#64: National Environmental Management Act

The aim of acts of this kind is to provide for integrated and cooperative environmental

Governance can be defined as the various institutionalised modes of social coordination to produce and implement collectively binding rules, or to provide collective goods (Börzel & Risse, 2010,p. 114).

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2010). Governance Without a State: Can It Work? Regulation & Governance, 4(2), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01076.x

by establishing principles for decision-making on matters affecting the environment.

The act charges institutions with promoting cooperative

Governance can be defined as the various institutionalised modes of social coordination to produce and implement collectively binding rules, or to provide collective goods (Börzel & Risse, 2010,p. 114).

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2010). Governance Without a State: Can It Work? Regulation & Governance, 4(2), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01076.x

and procedures for coordinating environmental functions exercised by organs of site, as well as providing for matters connected therewith.

The aim of the National Environmental Management Act in South Africa is to design a cooperative environmental

Governance can be defined as the various institutionalised modes of social coordination to produce and implement collectively binding rules, or to provide collective goods (Börzel & Risse, 2010,p. 114).

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2010). Governance Without a State: Can It Work? Regulation & Governance, 4(2), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01076.x

, and to guide development. By laying down, among other aspects, the principles of protection of people’s social interest, the equitable access to environmental resources, and the responsibility for the consequences of policy on the environment, this legislation aims to promote an integrated environmental management. With this is meant a path of development that is socially and environmentally sustainable, besides the more immediate economic aspects anyways mentioned as a necessary components of the country’s vision of its future.