Hydraulic Fracturing in the Karoo: Critical Legal and Environmental
Perspectives explores a broad-ranging set of questions related to
proposed hydraulic fracturing or `fracking' in the Karoo. The book
is multidisciplinary, with contributors including natural
scientists, social scientists, and academics from the humanities,
all concerned with the ways in which scientific facts and debates
about fracking have been framed and given meaning. The work
comprises four parts: Part 1 provides an international, legal,
energy, economic, and revenue overview of the topic. Part 2 has a
physio-geographic theme, with chapters on the inter-related aspects
of water, geology, geo-hydrology, seismicity and biodiversity, as
well as archaeological and palaeontological considerations. Part 3
focuses on public health, and sociological and humanities-related
aspects, and Part 4 addresses the relevant laws, emphasising their
implementation and the role of governance. The underlying theme of
Hydraulic Fracturing in the Karoo: Critical Legal and Environmental
Perspectives is one of caution. The book emphasises the need for
collaboration between the natural and social sciences and the
responsibilities of those charged with the implementation and
governance of the fracking enterprise if South Africa hopes to
effectively manage fracking at all.
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