Senior Decision Makers’ Perspectives on South Africa’s Climate Change Response Strategy
| dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Andrew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-30T12:29:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-30T12:29:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Energy Leadership Johannesburg,2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research seeks to analyse the perspectives of senior decision makers of South Africa’s climate change response strategy, using Q Methodology as the principal research methodology. The research reveals 4 statistically significant perspectives and seeks to distil traits which exemplify these perspectives. These perspectives have been located within the current international commitments and domestic climate change response strategy of the Republic of South Africa. This research argues that the interdependence of the actors who are responsible for driving the climate change response strategy require a coordinated and structured approach to achieve meaningful change. This approach must be based on multi-sectoral cooperation, led by a nationally coordinated drive to implement decarbonisation strategies compatible with the undertakings made in terms of the Paris Climate Agreement. These strategies must be underpinned by a coherent response which sufficiently balances the trade-offs implicit in balancing a complex system such as climate change, more specifically, when set against the unique background of South Africa’s demographics, structural and economic inequality and natural environment | |
| dc.description.submitter | MM2024 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Taylor, Andrew. (2021). Senior Decision Makers’ Perspectives on South Africa’s Climate Change Response Strategy [Master’s dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WireDSpace. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/41214 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.rights | © 2021 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.school | WITS Business School | |
| dc.subject | Carbon Tax Act Climate Change | |
| dc.subject | National Response White Paper | |
| dc.subject | Climate Change | |
| dc.subject | Climate Change Bill | |
| dc.subject | Q Methodology United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | |
| dc.subject | UNFCCC | |
| dc.subject | Senior Decision Makers’ Perspective | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.subject.other | SDG-13: Climate action | |
| dc.title | Senior Decision Makers’ Perspectives on South Africa’s Climate Change Response Strategy | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |