Streamlining Sustainability: Environmental Regulations in Nigeria: A Mini Review

Nabegu, Naibbi Ai and Mustapha Ab
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Naibbi Ai: Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Kano University of science and Technology, Africa
Mustapha Ab: Department of Crop Production and Horticulture, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Africa

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2017, vol. 1, issue 5, 142-144

Abstract: The Report of the Vision 2020 Committee set up to provide a roadmap that will propel Nigeria among the top 20 world economies by 2020 acknowledged that the country is faced with many environmental problems such as the continuous exploitation of marginal lands, drought and desertification in the north, severe gully erosion in eastern and northern states, uncontrolled logging with inherent problems of the destruction of bio-diversity, inappropriate agricultural practices, destruction of watershed, destruction of vast agricultural lands, creation of burrow pits due to bad mining practices and road works, oil pollution from spillage and gas flaring, urban decay and squatter settlements, industrial pollution and municipal waste generation, climate change and ozone depletion among others.

Keywords: earth and environment journals; environment journals; open access environment journals; peer reviewed environmental journals; open access; juniper publishers; ournal of Environmental Sciences; juniper publishers journals; juniper publishers reivew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2017.01.55553

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