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Public participation in the preparation of Port of Durban expansion development plan : back of port project, Ethekweni municipality.

dc.contributor.advisorAwuor-Hayangah, Rosemary.
dc.contributor.authorKhawula, Sanele Howard.
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-05T08:48:34Z
dc.date.available2016-12-05T08:48:34Z
dc.date.created2015
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionMasters in Town and Regional Planning. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College 2015.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines public participation and the ensuing conflict in the preparation of Port of Durban plan. The Back of Port project is used as a case study. This included the factors that influenced the expansion of Port of Durban and its impact. This study adopted a qualitative research approach. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used. Interviews were conducted with key informants and the Community of Clairwood. The study revealed that public participation particularly in the post-apartheid era enjoys a high level of support across various sectors. However its practice is fraught with conceptual and practical difficulties. It was found that the extent of public participation that was undertaken in the Back of Port project plan was unsatisfactory and ineffective. The flawed public participation is the results of conflict of interest between the developers that support infrastructural economic imperatives to maximise economic development and local residents that advocate for effective public participation and bottom up development that would create local jobs, manufacture locally instead of exporting goods from other countries. The study recommends the need for collaborative network paradigm for citizen participation; where public participation works as part of a network ; where government, development, professional actors are many and varied individual public entities; and where interest based entities rather than only interacting with the public entities but encouraged to interact with all citizen and also assist them to further interact with one another in the Back of Port project.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/13818
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_US
dc.subjectTheses--Town and Regional Planning.en_US
dc.subjectPort of Durban expansion development plan.en_US
dc.subjectHarbors--South Africa--eThekwini Municipality Metropolitan.en_US
dc.subjectMarine terminals--South Africa--eThekwini Municipality Metropolitan.en_US
dc.subjectCity planning--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.en_US
dc.subjectSustainable development--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.en_US
dc.subjectSocial participation--South Africa--eThekwini Municipality Metropolitan.en_US
dc.titlePublic participation in the preparation of Port of Durban expansion development plan : back of port project, Ethekweni municipality.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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