Volume II - The Northern Cape Provincial Spatial Development ...

Northern Cape PSDF
Volume 2
DTI Department of Trade and Industry.
DWA Department of Water Affairs.
DWAF Department of Water Affairs and Forestry.
Office of the Premier &
Department of Rural Development & Land Reform
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December 2011
Ecosystem A dynamic system of plant, animal and micro‐organism communities and their non‐
living environment interacting as a functional unit.
EMP Environmental Management Plan.
EMPR Environmental Management Programme Report.
EMS Environmental Management System.
Endemic species Any plant or animal species confined to, or exclusive to, a particular, specified area.
Environment The surroundings within which humans exist and that are made up of:
a) the land, water and atmosphere of the earth;
b) micro‐organisms, plant and animal life;
c) any part or combination of (a) and (b) and the interrelationships among and
between them; and
d) the physical, chemical, aesthetic and cultural properties and conditions of the
foregoing that influence human health and well‐being.
Eskom Eskom is a South African electricity public utility, and is the largest producer of
electricity in Africa, and is among the top seven utilities in the world in terms of
generation capacity and among the top nine in terms of sale.
GDP Gross Domestic Product refers to the market value of all final goods and services
produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an
indicator of a country’s standard of living.
GEF Global Environmental Facility.
GGP The Gross Geographic Product of a particular area amounts to the total income or
payment received by the production factors (i.e. land, labour, capital and
entrepreneurship) for their participation in the production within that area.
GIS Geographical Information System or ‘a system that captures, stores, analyses,
manages and presents data with reference to geographic location data – it is a
system of hardware and software used for storage, retrieval, mapping, and analysis
of geographic data’’.
GIWA Global International Waters Assessment.
HIV Human Immunodeficiency virus that causes the condition in which progressive
failure of the immune system allows life‐threatening opportunistic infections and
cancers to thrive.
I&AP
Interested and Affected Party.
IDC Industrial Development Corporation.
IDP
Integrated Development Plan.
IEM Integrated Environmental Management.
Dennis Moss Partnership