| Driving
force |
Pressure |
Impact |
Policy |
Education |
| Urbanization Population
growth |
- High population densities
- Increase demand for infrastructure and service delivery
- Increase informal settlements
- Inner City Decay
|
- Increase levels of pollution
- Increase environmental health related diseases
- Increase in inadequate infrastructure
- Increase in housing backlog
- Depletion of natural resources
- Impact on climate change
- Inner city decay
|
- Member of the World Alliance of Cities against poverty
- Action plans for reduce poverty
- Population policy
- Linking environmental programmes to job creation
|
- Community empowerment and involvement towards improve neighbourhood conditions
- Demonstrations on improve housing and environmental conditions
|
| Total Housing |
- Increase demand for service delivery and infrastructure.
- Increase demand for housing
|
- Unsafe housing
- High rates of environmental health related diseases.
|
- Delivery of subsidized service sites close to work
- Consolidated municipal infrastructure for internal bulk and water provision
- Promote the payment of services
|
- Education of safe home environment
- Healthy homes programmes based on Healthy Cities programme
- Demonstrations on basic safe home environments
|
| Income levels and
Unemployment |
- Education
- Loss of low skilled employment
|
- Increase in crime rates
- Increase in environmental health related disease
- Inadequate basic needs
- Low life expectancy
|
- Job creation policies
- Local economic strategies
- Access to training to enhance job opportunities
|
- Environmental education that focus on job creation.
- Local Economic Development.
|
| Inadequate
education levels |
- Illiteracy
- Low wages for women
- Poor utilization of health services
|
- Increase in fertility
- Increase in unemployment
- Inadequate utilization of health services
|
- Education policies and empowerment strategies
- National qualification framework.
|
- Literacy classes
- Environmental education
- Environmental health education
|
