NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLOITATION AND THE QUEST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Festus O. Imuetinyan () and Charles Ogheneruonah EGHWEREE ()
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Festus O. Imuetinyan: Department of Public Administration, Postal: University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria,, https://fssunilorinedu.org/ijbss/index.php
Charles Ogheneruonah EGHWEREE: Department of Political Science, Postal: University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, ,, https://fssunilorinedu.org/ijbss/index.php

Ilorin Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 21, issue 1, 35-47

Abstract: The exploitation of natural resources in Nigeria has left marked impact on the environment and continues to deny the nation the opportunity to utilize environmental potentials to achieve sustainable national development. The environment which plays a vital role in national development is not only neglected, but wilfully degraded with no remediation steps in place to ensure sustainability in Nigeria. Evidence from the rich savannah and swamp of the Delta to the arable lands on the plateau with valuable national assets shows a degraded environment. Utilizing secondary data, the paper examines what Nigeria is doing to strike a balance between resource exploitation and environmental health to achieve needed sustainable development. The paper discovers excessive natural resource exploitation at the expense of needed environmental health. To maintain healthy environment and achieve sustainable development, the paper recommends that the Nigerian government needs to be more proactive to deepen her capability to roll back adverse impact of climate change. Formidable environment laws should not only be made, they need the political will to be implemented as well. The government in Nigeria also needs to come up with feasible blueprints that will help conserve the country's biodiversity.

Keywords: Resource Exploitation; Climate Change; Green State; Development; Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Development. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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