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Title: THE EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH AND POVERTY IN ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY IN NIGERIA |
Authors: Fabianmartins, Obungwah
and Osuagwu, Comfort Enyi ,Nigeria
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Abstract: This study examines the effects of population growth and poverty in environmental sustainability
in Nigeria. Environment sustainability covers the conservation, management and rational
utilization of natural resources in such a way to maintain the integrity of each ecosystem, support
all life, ensure the preservation of biodiversity and prevent environmental degradation. The pillars
of environmental sustainability includes sustainability development, social sustainability and
economic sustainability which is the thrust of this study. The study also discloses that rapid
population growth has dents on environmental sustainability which reflects in deforestation, bushburning, haunting, destruction of the environment through pollution which significantly impact on
the total health of human beings. In conclusion, the complex and dynamic of effect of population
and poverty towards environmental sustainability is seen to be mediated through a number of
socio-economic, cultural, political, and developmental variables which have relative significance
that vary from one context to another. Some economists, biologists, and environmentalists have
observed that over-population have hands on poverty which vis-à-vis leads to denaturing of the
environment in quest of daily survival. Therefore, degradation, erosion and earthquake can
adversely affect environmental sustainability just as oil and gas activities in the Niger Delta does
affect the natural environment of the South-South people of Nigeria. It is on this premise that
recommendations are made that government should enact environmental laws and policies that
will enhance afforestation safeguarding; government should create awareness on the effects of
environmental sustainability; and government should establish an available mechanism to stabilize
population so as to protect the environment.
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