Nigeria Case Study - Economic Growth Effect on the Environment
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- Created on: 14-10-17 21:43
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- Nigeria Case Study - Economic Growth Effecting the Enviroment
- Industrial Growth
- 5000 registered industrial plants.
- In Kano, Lagos, and kaduna
- Harmful pollutants in open drains, harmful to people and ecosystems
- poisonous gasses resulting in resperating and heart problems
- Forests destroyed
- 10 000 illegal small scale industries.
- Urban Growth
- scatter settlements
- waist disposal creating a major landfill problem
- traffic congestion
- Farming and Deforestation
- leads to land degradation
- water pollution
- soil erosion
- silting of river channels
- increase of CO2 levels
- Animal species have gone
- Mining and oil extraction
- mining and extracting of raw materials and precious materials can lead to pollution
- soil erosion
- EXAMPLE - Bodo oil spill (2008/09)
- lots of oil spills in the Niger Delta
- destroys habitats
- Kills animals
- fires
- harmful gases in the atmosphere
- acid rain
- Industrial Growth
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