Environment and Economics in Nigeria

ISBN-13: 9780415895927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str.

Toyin Falola; Adam Paddock

Opis

This volume gathers contributors across a wide range of disciplines to explore the relationship between the environment, economics, and development in Nigeria from the twentieth century to the present, examining issues such as violence, health, and contemporary concerns about sustainability and conservation. It sheds light not just on the environmental history of Nigeria - a crucial, paradigmatic case in its own right - but also offers insights into these issues as they manifest themselves throughout the developing world.

Spis treści

Introduction: Environmental Themes in Nigerian History  Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock  Part 1: Environment and Development  1. From Kerosene to Avgas: International Oil Companies and Their Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1890s to 1945  Kairn Klieman  2. Environmental Impact of Post-Colonial Mining Activities on the Jos Plateau  S.U. Fwatshak  3. Biological Based Warfare in Central Nigeria: An Aspect of Pre-colonial Military Science and Technology  Olayemi Akinwumi and Mailafiya Aruwa Filaba  4. Religion, Science Conflict: Problems for Sustainable Environment for Human and Economic Development  T.T. Asojo and S.O. Ijaola  Part II: Oil and Politics  5. Oil Multinationals: ‘Environmental Genocide’ and Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria’s Niger Delta  Donald O. Omagu  6. Illiberal State, Oil Expropriation and Environmental Degradation in Nigeria's Niger Delta Region  Dele Ashiru  7. State and Governance of Multinational Corporations: Shell Petroleum Company in the Niger Delta  Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba  8. "Big Motor and Dirty House:" Ken Saro Wiwa’s Fight with Royal Dutch Shell and Nigeria  Michael Sharp  9. Religion in the Development of Environmental Ethics in Nigeria: Niger Delta in Perspective  S.O. Ijaola and T.T. Asojo  Part III: Environmental, Socio-Cultural and Political Dimensions  10. From Oil Rivers to the Niger Delta: The Paradoxes of Domination and Resistance in Colonial Nigeria  Charles Ukeje  11. Education Transformations and Traditional Medicine in Nsukka, Nigeria  Jamaine Abidogun  12. Depictions of Socio-Psychological Dimensions of the Niger-Delta Crises in Recent Nigerian Drama  Alexander Kure  13. Creativity and Nature: Fagunwa’s Tradition and Environmental Sustainability  Arinpe Adejumo  Conclusion: Nigeria and the Global Environment  Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock

O autorze

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Adam Paddock is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.