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1	Udržitelný rozvoj v Kanadě ve vztahu k těžbě ropných písků / Sustainable Development in Canada in Relation to Oil Sands Developments Podhola, Adam January 2013 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to evaluate to what extent Canada and Alberta have been fulfilling the principles of sustainable development as they have adopted in the 1990s from the essential U.N. documents - the Brundtland Report and the Rio Declaration- and to what extent both governments failed in providing and enforcing efficient environmental law protection as it is the basic premise for achieving sustainability. I assessed this level of sustainability in Canada and Alberta on the basis of a stronger and weaker sustainability theoretical framework. Author's presumption was that Canada, as it defined sustainable development in its legislation, acted according to stronger sustainability, which emphasizes stronger protective environmental measures. Given a very large scope of environmental impacts of oil extraction on different ecosystems, the sector of water resources was selected to serve as a case study to compare and analyze government and alternative reports assessing the sustainability of water management. Thus, the author follows how the oil industry in Alberta affects the water resources and how both governments of Canada and Alberta provide environmental protection to the water resources. In this respect the author illustrates how the government is reluctant towards the implementation of...
2	Water use and sustainable development in South Africa Ukwandu, Damian Chukwudi 11 1900 (has links) This study is non-empirical and is based on the conceptualisations and theoretical foundations that gave rise to the global issue of sustainable development. It also traces the evolution and meaning of sustainable development in the South African socio-cultural context, and shows how the legacies of colonialism and apartheid contributed towards the national policy of sustainable development. This study explains the reasons for the presence (or lack) of sustainable development paradigms in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, as well as their implications for the future development of the country as a whole. There is also an analysis of the effects of the liberalisation of the water sector on the citizenry, and how this can disempower millions of poor South Africans. Finally, this study offers solutions for the lack of sustainable use of water in South Africa. Amongst the findings and conclusions are the deleterious effects of employment equity, cut-backs in municipal funding that resulted in the outsourcing of critical services such as water provision, and the deployment of party cadres to local councils. / Human Resources / M.A. (Development Studies) Sustainable development Department of Water Affairs and Forestry Water Research Commission Palmer Development Group Marginalisation Poverty alleviation Bantu education Commercialisation Sustainability Development and underdevelopment Developed and developing societies Colonial and apartheid legacies Development and natural capital Development and moral capital Water and development Water and sanitation Water and poverty alleviation Neoliberalism 333.9100968 Water -- South Africa -- Management Sustainable development -- South Africa
3	Water use and sustainable development in South Africa Ukwandu, Damian Chukwudi 11 1900 (has links) This study is non-empirical and is based on the conceptualisations and theoretical foundations that gave rise to the global issue of sustainable development. It also traces the evolution and meaning of sustainable development in the South African socio-cultural context, and shows how the legacies of colonialism and apartheid contributed towards the national policy of sustainable development. This study explains the reasons for the presence (or lack) of sustainable development paradigms in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, as well as their implications for the future development of the country as a whole. There is also an analysis of the effects of the liberalisation of the water sector on the citizenry, and how this can disempower millions of poor South Africans. Finally, this study offers solutions for the lack of sustainable use of water in South Africa. Amongst the findings and conclusions are the deleterious effects of employment equity, cut-backs in municipal funding that resulted in the outsourcing of critical services such as water provision, and the deployment of party cadres to local councils. / Human Resources / M.A. (Development Studies) Sustainable development Department of Water Affairs and Forestry Water Research Commission Palmer Development Group Marginalisation Poverty alleviation Bantu education Commercialisation Sustainability Development and underdevelopment Developed and developing societies Colonial and apartheid legacies Development and natural capital Development and moral capital Water and development Water and sanitation Water and poverty alleviation Neoliberalism 333.9100968 Water -- South Africa -- Management Sustainable development -- South Africa

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