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Environmental policy failure in nigeria and the tragedy of underdevelopment of niger delta region

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The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 16 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Underdevelopment.

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The effects of oil pollution on the marine environment in the Gulf of Guinea—the Bonga Oil Field example

TL;DR: Fish makes a significant contribution to the food security of millions of people in the Gulf of Guinea, accounting for up to 80 per cent of the animal protein, and sometimes the only source of anim...

Corruption and environmental degradation in nigeria and its niger delta

TL;DR: The authors examines the impact of these development efforts on the ecological systems of the region and the role corruption plays in leaving these problems unaddressed and as such making environmental devastation an unwarranted consequence.
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Application of whole-cell biosensor for the impact of crude oil exploration on the environment of the Niger Delta

TL;DR: This research proposes urgent rehabilitative measures expedited by the Bio-reporter approach, to enhance rapid detection, toxicity and management of spills impacted sites and is a complementary tool to the chemical analysis methods.
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Nigeria’s Niger Delta: Militia Violence, Amnesty, and Energy Security

TL;DR: Ibaba et al. as discussed by the authors argued that the issue of negotiation cannot be as important as the failure of government to tackle the fundamental issues which triggered the conflict and pointed out that before the amnesty proclamation, several negotiations through committees and commissions involving stakeholders had been done.
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Militancy Crises and the Challenge of Rural Development in Post Amnesty Rivers State, Nigeria

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- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, it was suggested that since the failure of our past rural development programmes had given birth to militancy, we can also use rural development as an effective tool to curb the menace of militancy in the State.
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Political Order in Changing Societies

TL;DR: This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis as mentioned in this paper, and its Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington's achievement, examining the context of the original publication as well as its lasting importance.
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Inequality and Insurgency

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of income inequality on political violence was found to hold in the context of a causal model that takes into account the repressiveness of the regime, governmental acts of coercion, intensity of separatism, and level of economic development.
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Environmental Economics: An Introduction

TL;DR: This book discusses the development of environmental policies in the United States and discusses the strategies used to develop and implement these policies.
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Economic forces at work

TL;DR: Alchian as discussed by the authors made important contributions to the economic analysis of inflation and unemployment and to the theory of costs and of the firm, and played the leading role in the development of a theory of property rights.