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This
indicator is a response indicator that reports
on the financial commitment of provincial government to environmental
management, education and awareness raising as by providing
adequate financial resources to these issues, this indicates
political commitment to them as well. Furthermore, expenditure
on environmental education and awareness, in particular,
may lead to increased involvement and empowerment of people in
environmental issues (DEAT, 2002).
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| Assessment of
Data |
The Mpumalanga Department of Agriculture,
Conservation & Environment (DACE), now the Department of
Agriculture & Land Administration (DALA), provided figures on
the budgetary allocation to Environmental Management and Education
(DACE, 2003). The budget allocation for Environmental
Management includes four items, namely:
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Policy development and planning;
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Waste management;
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Impact assessment (including EIA and SoE); and
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Compliance and Monitoring (Morris,
2003).
The graph below shows an increase in the
budgeted allocation to both Environmental Management and
Environmental Education in the province over the past two years and
it is evident from this data that from the resources allocated to
Environmental Education that this receives a higher priority,
underlying the belief that "
prevention is
better than cure
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