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Environmental issues and management strategies in Metropolitan Cape Town

Environmental issues and management strategies in Metropolitan Cape Town ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN METROPOLITAN CAPE TOWN A.J.R. QUICK AND P.a. PISTORIUS In the context of rapid urban growth in Metropolitan Cape Town, planners and natural resource managers are faced with two distinct sets of environmental issues. These are related to the extremes of poverty and wealth in the city. A large percentage of the city's population lives in conditions of poverty and lacks access to environmental resources, while other communities indulge in resource- intensive lifestyles characterised by overconsumption and high wastage. Both patterns of consumption create environmental stresses which threaten the sustainability of natural systems in the city region. Cape Town manifests many of the health and environmental problems which are typically associated with poverty and rapid urban growth in Third World cities (Clark 1991; Stren and White 1989; Hardoy et al. 1992; Leitman et al. 1992; Devas and Rakodi 1993). Conditions of deprivation in parts of Cape Town give rise to degraded living environments and pollution related to inadequate services and waste removal. In addition, the poor usually inhabit the areas least suitable for occupation, and thus suffer locational disadvantages. At the other extreme are the typical environmental problems recorded in the cities of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Environmental issues and management strategies in Metropolitan Cape Town

Quick, A.; Pistorius, P.
Urban Forum , Volume 5 (2) – Apr 4, 2009
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Springer Journals
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Social Sciences; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science; Sociology, general
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1015-3802
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1874-6330
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN METROPOLITAN CAPE TOWN A.J.R. QUICK AND P.a. PISTORIUS In the context of rapid urban growth in Metropolitan Cape Town, planners and natural resource managers are faced with two distinct sets of environmental issues. These are related to the extremes of poverty and wealth in the city. A large percentage of the city's population lives in conditions of poverty and lacks access to environmental resources, while other communities indulge in resource- intensive lifestyles characterised by overconsumption and high wastage. Both patterns of consumption create environmental stresses which threaten the sustainability of natural systems in the city region. Cape Town manifests many of the health and environmental problems which are typically associated with poverty and rapid urban growth in Third World cities (Clark 1991; Stren and White 1989; Hardoy et al. 1992; Leitman et al. 1992; Devas and Rakodi 1993). Conditions of deprivation in parts of Cape Town give rise to degraded living environments and pollution related to inadequate services and waste removal. In addition, the poor usually inhabit the areas least suitable for occupation, and thus suffer locational disadvantages. At the other extreme are the typical environmental problems recorded in the cities of the

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Published: Apr 4, 2009

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