Claassen, MariusHill, Liesl2018-01-042018-01-042017-01Claassen, M. and Hill, L. 2017. Protecting the environment for development: Linking ecosystem structure & function and development outcomes. Water Wheel, vol. 16(1): 27-291816-7969http://www.wrc.org.za/Pages/Preview.aspx?ItemID=11865&FromURL=%2fPages%2fDisplayItem.aspx%3fItemID%3d11865%26FromURL%3d%252fPages%252fKH_WaterWheel.aspx%253fdt%253d4%2526ms%253d%2526d%253dThe%2bWater%2bWheel%2bJanuary-February%2b2017%2526start%253d1http://www.wrc.org.za/Pages/DisplayItem.aspx?ItemID=11865&FromURL=%2fPages%2fKH_WaterWheel.aspx%3fdt%3d4%26ms%3d%26d%3dThe+Water+Wheel+January-February+2017%26start%3d1https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-565710ac0http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9923Article published in Water Wheel, vol. 16(1): 27-29According to SANBI, South Africa’s ecosystem diversity is a kind of infrastructure which, just like roads and railway lines, is critical to the wellbeing of the economy, communities and individual people. The National Development Plan calls for the sustainable management of our natural endowments. One of the principles of spatial planning is spatial sustainability, which requires sustainable patterns of consumption and production, and ways of living that do not damage the natural environment. The second edition of National Water Resource Strategy sets out to ensure that South Africa's aquatic ecosystems are protected effectively at different levels in accordance with the classification system, and that decisions concerning levels of protection take transparent and just account of environmental, social and economic well-being.enSouth African ecosystem diversityWater resource protectionArticleClaassen, M., & Hill, L. (2017). Protecting the environment for development: Linking ecosystem structure & function and development outcomes. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9923Claassen, Marius, and Liesl Hill "Protecting the environment for development: Linking ecosystem structure & function and development outcomes." (2017) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9923Claassen M, Hill L. Protecting the environment for development: Linking ecosystem structure & function and development outcomes. 2017; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9923.TY - Article AU - Claassen, Marius AU - Hill, Liesl AB - According to SANBI, South Africa’s ecosystem diversity is a kind of infrastructure which, just like roads and railway lines, is critical to the wellbeing of the economy, communities and individual people. The National Development Plan calls for the sustainable management of our natural endowments. One of the principles of spatial planning is spatial sustainability, which requires sustainable patterns of consumption and production, and ways of living that do not damage the natural environment. The second edition of National Water Resource Strategy sets out to ensure that South Africa's aquatic ecosystems are protected effectively at different levels in accordance with the classification system, and that decisions concerning levels of protection take transparent and just account of environmental, social and economic well-being. DA - 2017-01 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - South African ecosystem diversity KW - Water resource protection LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2017 SM - 1816-7969 T1 - Protecting the environment for development: Linking ecosystem structure & function and development outcomes TI - Protecting the environment for development: Linking ecosystem structure & function and development outcomes UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9923 ER -