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Rhetoric or action: Are South African municipalities planning for climate change?

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  • Willemien Faling
  • Johann WN Tempelhoff
  • Dewald van Niekerk

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In 2008 the South African National Disaster Management Centre commissioned a study into measures taken by local municipalities to plan for climate change. Two areas were selected for their dissimilar climatic challenges: the //Khara Hais Municipality,1 a semi-desert area in the Northern Cape Province plagued by droughts and severe weather events, and the George Municipality, an area in the Western Cape Province plagued by droughts, the rising sea level and flash floods. It was found that despite South African laws and regulations requiring local government to take action to reduce the risk of disasters, planning for climate change is still no more than sophisticated rhetoric in the two municipalities. This lack of urgency can be ascribed to local municipalities having other more pressing developmental priorities. It would, however, be short-sighted of municipalities not to plan for climate change, as major setbacks in hard-won economic and social development follow a disaster. -super-1The // spelling represents the click consonant in the Kxoe language that the name comes from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki///Khara_Hais_Local_Municipality

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  • Willemien Faling & Johann WN Tempelhoff & Dewald van Niekerk, 2012. "Rhetoric or action: Are South African municipalities planning for climate change?," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 241-257, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:29:y:2012:i:2:p:241-257
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2012.675695
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    1. Vanesa Castán Broto & Linda K. Westman, 2020. "Ten years after Copenhagen: Reimagining climate change governance in urban areas," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(4), July.
    2. Christian M Rogerson, 2016. "Climate change, tourism and local economic development in South Africa," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 31(1-2), pages 322-331, February.

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