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Table 3.4.1: Spatial and Environment Trend Analysis
Challenge
Cause
Effect
Response Type
Responses
Spatial Planning Challenges
Inequitable development along the inland
Apartheid planning
Underdevelopment
Redress
Develop previously neglected areas
Settlement sprawl
Lack of effective land use management
Creation of dispersed, inefficient low-density rural settlements
Address & Mitigate
Introduction of settlement edges
Lack of effective land use management system
Lack of enforcement
Settlement sprawl and loss of valuable land
Address
Implementation of land use scheme within the entire district municipality
Derelict small towns- built form (UMzinto and Ezingolweni)
Declining economy
Unattractiveness
Address
Introduction of urban renewal / small town rehabilitation
Cross border rural settlement conurbation
Settlement sprawl
Consolidation of cross- border settlements
Address
Introduction of urban renewal / small town rehabilitation
Spatial inefficiency
Dispersed settlements and disjuncture between settlements and economic opportunities
Lack of access to economic opportunities
Address & Mitigate
Cross-border planning to ensure uniformity and continuity
Rural Population Outmigration
Lack of rural opportunities
Poverty/ Indigent Pockets
Address
Creation of self- sufficient settlements
Environment
Climate change impacts
Greenhouse gas emissions
Natural catastrophes
Mitigate and adapt
Implementation
of mitigation and adaptation measures as per climate change strategy
Environmental degradation
Settlement sprawl
Loss of natural assets
Address & Mitigate Apply environmental management zoning (EMZs) as per EMF
Institution of environmental rehabilitation programmes Implementation of EMF and SDF
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