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WRITER'S PROFILE

Johan Nel, Director of the Environmental Management Unit, Potchefstroom University for CHE, Potchefstroom, South Africa, has eighteen years experience in environmentally related issues particularly within the context of corporate environmental management and environmental governance.

He founded the Environmental Management Unit with the vision to establish and develop a center of excellence that focuses on innovative training and capacity building, advisory services and research programmes. Today the EMU is the center of choice for both the private and public sectors as far as environmentally related training, research and advisory service delivery is concerned.

He presently manages a Masters Programme in Environmental Management and Analysis. Apart from many courses presented to the private and public sectors in Southern Africa, he is regularly requested by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) in Osaka, Japan, to do environmentally related training in Germany, Hungary, the Philippines, Egypt and Kenya with more planned in Vietnam and Brazil.

Apart from specialization in activities and fields such as environmental impact assessment, environmental risk assessment, facilitation and conflict management; environmental performance reporting, technology assessment, social impact assessment; environmental governance and policy analysis, he also advises organizations to address their environmental challenges and liabilities at both strategic and operational levels.

KEY TERMS USED IN EnTA

Disjointed incrementalism - A perspective on decision making that argues that decision making processes are not once-off events. Decision making processes are in reality a series of smaller decisions that are often made in an unconnected way.

Eco-efficiency - To do more with less resources and smaller impacts.

EnTA - Environmental technology assessment is a tool that delivers information to assist those involved with technological development to determine strategic policy.

Environmentally-sound technologies - Technologies that perform better across the range of sustainability and eco-efficiency parameters when compared to other technologies that deliver that same function.

Sustainability - The ability to maintain a desired condition over time, without eroding national, social or financial bases or capital.

Technology decision loop - The various phases of technological decision making on a cradle to grave basis

REFERENCES

Berloznik, 1997 (a). See UNEP / IETC, 1997. Coates, J.F. et.al. 1995. Anticipating the Environmental Effects of Technology. Paris. UNEP / IETC / IE.

Development Bank of South Africa. 1997. Socio-economic Indicators for Measuring the Impact of the DBSA's Projects. (Unpublished).

Development Bank of South Africa. Institutional Risk Assessment for Local Governments. (Unpublished).

Porter, A. 1998. Technology Assessment, Impact Assessment; 13(2): 135-151.

UNEP/IETC. 1997(a). Work-book for training in Environmental Technology Assessment for Decision Makers. Technical Publication Series (5). Osaka/Shiga. UNEP.

UNEP/IETC/IE. Internet Cafe.1998. Information Tools for Decision Making. Environmental Technology Assessment, No. 4. UNEP Industry and Environment, Paris/Osaka.; UNEP/ IETC.

UNEP/IETC. 1995(a). Training Needs in Utilising Environmental Technology Assessment (ETA) for Decision Making, Technical publication services No. 1. Osaka. UNEP/IETC.

UNEP/IETC. 1995(b). Proceedings of Workshop on EnTA. An IETC Leadership Training Course for Decision Making in Southeast Asia. (Unpublished).

UNEP/IETC. 1996. Environmental Technology Assessment (EnTA) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

UNEP/IETC. 1997(b). Workbook for Training in Adopting, Applying and Operating Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs), Regional Workshop, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.

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