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South Africa's Green Economy Transition: Implications for Reorienting the Economy Towards a Low Carbon Growth Trajectory
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kaggwa, Martin Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious Nhamo, Godwell |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | The notion of green economies seems to have gained momentum in both developed and developing countries. For South Africa, the transition to a green economy presents a mix of challenges and opportunities. This stems from the fact that South Africa faces myriad socio-economic realities that force the country to maintain a generation of industries that contribute directly to the production of greenhouse gases in order to reduce unemployment, poverty and inequality. This paper provides an overview of South Africa’s attempts to migrate to a green economy. It specifically looks at the domestic and continental implications of South Africa’s reorientation of its economy towards a low-carbon growth path. While the country has managed to put together impressive policies meant to steer it onto a trajectory of low carbon economic growth, the realities facing South Africa point to an opposite direction. A b o u t t h e A u t h o r S Shingirirai Savious Mutanga is a Research Specialist in the Science and Technology Programme of the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA). He holds an MSc in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management from a consortium of four universities, namely Southampton (UK), Lund (Sweden), Warsaw (Poland) and ITC (Netherlands) under the auspices of the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. His research interests are focussed on modelling global environmental issues, with a special focus on applied GIS, remote sensing and systems dynamics on ecosystems transformation, climate change and energy. His email is SMutanga@ai.org.za. Martin Kaggwa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). He specialises in formalisation and modelling of policy interventions as a means of supporting policy decisions in the inter-interdisciplinary area of economics, technology and science policy. His email is Kaggwam@tut.ac.za. Thokozani Simelane is Director of Research at AISA. He holds a PhD in Bio-diversity Management and is finalising his Doctor of Technology in Industrial Engineering. He is also a member of the standing Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and a technical assessor for South African National Accreditation Systems. His email is TSimelane@ai.org.za. Godwell Nhamo is a Full Professor and holds the Exxaro Chair in Business and Climate Change, hosted by the Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has published widely on the green economy, climate change and other related environmental topics. His email is nhamog@unisa.ac.za. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/sites/default/files/downloads/resource/south_africas_green_economy_transition_implications_for_reorienting_the_economy_towards_a_low_carbon_growth_trajectory_SAII.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.africaportal.org/documents/11235/saia_sop_168_mutanga_et_al_20131231.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
