Thesis (PhD) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation traces the development of environmental assessment and environmental
ethics as these disciplines have evolved independently in response to the global
environmental crisis. The aim is to determine the extent to which they can promote the
integration of the dissociated objective and subjective spheres of human valuation of the
environment. This is a necessary condition, it is argued, for arresting the pathology in the
human-environment relationship. The study concludes that both disciplines were initially
trapped in narrow, monistic approaches, which rendered them largely ineffective. However,
their evolutionary advancement, and a common grounding in a radical conceptualization of
sustainable development, greatly enhances their usefulness in environmental decisionmaking. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verhandeling ondersoek die evolusionêre ontwikkeling van omgewingsimpakbepaling en
die filosofie van omgewingsetika, na die ontstaan van die twee disiplines in reaksie tot die
globale omgewingskrisis. Die studiedoelwit is om te bepaal tot watter mate hulle die
integrasie van die gedissosieerde objektiewe en die subjektiewe sfere van
menslikeomgewingswaardering kan bevorder. Daar word geredeneer dat sodanige
integrasie noodsaaklik is om die patologie in die verhouding tussen die mens en sy
omgewing te stuit. Die belangrikste gevolgtrekking is dat beide disiplines, tydens hulle
aanvangsstadia, vasgeval was in 'n monistiese benadering wat hul doeltreffendheid
belemmer het. Die onlangse ontwikkeling van omgewingsimpakbepaling en omgewingsetika,
sowel as 'n gemeenskaplike uitgangspunt binne 'n radikale vertolking van volhoubare
ontwikkeling, versterk grootliks hulle bruikbaarheid vir omgewingsbesluitneming.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/52735 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Burns, Michael Edmund Reid |
| Contributors | Hattingh, J. P., Canter, L. W., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | Unknown |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 277 p. : ill. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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