Some Aspects of Natural Resource Exploitation and Management in Nigeria.
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2018
Authors
Fasona, M.J
Ogunkunle, O.J
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Hershey PA, USA: IGI Global Engineering Science Reference,
Abstract
Natural resources provide the all-important basis for human existence and civilization. Natural resources
management has several implications for human security and public safety. A quality environment supports
virile natural resources, which provide the necessary goods and services to satisfy life quality
needs and mitigate famine and food shortages and their concomitant effects, including food riots and
public disorder. Poorly managed and severely degraded natural resources systems will interfere with
other systems, such as the climate, to produce resource conflicts and exacerbate human insecurity and
undermine public safety. Africa is highly vulnerable to natural resource degradation and its concomitant
impacts, a situation that has deepened the existing poverty-environment-human security linkages. This
chapter explores the dimension of natural resources and natural resource management, its implications
on livelihoods and conflicts, human security and public safety, and its contexts in Africa in general with
particular reference to Nigeria
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Scholarly article
Keywords
Natural resources management , Environment , Livelihood , Resource conflicts , Poverty , Human Security , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES
Citation
Chapter 2, p22-39 in Augustine Nduka Eneanya (ed): Handbook of Research on Environmental Policies for Emergency Management and Public Safety.