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Author Allen, Fidelis

Title Implementation of oil related environmental policies in Nigeria : government inertia and conflict in the Niger Delta / by Fidelis Allen
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ACRONYMS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Fidelis Allen situates violent conflict in the Niger Delta in the context of failure by government to effectively implement relevant oil-related environmental policies intended to achieve sustainable development, arguing that oil and environment-related conflicts in the region are reflections of this failure. This failure is premised on the notion that the goal of sustainable development as clearly outlined in Nigeria's National Environmental Policy and implied in various other policies can ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-206) and index
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Subject Environmental policy -- Nigeria
Oil pollution of water -- Nigeria -- Niger River Delta
Oil spills -- Environmental aspects -- Nigeria -- Niger River Delta
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Nigeria
Armed conflict.
Political activism.
Revolutionary groups & movements.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Environmental policy
Oil pollution of water
Oil spills -- Environmental aspects
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
Nigeria
Nigeria -- Niger River Delta
Form Electronic book
ISBN 144383470X
9781443834704