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Environmental law in a developing country, Botswana

This paper outlines the current state of environmental legislation and administration in Botswana,
identifying the various problems with that system. Those problems include fragmented and
overlapping administration and out-dated legislation that is not in keeping with modem, holistic
approaches to environmental management, ineffective and unreliable enforcement, compounded
by rampant non-compliance. The paper then considers some the developments that are being
made to improve this situation, including: the conversion of the environmental agency into a
department and the introduction of an over-reaching environmental Act, preparation of a wetlands
conservation strategy, the introduction of environmental impact assessment legislation. The
paper concludes by querying the effectiveness of those developments when unsustainable
attitudes continue to predominate in the country / Law / LL.M.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/16784
Date11 1900
CreatorsFink, Susan E.
ContributorsBray, w.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format1 online resource (iii, 46 leaves)

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