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Activity 11

11 Jun 2021, 11:09 Publicly Viewable

Environmental narratives identified in SA

Economic-is seen as product that's basically there for selling-buying. The see is seen as an financial resource. The inspiration is that nature is an undiscovered asset that ought to be abused to lift individuals out of destitution additionally make benefit to have financial control.The non-state actor view-is that the see starts from outside interested parties exterior of the nearby community. Inspiration for the approach may be a conviction within the value of the environment that ought to be ensured and regarded. It is additionally against the human exercises which hurt the environmentE nvironmental narratives-it center in assurance, conservation, administration, or rebuilding of normal situations and the biological communities that possess them.

What are the two main environmental discourses in SA.

 

Sustainable development is the organizing rule for assembly human improvement objectives whereas at the same time supporting the capacity of characteristic frameworks to supply the characteristic assets and environment administrations on which the economy and society depend. Economical advancement As of now in 2001 SD is recognized by the UN as objective for all countries all inclusive, SD, social, and environment. Justice principles are joined within the SA structure and it is an critical concept in universal legislative issues of the environment but is drawn nearer in an unexpected way by created and creating nations as well as by distinctive bunches. It requires co-operation, commitment and co-ordination of efforts on all levels of government, at the side the improvement of private division organizations commerce, community and it can gives a show for social alter, for genuine improvement.

 

Social justice is the connection of adjust between people and society measured by comparing conveyance of riches contrasts, from individual freedoms to reasonable benefit openings. Social equity is the moment natural talk Evenhanded conveyance and get to to great quality natural assets are barely connected to overcoming social issues, and their impacts, experienced by communities issues which incorporate destitution ,destitute quality instruction & unemployment and wellbeing and prosperity coming about from the impacts of contaminated, discuss, water, soil and nourishment.

Activity 10

11 Jun 2021, 10:23 Publicly Viewable

The environment was primarily seen by Marx as a medium of human labour. He felt that nature was to be used by humans for their production purposes. Marx saw that the rapid growth of capitalist economy was achieved by exploitation; the exploitation of one social class i.e. proletariat by another i.e. bourgeoisie

One of Southern Africa's biggest issues is the lack of clean water. According to The United Nations Convention on Climate Change on South Africa in 2000, the water around Africa is unevenly distributed, meaning that 60% of the water is situated in only 20% of the land. Less than 10% of Southern Africa's surface water is accessible and due to the fact that a majority of their groundwater lay under large rock formations, groundwater becomes difficult to access as well. Climate change and its attendant effects on temperature and precipitation may have an additional impact.

Many Africans are moving to rural areas, adding to the already high demands for clean water and while demands are growing drastically, freshwater supplies remain limited. Adding to the high demands, Durban’s dam has decreased by 20% since 2010 and up to 30% of the water has either been stolen or given away illegally through international trading.[“A review of water availability in 1996 estimated that the total average annual surface runoff was 150 million cubic metres, the maximum potential annual system yield was 33 290 million cubic metres, and total water annual requirements were 20 045 million cubic metres. Water requirements could increase by about 50% by 2030 (Department of Water and Forestry, 2000. 

Activity 9

11 Jun 2021, 10:01 Publicly Viewable

The environment plays a crucial role in the sustainability of life as we know it here on Earth. All living things depend on the planet's resources to survive and if humans continue to pollute and over-use these resources, they may be completely destroyed or depleted in a matter of years. Recently a number of environmental issues have risen to new heights, affecting economies and policies worldwide.

Our environment faces several problems and many of these seem to be worsening with time bringing us into a time of a true environmental crisis. It is therefore becoming increasingly important to raise awareness of the existence of these issues as well as what can be done to reduce their negative impact. Some of the key issues are:

 Pollution

Pollution of the air, water and soil caused by toxins such as plastics heavy metals and nitrates caused by factors such as toxins and gases released by factories combustion of fossil fuels, acid rain, oil spill and industrial waste.

Global warming

The emission of greenhouse gases due to human activity causes global warming, which in turn causes an increase in temperature that then leads to rising sea levels, melting of polar ice caps, flash floods and desertification.

