Repositioning the urban environment question in Zimbabwe: a review of the context, conditions and processes

Amin Kamete

Development Southern Africa, 2004, vol. 21, issue 4, 663-686

Abstract: This analysis is a reappraisal of two perspectives in urban development in Zimbabwe: environmental sustainability and human sustenance. The discussion seeks to reposition the conservation-survival debate by broadening it to the wider urban and national macroeconomic and sociopolitical context. It re-examines Zimbabwe's environmental problems by examining the challenges posed by urbanisation, industrialisation and informalisation. To these 'permanent' strands are added the 'transient' phenomena of structural adjustment and indigenisation. The analysis is done within the overall national macroeconomic and sociopolitical environment. The article examines environmental sustainability and human sustenance as the two policy challenges that have to be reconciled in the quest for sustainable urban settlements in Zimbabwe. The analysis stresses that the exercise of striking a balance between the needs of humankind and those of nature has to take cognisance of the complexity of issues and the processes going on elsewhere in the urban and national context.

Date: 2004
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