Book Review: Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in South Africa: Legal Perspectives

• Jurisdiction: South Africa
• Author: Emile Raubenheimer
• Published date: 16 August 2019
• Pages: 622-624
• Date: 16 August 2019
• Citation: (2010) 22 SA Merc LJ 622

Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in South Africa: Legal

Perspectives.Edited by Alexander Paterson and Louis J Kotzé.Contributing

authors: Elmene Bray, Frances Craigie, Anél du Plessis,Willemien du Plessis,

Loretta Feris, Melissa Fourie, Michael Kidd, Louis J Kotzé, Karin Lehmann,

Alexander Paterson, Phil Snijman, Richard Summers and Terry Winstanley.

2009. Cape Town: Juta & Co Ltd. xlii, 404 pages (soft cover). Price: R495.00.

ISBN: 9780702179624.

At f‌irst glance the striking cover and title of the book promise the reader a

fresh focus on environmental law in South Africa, namely environmental

compliance and enforcement. This is amplif‌ied by the foreword of Albie

Sachs, who formed part of a group of farsighted people instrumental in the

inclusion of an environmental right in the Constitution of the Republic

of South Africa, 1996. The book focuses on the implementation of

this environmental right, moving from the abstract to the practical realm

of environmental law; ie, examining the domestic environmental compliance

and enforcement system.

Chapter 1 (by Alexander Paterson and Louis J Kotzé) orientates the reader

by giving the background, structure and purpose of the book. The book is

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