The book is compiled in the spirit of the Presidential Climate Commission—promoting This is what climate adaptation in South Africa looks like; it is ingenuity in the face our citizens’ capacity to engage in and influence the decisions that impact their lives. [...] While mitigating climate change—through socio-ecological well-being, a state defined as sustained ecological resilience in which a just transition away from fossil fuels—has been the defining response, the need to ‘human needs are met and the quality of life of individuals is maintained’ (Brueckner-Ir- build resilience against the inevitable effects of a changing climate is a central point in win. [...] the financial sector and capital accounts, investments by companies linked to the MEC are mainly in short-term and a high level of diversity in adaptation and livelihood options, as well as a high degree of speculative financial assets, rather than equity). [...] Added to this, the sidelining of public investment, and the waste of public resources through Three features of South Africa’s political economy have contributed to the country’s corruption and maladministration, has been reinforced by austerity measures, reducing socio-ecological crises: the fossil-fuel-dependent system of capitalist accumulation, the the ability of sustainable and productive sec. [...] The historical location of mineral endowments in Johannesburg and Tshwane and fractions of capital that shape economic policy in their favour through conflict and spurred the growth and concentration of industrial activity, particularly heavy industry compromise.
- Pages
- 69
- Published in
- South Africa
