The classic environment theories and their usefulness in South Africa. 

Max Weber speaks on the struggle of finding natural resources and the conflict that arises when the rich take control of the resources such as control over irrigation. Emile Durkheim, structural functionalism is focused on our functions in a way to adapt to environment change. In South Africa we have different climates in the different parts of our country. So all the environmental problems within society and resilience, because although people need to change their behavior and accept the challenges their faced with and in South Africa it is not possible. Despite being only mildly concerned with environment deterioration, their examination of social structure and social development serves as the foundation for several significant current environment ideas.