Towards sustainable development of environmental resources in Nigeria: examining the limitations

Abstract

Many unsustainable activities such as, wood logging, bush burning, unregulated hunting of wildlife, over–grazing, deforestation, oil spills, gas flaring, Artizinal mining, urbanization which usually result to some adverse environmental impact like climate change, loss of carbon sink, desertification, pollution, depletion of biological resources, coastal erosion and flooding are the major limitations to sustainable development of environmental resources in Nigeria. However, in order to prevent the total annihilation of environmental resources and to conserve same for the benefits of both present and future generations’ legislations and policies have evolved which aim at achieving sustainable development of Nigeria environmental resources. This paper examines the concept of sustainable development of environmental resources in Nigeria and its limitation. The study makes some recommendations to navigate the identified limitations.

Keywords: Sustainable development, Environmental resources, Limitations, Nigeria