ENVIRONMENT

Anderson, B.A., Wentzel, M., Romani, J.H. & Phillips, H. (2011) Exploring environmental consciousness in South Africa. In: Kondlo, K. & Ejiogu, C. (eds). Governance in the 21st century. (Africa in Focus). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 130-145.

Anderson, B.A., Wentzel, M., Romani, J.H. & Phillips, H. (2010) Exploring environmental consciousness in South Africa. (Commissioned by the Population Studies Center (Report 10-709), June).

This paper explores the relationships between perceptions, behaviors and awareness regarding four environmental conditions in South Africa: water pollution, land degradation, air pollution and littering. Data from the 2004 General Household Survey are used. First, the extent to which these perceptions, behaviors and levels of awareness correspond to those found in other parts of the world is as...

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Bosman, M.A. (2000) National co-operative programme for human needs, resources and the environment. (Report to the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism for the period April 1999 to March 2000).

Reports on the activities of the National Co-operative Programme for Human Needs Resources and the Environment for the period April 1999 to March 2000.

Drimie, S. & Mini, S.. (2003) Food security and sustainable development in southern Africa. (Integrated Rural and Regional Development Research Programme, Occasional paper no. 6). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.

In the search for a Global Deal at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which sought to address global economic relationships between the North and the South, a crucial area of debate was food security. Despite impressive developments around food growth in recent decades, resulting in enough food to meet the basic needs of every person in the world, not everyone is food-secure, as exemp...

Janse van Rensburg, E., Hattingh, J. & O'Donoghue, R. (eds). (2002) Environmental education, ethics and action in southern Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.

Environmental practitioners open a window onto environmental challenges in diverse African contexts. Non-specialists and scholars can see how Malawian officials and community leaders, new to multi-level governance, take up the challenge of environmental management in villages and districts; Ugandan small-scale farmers in partnership with NGOs try to produce sustainably for household and interna...

Mchiza, Z., Goedecke, J. & Lambert, E. (2011) Like mother, like daughter: do perceptions run in the family?. HSRC Review. 9(3):6-7.

The effects of family environment and ethnicity on body image should be considered when designing health interventions to prevent the development of obesity, suggest the findings of a study by ZANDILE MCHIZA, JULIA GOEDECKE and ESTELLE LAMBERT.

Schneider, M. (2006) Disablity and the environment. In Disability and social change: a South African agenda. Watermeyer, B., Swartz, L., Lorenzo, T., Schneider, M. & Priestley, M. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 8-18.

Schwabe, C.A. (2002) Environmental concerns. In Public attitudes in contemporary SA: insights from an HSRC survey. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council. 113-123.

Seager, J. (2006) Quality of life, poverty and environment. (Paper presented to the National Environmental Advirosry Forum, Mainstreaming of the Environment into Development Issueas and Opportunities relatin to AsgiSA, Pretoria, 3 October).

Shapiro, Y.T. (1999) Participant graduates in SA, aged <=65, with environmental qualifications on the HSRC register of graduates as at November 1999. (Contact GIS Centre for access rights on 012-3022014).

Database report on participant graduates in South Africa, aged 65 years and under, with environmental qualifications on the HSRC register of graduates as at November 1999.

Struwig, J. (2010) South Africans' attitudes towards the environment. In: Roberts, B., Kivilu, M. wa & Davids, Y.D. (eds). South African Social Attitudes: 2nd report: reflections on the age of hope. (South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS)). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 198-219.

The intention of this chapter is to test if demographic factors, internal factors or external factors affect environmental concern, as well as to test which other social values or disparities impact on South Africans' environmental perceptions.

Struwig, J. (2009) An embracing nature: who cares for the environment?. HSRC Review. 7(4):14-15.

Conventional wisdom has it that people who are pre-occupied with their material survival are much less concerned about the environment and view the environment as a resource to be utilised rather than protected. But data from the SASAS 2004 survey challenge this notion. Jare Struwig explains how.

Venter, S.C.J. (ed). (2000) Report for 2000 on GLOBE programme. (Report submitted to DACST).