The four environmental narratives in SA.

* The conservation

* The non-states  actors

*The economic

*The local views

The objectives and the motive for each narrative?

The conservation view

There is an  Authoritarian when it comes to policy and the practices.it excludes the people and remove the rights to people and to the natural resources.

The motivation is to ensure that Authoritarian approach the conservation of the land in the interest of nation, religion, communities and it has a good objective but poor processes.

The economic view

The environment is the commodity for the selling and buying.

The motivation

Nature is the untapped resources that should be exploited to avoid people being poor and to maintain the standard of life.

The capitalist find the ways to make money and exploit the resources that is available to them, after they generate the income they have power in the economic because they used their brains to make money.

The local views

The views are complex because of the individual actor, informed time, the circumstances and the local power and the politics.

The motivation

it is nature of the relationship with the environment as it shapes the socio political context and the policies and the practices as a framework direct views and the responses of the local community.

The non-state actor view

views originate from the interested  external parties.

The motivation

* The firm that belief that the natural resources are finite.

*The rejection of the anthropocentric attitudes of humans.

Do the narratives contribute to an understanding the SA environment ?

Narratives does contribute a lot in understanding the context of SA environment as they help to know the causes of environmental issues and the finding the solution to the problems. Even though there are some communities in  SA that does not have the water supply and drinking the polluted. And it is making the environmental to be realized in the communities and how to keep the environment clean also the ecosystem.

Two main discourses in SA

Sustainable development

it improves the quality of life and the continued development is only possible with the environment protection.

Environment and the social justice

equal distribution and excess to good quality environmental resources are narrowly linked to overcoming the social problems and their effects experienced by the communities.

How does the sustainable development link to SA policies?

With the help of the natural capital accounting, it helps the measure and track and report on the stocks and flows of natural capital, it relies on the various measures to track national progress and inform policy and decision making. And this system helps the policy to manage the ecosystem very well and the polluted water to get cleaned so that communities can have a clean water to avoid the diseases and maintain the health care.