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3.2.10 Spatial and Environment SWOT Analysis
The SWOT Analysis exercise was undertaken to highlight the key challenges pertaining to spatial and environment situational analysis as captured in Table 3.5.1 below.
Table 3.5.1: Spatial and Environment SWOT Analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
u Strategically located – gateway to Eastern Cape
u Wall – Wall Schemes
u Geographic Information’s Systems
u Well-developed strategic development documents u Air Quality By-laws in place
u Inter-sectoral collaboration
u Public awareness
u Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Response
Strategy
u Climate Change Adaptation Plan
u Topography
u Limited land for development
u Limited rural development
u Settlement sprawl
u Implementation of strategic documents
u Lack of land use management mechanisms
u Biodiversity and Protected Areas
u Environmental degradation
u IDP credibility declining
u Lack of cooperation towards development (internally
and externally)
u Non-completion of environmental management
strategic tools
u Policy environment
u Human and financial resources capacity
Opportunities Threats
u Densification
u Access to an accredited laboratory
u Sector planning and policy development
u Creation of a healthy and safe environment will lead to
healthy people and therefore healthy economy
u Empowerment of people to be self-sufficient in order to
live in a better environment and therefore have better
health, therefore better economy
u Projects that focus on environmental problem areas u Growth in environmental conservancies in the
country and Ugu area that assist the government in addressing environmental threats and improving the environmental status
u Coastal environment as a tourism draw card
u Policy environment is improving (by-laws, licensing
of listed activities that pose a serious threat to the
environment, human health and the economy)
u Waste management services and some level of human
resource capacity at LMs (where service is being
provided)
u Climate change – opportunity for green growth, green
economy
u Blue flag beaches as an international accreditation
u Tenure security
u Rural Population Outmigration
u Climate Change effects on economic and societal
sectors (biodiversity, health, economy, food security,
water resources, disaster management)
u Compromised community health as regular
inspections cannot be conducted
u Coordination of environmental projects to address
environmental degradation as well poverty alleviation/
short-term employment
u Pollution threatening the coastal environment thereby
compromising beach tourism and human health u Water resources - quality and quantity (pollution, invasion of water bodies by water intensive alien
plants)
u Monitoring of environmental compliance of projects u Need to improve cooperation between Mineral
Resources department and other departments regarding environmental and socio-economic impacts of sand mining
u Infrastructure for waste management at LMs that do provide the service
u Lack of waste management service provision in some boosting tourist confidence LMs
u Local legislation on bathing waters
u Integrated waste management plan and
implementation
u Policy environment for waste management (model by-
law)
u Sand mining – not compliant to the permits and unmonitored
u Lack of suitable space for the disposal of the dead (burial)
u Illegal solid waste disposal
u Airspace in landfill sites soon to reach capacity u Illegal landfill sites in some local municipalities
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