This unique seminal work is the only book which comprehensively addresses current environmental management in South Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The third edition of Fuggle & Rabie’s Environmental Management in South Africa sheds light on the legal frameworks in regional and international environmental law, administrative law and the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA).

Key Benefits

• Environmental themes cover both science and the law
• Environmental law is dealt with from administrative law, domestic, regional and international perspectives
• Includes new chapters on social dimensions, local government, and international financial institutions
• Written in a non-technical lucid style making this book ideal for the interested layperson as well as those directly involved in environmental management in South Africa

Key themes addressed in environmental management, including agriculture and soils, air quality, biodiversity, climate change, energy, the coast, economics, trade and the role of financial institutions (among others), are covered from both scientific and legal perspectives.

• Environmental management and environmental law in South Africa – J Nel & R Alberts
• Essentialia of international environmental law – H Strydom
• SADC environmental law – W Lubbe
• National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) – M Oosthuizen, M van der Linde & E Basson
• Administrative law and implementation of environmental law – M Kidd
• Local government and the pursuit of urban sustainability in South Africa – A du Plessis
• Soil, land management and agriculture – T Meyer, E Verster, A Hattingh, N Olivier, W du Plessis & T Snow
• Water resources in South Africa – V Wepener, W Malherbe & N Smit
• Air quality – O Rumble, A Gilder, L Burger, G Kornelius & H Liebenberg-Enslin
• Energy – H Strydom & E Cairncross
• Biological diversity – A Patterson
• Marine Environments, Oceans Law and Governance – B MacLean & J Glazewski
• The coast – C Cullinan, M Groenink & Bruce Glavovic
• Climate change – A Gilder & E Swanepoel
• Environmental and resource economics – J Turpie
• Trade and the environment – L Feris & V Bondi 
• Terrestrial and deep seabed mining – I Watson, T Humby, M Hermanus & S Moodliar
• The safeguard policies of international financial institutions – R Fuggle
• Water quality management – M Kidd, R Alberts & C Bosman
• Integrated waste management – R Alberts, C Roos & C Bosman
• Protected areas – H Strydom & N King
• The law on planning and the environment – J van Wyk
• The social dimension of environmental management – I Aucamp, N King & F Retief
• Integrated environmental assessment and management – M Kidd, F Retief & R Albert

• Conservation agencies
• Environmental consultants
• Environmental lawyers
• Environmental NGOs
• Impact assessors
• National, provincial and local government departments dealing with environmental management
• Students of environmental law