Sustainable Development

This second edition of Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges for Nigeria remains an excellent and interdisciplinary work on the subject of sustainable development. The book will benefit especially all government functionaries in all parastatals and institutions related to the Ministry of Environment, urban planners professionals, policy-makers, Non-Government Organisations, law enforcement agents, students and teachers of Environmental studies, International Relations, International Law, Peace and Conflict, International Relations, Political Science, Institute of Ecology, Institute of Sustainable Development, Development Studies as well as environmental practitioners and those in theological studies. The book is equally invaluable to all Nigerians who are sincerely interested in the progress and development of the country knowing that development, environmental degradation, population and poverty are inter-connected. In effect, this book is a concrete response to the need to educate and empower the citizens in particular to value and protect their environment in the struggle for authentic solutions in respect of poverty, development and good governance. It is also a call for Nigeria as a major player in international politics to take up the challenges of climate change, sustainable development and politics of collaboration beyond its borders. This second edition takes a critical look at the issues and the challenges of sustainable development in the context of the major international instruments in place to combat environmental degradation using Nigeria as a case study. The book remains a comprehensive and highly readable work and sets the subject firmly in the context of world political events, and brings out the importance of challenges, economic, political, religious and cultural influences that affect it. The work is a scholarly synthesis and a critical reflection from an interdisciplinary perspective devoid of jargons with which such a book could be plagued. The questions at the end of the chapters allow for further enquiries and research for the reader. The book is rich as teaching materials.