Achieving the national development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investment in ecological infrastructure: A case study of South Africa

Tracey L. Cumming, Ross T. Shackleton, Johannes Förster, John Dini, Ahmed Khan, Mpho Gumula and Ida Kubiszewski

Ecosystem Services, 2017, vol. 27, issue PB, 253-260

Abstract: Ecological infrastructure (EI) refers to ecosystems that deliver services to society, functioning as a nature-based equivalent of, or complement to, built infrastructure. EI is critical for socio-economic development, supporting a suite of development imperatives at local, national and international scales. This paper presents the myriad of ways that EI supports sustainable development, using South Africa and the South African National Development Plan as a case study, linking to the Sustainable Development Goals on a global level. We show the need for EI across numerous development and sustainability issues, including food security, water provision, and poverty alleviation.

Keywords: Ecosystem services; Natural Resource Management (NRM); Policy; Green infrastructure; Social-ecological systems; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.05.005

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