New Horizons in Protecting Zanzibar’s Environment: an Examination of the Environmental Management Act, 2015
No Thumbnail Available
Date
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
The African Review
Abstract
Description
The promulgation of the Environmental Management Act, 2015 of Zanzibar is a relatively
new development. It has ushered optimism in the environmental management
and protection realm in Zanzibar. The Act repeals and replaces the framework
Environmental Management and Sustainable Development Act of 1996. Ostensibly
this development seeks to reflect the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar’s (RGZ)
concerted effort to address the rampant environmental degradation on the Isles by
taking into account a number of developments at the international and local levels.
The article provides a critical analysis of the new Act by, inter alia, making some comparisons
with the repealed framework law. Its main thesis posits that although the
intention of the RGZ is plausible, the new law is not an inviolable recipe for addressing
the major challenges of environmental degradation facing the Archipelago.
Keywords
Environmental management and protection law and policy ‒ Zanzibar