South Africa is a big city - one that most people would not imagine. Today's point of view of South Africa is through videos and media that exploit the typical Sub Saharan Africa  where people live poorly, lack water, and are ridden with diseases. While it is a majority of the country, South Africa is similar to a typical city in the United States Cities of South Africa. There are three main environmental issues in South Africa - pollution lack of energy, and deforestation Environmental Problems in South Africa. The first issue is pollution - as it is a source of many of the environmental issues present such as climate change, and air pollution. 

Activity 8

14 May 2021, 08:55 Publicly Viewable

Participatory advancement looks for to lock in neighborhood populaces in advancement ventures. Participatory advancement has taken a assortment of shapes since it developed within the 1970s, when it was presented as an important portion of the fundamental needs approach to development. Most appearances of open support in advancement look for to grant the poor a portion in activities planned for their advantage within the trusts that development projects will be more economical and effective on the off chance that neighborhood populaces are locked in within the improvement process
It has gotten to be an progressively
acknowledged strategy of advancement hone and is utilized by a assortment of organizations. It is frequently displayed as an elective to standard top-down development

In south Africa people with big positions are included in the Participatory development for example kings

Participatory development in South Africa: a development management perspective, follows a holistic, multidisciplinary approach in assessing development management principles and strategies in South Africa

Activity 7

6 May 2021, 01:14 Publicly Viewable

Woman in developmental approach concept is based on a acknowledgment of the significance of the parts and status of ladies in advancement handle. It is implied to donate uncommon consideration to the women's part, whereas expanding advancement assistance. For the successful and effective usage of help, it is basic to guarantee that the ladies ought to have the openings to take an interest emphatically as imperative players in improvement handle. Such extension of openings will moreover clear the way for the improvement of women's status.

Woman and developmental approach center on the interaction between ladies and advancement handle. This approach contend that not one or the other ladies nor men advantage from the worldwide financial structures since of the unequal conveyance of assets. Not at all like WID this approach is fundamentally pay more consideration on position of ladies in advancement handle. it too center on tending to patriarchy and worldwide imbalance.

Activity 6

30 Apr 2021, 13:31 Publicly Viewable

Dependency Theory

is based on a Marxist view of the world, which sees globalisation in terms of the spread of market capitalism, and the exploitation of cheap labour and resources in return for the obsolete technologies of the developed world.  The dominant view of dependency theorists is that there is a dominant world capitalist system that relies on a division of labour between the rich core countries and poor peripheral countries. Over time, the core countries will exploit their dominance over an increasingly marginalised periphery.

Modernization theory is a description and explanation of the processes of transformation from traditional or underdeveloped societies to modern societies. In the words of one of the major proponents, "Historically, modernization is the process of change towards those types of social, economic, and political systems that have developed in Western Europe and North America from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth and have then spread to other European countries and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the South American, Asian, and African continents

Activity 5

28 Apr 2021, 10:20 Publicly Viewable

Rural to Urban Migration

It refers to the movement of people from the countryside respectively the rural areas into the cities, often the metropolitan cities of a country. This change of residence is often connected with the migration of labor and a career change from primary to second or third sector - not necessarily, though, as it can refer to the migration of people who are not working in agriculture or farming as well.In South Africa many people move from Rural areas to places like Guateng to look for jobs

Modernisation

refers to the multiple pathways by which societies achieve a state of continuous self-transformation through the application of technical and intellectual means while Modernity, a singular concept, indicates the primacy of reason and universalistic criteria of judgment.

Distribution of income
 
Income distribution is the smoothness or equality with which income is dealt out among members of a society. If everyone earns exactly the same amount of money, then the income distribution is perfectly equal. If no one earns any money except for one person, who earns all of the money, then the income distribution is perfectly unequal. Usually, however, a society's income distribution falls somewhere in the middle between equal and unequal.

