WOMEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTS IN NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorRaimi Morufu Olalekan1&3, Bilewu Olaolu Oyinlola2 , Adio Zulkarnaini Olalekan3 , Abdulrahman Halimat
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T10:02:07Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T10:02:07Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-01
dc.descriptionEmpowering 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 .
dc.description.abstractThe 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
dc.description.sponsorshipRaimi Morufu Olalekan1&3, Bilewu Olaolu Oyinlola2 , Adio Zulkarnaini Olalekan3 , Abdulrahman Halimat
dc.identifier.urihttps://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1526
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherJournal Of Scientific Research in Allied Sciences
dc.titleWOMEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTS IN NIGERIA
dc.typeArticle
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