An assessment of selected non-water benefits of the Working for Water Programme in the Eastern and Southern Cape

Du Plessis, Lily Lozelle

Title: An assessment of selected non-water benefits of the Working for Water Programme in the Eastern and Southern Cape
Creator: Du Plessis, Lily Lozelle
Subject: Water resources development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Subject: Water resources development -- South Africa -- Southern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Subject: Water conservation projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Subject: Water conservation projects -- South Africa -- Southern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Subject: Land use -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Land use -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Southern Cape
Date Issued: 2003
Date: 2003
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:10991
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/340
Identifier: Water resources development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Identifier: Water resources development -- South Africa -- Southern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Identifier: Water conservation projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Identifier: Water conservation projects -- South Africa -- Southern Cape -- Cost effectiveness
Identifier: Land use -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Land use -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Southern Cape
Description: 1.1 Background to, and motivation for, the study: The Working for Water programme (WfW) is a public works programme designed to clear South Africa of water-consuming invasive alien tree and plants, and to replace them with low water consuming indigenous species. This would prevent a loss of more than 4000 million cubic metres water per annum from the hydrological cycle (DWAF, 1998). The economic viability of the programme has been established in the Western Cape and Kwazulu-Natal (van Wilgen, Little, Chapman, Görgens, Willems and Marais, 1997; Gilham and Haynes, 2001), but questioned in the Eastern and Southern Cape (Hosking, du Preez, Campbell, Wooldridge and du Plessis, 2002). Hosking et al. (2002) investigated the economic case for the programme by performing a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA), based on increased water yield and livestock potential, on six selected sites in the Eastern and Southern Cape, viz. Albany, Kat River, Pot River, Tsitsikamma, Kouga and Port Elizabeth Driftsands.
Format: 176 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: University of Port Elizabeth
Publisher: Faculty of Arts
Language: English
Rights: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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