{"id":1471,"date":"2011-11-07T05:50:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2011-11-07T05:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:50:41","slug":"what-are-the-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/11\/what-are-the-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the priorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-07-at-12.38.42-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1472\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-07-at-12.38.42-AM-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-07-at-12.38.42-AM-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-07-at-12.38.42-AM.png 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>By Maggie Rees<\/p>\n<p>The country of South Africa is a rapidly developing country with high hopes of reaching a resilient economy, healthier quality of life, and strong political power.\u00a0 Such an agenda requires setting priorities for development.\u00a0 Obviously, certain priorities advance in this hierarchy.\u00a0 In many cases, legislation sticks to the urgencies reflected by a country\u2019s economy, or other factors; when this occurs, the state often loses sight of the individual.\u00a0 Local governments have propensities to keep the individual in mind.\u00a0 It is often argued that such actions take away from the greater goal of development.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to climate change, concern for individuals, adaptation, and mitigation should be viewed as top priorities.\u00a0 But the question is: does local government have the power to take precedent over national climate change legislation?\u00a0 Debra Roberts in <a href=\"http:\/\/eau.sagepub.com\/content\/20\/2\/521.abstract\">\u201cThinking globally, acting locally \u2212\uf020institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa,<\/a>\u201d suggests a hybrid of local and national policy is an inclusive option.\u00a0 Roberts states, \u201cin South Africa, this local level action is critical, as past experience has shown that municipal innovation is often a key factor in catalyzing meaningful activity by both provincial and national governments.\u201d\u00a0 Local efforts prove to be beneficial in policymaking and national legislation.\u00a0 When local communities come together, national progress transpires.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/south-africa-shack-dwellers-movement-no-land-no-house-no-vote-111405-by-christopher-david-lier31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1473\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/south-africa-shack-dwellers-movement-no-land-no-house-no-vote-111405-by-christopher-david-lier31-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/south-africa-shack-dwellers-movement-no-land-no-house-no-vote-111405-by-christopher-david-lier31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/11\/south-africa-shack-dwellers-movement-no-land-no-house-no-vote-111405-by-christopher-david-lier31.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maggie Rees<br \/>\nThe country of South Africa is a rapidly developing country with high hopes of reaching a resilient economy, healthier quality of life, and strong political power.\u00a0 Such an agenda requires setting priorities for development.\u00a0 Obviously, certain priorities advance in this hierarchy.\u00a0 In many cases, legislation sticks to the urgencies reflected by a country\u2019s economy, or other factors; when this occurs, the state often loses sight of the individual.\u00a0 Local governments have propensities to keep the individual in mind.\u00a0 It is often argued that such actions take away from the greater goal of development.<br \/>\nWhen it comes to climate change, concern for individuals, adaptation, and mitigation should be viewed as top priorities.\u00a0 But the question is: does local government have the power to take precedent over national climate change legislation?\u00a0 Debra Roberts in \u201cThinking globally, acting locally \u2212\uf020institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa,\u201d suggests &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19448],"tags":[42577],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change-2","tag-debra-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}