The monitoring of ambient environmental conditions is essential to environmental management and regulation. However, effective monitoring is subject to a range of institutional, political, and legal constraints, constraints that are a product of the need for monitoring to be continuous, long lived, and well matched to the resources being studied. Political pressure or myopia, conflicting agency...

The Environmental Protection Agency needs a mission statement. It needs this mission statement for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is to enhance the development and use of science pertinent to protecting the environment. Given the constraints of our nation's deeply legalistic approach to environmental problems, the amount of scientific information that has been developed and incorp...

Water is the sector most comprehensively covered in European Union’s environmental policy. An initial wave of directives accounting for public health protection and for harmonisation of environmental rules in the common market was followed by a call for a policy reform to address more properly realistic objectives, often conflicting in practical interpretation, such as environmental protection,...

rooms the misery of human suffering. When conflicts are over, the news usually concentrates on reconstruction issues. However, the legacy of conflicts might also include longer-term security threats, such as environmental degradation, damaged infrastructure, and conflict related risks to human health. Because of poor environmental administration in postconflict countries, environmental and heal...

The prevailing armed conflicts in Nigeria particularly the Niger Delta region and North East have caused massive destruction to human lives environment at large. high-level weapons, bombs other explosives employed by Militants, Boko Haram group Nigerian military counter-terrorism strategies impacted negatively on farmlands, water-bodies, wildlife natural forests. paper examines history activiti...

Environmental conflicts manifest in different ways, with context-specific impacts on the affected regions. Emerging as a crucial point of national and international security, issues climate change have taken fore. In Lake Chad Region, more people become susceptible to change, given poverty level, unemployment inadequate governance these Christened world’s most complicated humanitarian disaster,...

Resource scarcity has often been framed as a leading cause of civil strife and conflict by political scientists, sociologists, and planners alike (Lewicki, Gray, and Elliot 2002; Dobkowski and Wallimann 1998). Poverty as a result of droughts, or a general paucity of natural endowments, has frequently been correlated with a rise of belligerence in societies—environmental literature is also rife ...