Environmental threats and opportunities in Namibia: A comprehensive assessment
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Author
Byers, B.A.Date
1997-08
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The Namibian Government (GRN) gives a high priority to "sustainable and integrated natural resource management" in its First National Development Plan (NDP #1), which covers the fiveyear period from 1996–2000. The National Development Plan commits the GRN to: "...promote sustainable development within all sectors and across all regions, to ensure present and future generations of Namibians gain optimal benefit from the equitable and sustainable utilisation of Namibia's renewable resources; to protect the nation's biodiversity and maintain essential ecological life-support systems; to promote participatory, cross-sectoral and integrated programmes to improve understanding of the management of natural resources on a sustainable basis." The First National Development Plan is congruent with Article 95(1) of the Namibian Constitution and states that the State shall promote and maintain the welfare of the people by adopting policies aimed at "...the maintenance of ecosystems, essential ecological processes and biological diversity of Namibia and utilisation of living natural resources on a sustainable basis for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future; in particular the government shall provide measures against the dumping or recycling of foreign nuclear and toxic wastes on Namibian territory...".Pages
80Publisher or University
Directorate of Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Windhoek, NamibiaSeries : Nr
Research Discussion Paper. n° 21Collections