South Africa aspires to be a sustainable, economically prosperous, and self-sufficient nation state that protects its democracy by meeting its people's basic human needs, responsibly managing the country's limited ecological resources for current and future generations, and advancing efficient and effective integrated planning and governance through national, regional, and global collaboration.
A narrative environment is a real or virtual area where stories can be told. A virtual narrative world could serve as the narrative foundation for game play. A physical storytelling setting could be a museum's exhibition area, a retail store's foyer, or the public spaces around a building - in short, anything where stories can be communicated in space.
Environmental discourses are an important part of a regulatory paradigm that may be forming to balance the inherent conflicts in the capital-environment interaction. They characterize discourses as dialectically produced, often fleeting, but often potent codifications of the social relationships that underpin the production and modification of nature. They argue that the goal of such discourses is to facilitate the required degree of certainty and stability in the accumulation process by creating coalitions of interest that support or at the very least do not oppose resource-based development. They specifically refer to the appropriation of sustainability discourses by environmentally destructive industries such as mining and forestry. (Bridge and McManus, 2000: 21)