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Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/76509 Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study Lombard, A. (Antoinette) pegichiwara@gmail.com Chiwara, Peggie UCTD Social Work Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019. The goal of the study was to explore how environmental and community sustainability can be promoted for informal settlement communities in Namibia and South Africa. The study employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design, which as such combined qualitative and quantitative research approaches in two successive study phases. The study adopted a collective case study design and a cross-sectional survey design. The researcher sampled 91 and 531 participants respectively for the qualitative and quantitative study phases which included child and household participants, social workers, NPO, environmental health and human settlements practitioners in Windhoek, Namibia and in Orange Farm and Region G of the City of Johannesburg in South Africa. The findings indicate that social and economic inequalities contribute to a lack of access to urban land, adequate housing, security of tenure, education, employment and basic services and to polluted and degraded environments in informal settlements. The study concludes that the social, economic and environmental challenges that informal settlement communities in the study areas experience are interrelated and rooted within broader national and urban level contexts that reinforce social and economic exclusion. As such, realising environmental and community sustainability for informal settlement communities transcends the geo-spatial boundaries in informal settlements and requires the mobilisation of multi-sectoral partnerships and resources that promote human and environmental well-being in poor communities. The outcome of the study is an integrated strategy for promoting environmental and community sustainability for informal settlement communities. A key recommendation is for local authorities, informal settlement communities and stakeholders from the political, social services, housing, labour, health, education, water, energy and environmental sectors in Namibia and South Africa to partner in piloting and adapting the strategy to suit their local contexts. Key words Sustainable Development Goals Environmental and community sustainability Informal settlement communities Environmental justice Developmental social work Environmental social work Green social work Human rights Namibia South Africa Social Work and Criminology PhD Unrestricted 2020-10-16T11:57:06Z 2020-10-16T11:57:06Z 2020 2019 Thesis Chiwara, P 2019, Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76509> A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76509 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Social Work Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study |
| title | Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study |
| title_full | Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study |
| title_fullStr | Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study |
| title_short | Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study |
| title_sort | environmental and community sustainability for informal settlement communities in namibia and south africa a comparative social work study |
| topic | UCTD Social Work |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76509 |