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Definition[edit]

In the section, "Definition", it is not clear whether the controversy referred to is in South Africa, or more generally. If the latter, this discussion should go into the main article on the topic, Environmental law. If the former, it needs to be expanded and documented, with references. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:00, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:52, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Section on international environmental law[edit]

Great to see this article coming along! With respect to material in the above-referenced section of this article, it is, in my opinion, misplaced in this article. There are multiple articles on that broad area elsewhere in Wikipedia. What would be useful here is a summary of South Africa's engagement with/ position in relationship to such international conventions. Thank you & Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:02, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. I'll fill it out, and discard the superfluous, in due course; at the moment I'm just providing, based on my notes, a broad structure and overview. I do think a brief discussion of international environmental law, with a link to the entry on that subject, would be good, since there's a great deal of South African legislation which echoes, often explicitly, the major treaties I've mentioned. I'll be working on this page for the next few hours. Crusoe (talk) 13:13, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. I think it would be useful to place an 'under construction' tag on this article while it remains under development. Thanks again for your contributions! Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:15, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Used to know how to do that, but don't any longer. Mind doing it yourself? Crusoe (talk) 13:26, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article length[edit]

It may be that this article can be trimmed in length, in a couple of ways, including:

Where there are overlaps with other articles, refer to those articles.
Spin off lengthy material on the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) to a new article on that topic.

As it is, it is rather unwieldy in length, in my view. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:55, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar question[edit]

Should there be a comma before too in this sentence? The role of the Constitution, crucial to any understanding of the application of environmental law, is examined, too. Robert (talk) 13:45, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed? Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 19:10, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The concept of the "environment"[edit]

Since this article is specifically referring to law in South Africa, I deleted the section about Andre Rabie's concept of the environment, leaving the actual definition under South African law. OctaviusPublius (talk) 22:39, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

International Law[edit]

I cut the majority of the section about International law, since there is already an article which covers the same material (Environmental protocol), and this article is supposed to be focused on South Africa. I felt the need for the drastic cut because of the extreme length of this article, and I wanted to ensure information in this article is specific to South Africa. OctaviusPublius (talk) 23:58, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Section 33 of the Constitution[edit]

The section of this article about Section 33 of the constitution contains a lot of information that is not that applicable to environmental law. Therefore I recommend that it is moved to a different section of South African law. Law of South Africa#Specific fields of law OctaviusPublius (talk) 22:23, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]