State of the Environment - South Africa: Marine & Coastal: Linkages


National State of the Environment Report - South Africa
Main Issues:	Climate	Terrestrial	Water	Marine	Social	Economic	Political	Home page

This part of the report contains the following sub-sections:
Overview	Introduction	Driving forces	Pressure	State	Impact	Response
Outcome	Linkages	Data issues	Conclusions	References	Indicators	Links

Linkages

This sector has linkages with some of the other sectors in the National State of the Environment Report. Use the tables below to find linkages with other sectors in this report.

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Table 4.6 presents a summary of this chapter, showing linkages between the DPSIR categories as well as linkages between chapters.

Issue	Climatic & Atmospheric Change	Terrestrial Ecosystems	Freshwater Ecosystems	Social Dimension	Economic Dimension	Political Dimension
Population growth		Fragmentation of ecosystems	Increased water abstraction for domestic and industrial use	Demand on basic services (e.g. housing, health care, schools, waste management)		Helsinki Rules SADC Protocols on shared water courses National Water Act, 1998 Determination of the Reserve Catchment management strategies Catchment Management Agencies Integrated Pollution Control South African water quality guidelines
Coastal development	Water and Energy demand Effluents (sewage and industrial) Waste generation	Urban encroachment City-Port related developments Land Transformation	Water and Energy demand Effluents (sewage and industrial) Waste generation			Environmental Conservation Act 73 of 1989 National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 Marine Protected Areas Coastal Policy Green Paper Strategic Environmental Assessment at regional level
Pollution	Sea level rise	Coastal erosion Flooding Habitat loss	Estuary sedimentation	Damage to infrastructure	Reduced water quality	(UNFCCC) United Nations Framework on Climate Change Oil spill contingency plans Integrated Pollution & Waste management Policy

> Marine and Coastal Systems: Data issues

There is also information about Marine and Coastal systems in the following reports:
Metropolitan reports:
	Cape Metropolitan Council (1998 edition)	Durban Pilot Study
	Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (1999 edition)	Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council (1999 edition)