Improvement of education and health

In education, the term continuous improvement refers to any school- or instructional-improvement process that unfolds progressively, that does not have a fixed or predetermined end point, and that is sustained over extended periods of

Having access to care is the single most important factor for improving quality healthcare and patient outcomes. Patients must have access to the right care at the right time in order to get the right results

 

I M NEKHAVHAMBE

27 Mar 2021, 07:28 Publicly Viewable

Experts and academics have recommended numerous definitions over time. For illustration, destitution may well be the need of command over commodities in common; then again, it may well be the need of command over a few fundamental goods for example food and lodging. More by and large, Sen, 1985, contended that destitution is the need of capability to operate in a given society. All these definitions point to poverty as a status in which a sensible standard of living isn't accomplished. A amalgamation of the various positions has been made by the World Bank. Destitution is the need of, or the failure to attain, a socially worthy standard of living.

Relative Poverty
The RELATIVE concept of destitution, alludes to a standard of living characterized in connection to the position of other individuals within the salary or use dissemination. In this sense, destitution is essentially a marvel of imbalance. For case, one may characterize as destitute those people that have earnings underneath 50 per cent of the normal pay of the society. Subsequently, in the event that normal pay develops since wealthier individuals pick up more, individuals in relative destitution might increment. This concept naturally reflects changing social and financial conditions in a given nation.

Absolute Poverty
The Absolute concept of destitution alludes to a standard of living characterized in outright terms. In this case destitution is more often than not measured by the esteem, in genuine terms, of a given level of merchandise guaranteeing a few shape of least subsistence for case the esteem of fundamental food or the least wage required to have not too bad lives. The primary endeavors to characterize poverty as an absolute concept have taken under consideration the least diet cost, i.e. the minimum taken a toll, for each family, to attain a given vitality admissions

I M NEKHAVHAMBE

19 Mar 2021, 18:55 Publicly Viewable

Poverty alludes to missing sufficient assets to supply the necessities of lifefood, clean water, shield and clothing. But in today’s world that can be amplified to incorporate get to to wellbeing care, instruction and indeed transportation. In government circles destitution is frequently advance characterized as absolute poverty and relative destitution.

 

Benefits of poverty for the Individual 

When you are poor, you're able to induce help from a assortment of sources for illustration the government, community organizations and from companions. Individuals without cash have the opportunity to create numerous abilities that wealthy individuals will likely never be uncovered to. 

You are doing not ought to file a assess return after you make exceptionally small pay. You will indeed be able to induce an earned pay credit and get more back in charges than you paid.

 

Benefits of poverty to the community 

Destitution makes a difference with the reusing of merchandise and inept experts.A populace of destitute makes a difference maintain customary standards.The destitute more regularly get caught in criminal movement and most considers bargain with violations committed by the destitute. Ethical separating.The poor more often get caught in criminal activity, and most studies deal with crimes committed by the poor.

Poor individuals are frequently inquired to retain costs of alter. A few illustrations include: urban renewal volunteer armed force. Opportunity, however clearly risk risk society. Natural racism who can slightest stand up to having a landfill sited in their neighborhood? Recession or depression when individuals lose employments, they may take others that thrust the less-qualified encourage down the financial step

 

I M NEKHAVHAMBE

14 Mar 2021, 15:14 Publicly Viewable

Conflict theory to begin with indicated by Karl Marx, may be a hypothesis that society is in a state of never-ending strife since of competition for constrained assets. Strife theory holds that social order is kept up by mastery and control, instead of by agreement and similarity. Concurring to strife hypothesis those with riches and control attempt to hold on to it by any implies conceivable mainly by stifling the destitute and feeble. A essential introduce of conflict theory is that people and bunches inside society will work to undertake to maximize their claim riches and control.

Structural functionalism

Could be a system for building hypothesis that sees society as a complex framework whose parts work together to advance solidarity and soundness. This approach looks at society through a macro-level introduction, which could be a wide center on the social structures that shape society as a whole and accepts that society has advanced like organisms.This approach looks at both social structure and social capacities. Functionalism addresses society as a entirety in terms of the work of its constituent components.

 

The most contrast between functionalism and conflict theory is that the functionalism states that each viewpoint of a society serves a work and are essential for the survival of that society whereas the strife hypothesis states that a society is in interminable lesson strife due to the restriction and the unequal dispersion of assets.