi-disciplinary approach should be followed inenvironmental management. It is also important that the public should form part ofthe events, so that a learning process can take place in which shared visions andobjectives for sustainable development can be identified.In the this study it was found that the model of the biosphere reserve offers amechanism for planning based on public participation and the proactive demarcationof zones for the different functions of it. The concept of a biosphere reserve hasvarious characteristics which give it the potential to offer a good framework forenvironmental management, if it can be executed in an integrated way. From the casestudy it is clear that there are various stumbling-blocks for the implementation of thebiosphere reserve concept in South Africa. The country is therefore in the process offorming co-ordinating bodies on provincial as well as national level with the purposeof addressing several of these stumbling-blocks.Moss (2000) said the following at a seminar in this regard: Rather than formingislands in a world increasingly affected by severe human impacts, they can becometheatres for reconciling people and nature; they can bring knowledge of the past tothe needs of the future.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University