WOMEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTS IN NIGERIA
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2019-07-01
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Journal Of Scientific Research in Allied Sciences
Abstract
The number of people on the earth, their distributions across the globe,
consumption pattern and technologies they use, determine their relevance on the
environment. That is, man uses the environment as a resource bank, a habitat and
as a sink for wastes. But to correct the ills of the environment, we need to know
and understand the environment. To understand the environment, we need to
study it. To study the environment with the required precision, we need effective
techniques. However, in the world of finite and non-renewable resources, the
need to maintain our environment in a sustainable way cannot be
overemphasized. This is even more crucial in settings where poverty, population
pressure, vagaries of weather, etc. have meant increasing demand on the
environment. In particular, societies, such as Nigeria, women are the traditional
custodians of the environment their roles are hardly documented nor appreciated.
Consequently, most measures that are designed to ameliorate, mitigate and
reverse the deleterious impact of man on his environment tend to by-pass women.
The very low level of successes of ‘man-centered intervention projects’ does not
match the resources expended. To succeed, they need to appreciate the important
role of gender relations, in particular women, in the maintenance and sustenance
of the milieu as the home of man will loom large. This critically demands a
radical departure from the current status quo to a system that places women at the
nexus of environmentally friendly measures. In this paper; a framework for the
documentation and appreciation of the contribution of women to a myriad of
environmental problems is put forward. This framework appreciates the ‘place’ to
wit, the socio-cultural and physical milieu that women have to grapple with in
foresting healthy environmental management in Nigeria. There is, therefore, need
for environmental security for future generations especially as the global
environmental change affects the capacity to achieve sustainable development
Description
Empowering women is empowering our
future; housing women is housing our future and
educating women is educating the next
generation . Schematically,
the world resources are natural treasures with
multiple benefits Unfortunately, centuries of
human population inhabitant, technological
development, unsustainable exploitation and
mismanagement of living and non-living
resources has been shaped and reshaped largely
by activities of nature and of man and have
threatened and degraded the characteristics of the
global community. There is a long litany of
man’s misuse of his environment, rooted in the
growing evidence that the situation has
deteriorated dramatically over the past decade.
The conflict appears to have intensified, creating
concern for the environment that we may be
pushing ourselves to the brink of a global
disaster. Interestingly, the earth is the home of a
man and in turn nurtures man and his myriads of
activities, which apparently increases the features
of life particularly in the latter half of the
twentieth century and the growing
interdependency of the global village .