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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610215028398 by Elizabeth May Kruger 12/15 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610215028398 by Elizabeth May Kruger 12/15 ScienceDirect] | ||
Sustainability of human economies and the environments that we inhabit as part of a globalized society have been debated at least since the 1970s, and solutions to the currently destructive effects on the planet of our economies and behaviours have been sought across the spectrum, from government agencies, NGOs, to the private sector and civil society alike. This paper brings to light one case study that provides some clues to opportunities and challenges for sustainability in energy and building from a permaculture project located in a semi-arid permaculture project in the Western Cape province in South Africa, in the context of South African housing and energy policy that recognizes sustainability in principle but in practice still leaves much room for the implementation of sustainability goals. | Sustainability of human economies and the environments that we inhabit as part of a globalized society have been debated at least since the 1970s, and solutions to the currently destructive effects on the planet of our economies and behaviours have been sought across the spectrum, from government agencies, NGOs, to the private sector and civil society alike. This paper brings to light one case study that provides some clues to opportunities and challenges for sustainability in energy and building from a permaculture project located in a semi-arid permaculture project in the Western Cape province in South Africa, in the context of South African housing and energy policy that recognizes sustainability in principle but in practice still leaves much room for the implementation of sustainability goals. | ||
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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/permaculture by ScienceDirect] | |||
Permaculture is an international movement and ecological design system, focusing on how perennial agricultural systems can imitate natural ecosystems. It is a system of sustainable agriculture in which all the architecture, hydrology, and agriculture components, including people, animals, natural resources, the land, and the wider environment, can coexist permanently (Holmgren, 2018). Permaculture uses a variety of cultivation techniques, based on traditional methods combined with new research results to optimize productivity in the land, water, nutrients, sunlight, and working hours (Krebs and Bach, 2018). In other words, permaculture designers look to ecosystems and seek to incorporate their self-sustaining nature into human environments. The permaculture system aims to reduce the waste of resources and create increased production efficiency. In permaculture system, polyculture and full-time succession planting are used. | |||
