Oil, environment and resource conflicts in Nigeria
By: edited by Augustine Ikelegbe
Contributors: Centre for Population and Environmental Development (Benin City, Nigeria)
Series: Politics and economics in Africa -- v. 7; Politics and economics in Africa -- v. 7.
Publisher: Lit; LIT Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9783643903150
Subjects: Congresses; Economic conditions; Environmental conditions; Social conditions; Political violence; Petroleum industry and trade; Government policy
Notes: Selected and reviewed papers from the International Round Table Conference on Public Policy, Oil and Conflict, hosted by the Centre for Population and Development, Benin City; date not given (2003?).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The resource and environmental conflicts in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria : an overview  -- Augustine Ikelegbe. -- Section I,; title: Oil, environment and sustainable development.; title: The impact of gas flaring on rainwater quality in Erhorike, Delta State  -- Odjugo, P.A.O.; title: The effects of oil exploration on the primary economy of the Niger Delta  -- Onovughe O. Ikelegbe; title: Ecological crisis and health care delivery in the Niger Delta Region : towards a GIS-based risk assessment approach  -- Amos Abu; title: The ecology-security nexus : oil, environmental pollution, communal unrests and national security in Nigeria  -- Iyabo Olojede, Banji Fajonyomi & Ighodalo Akhakpe. -- Section II,; title: State, oil and conflict.; title: Oil, state policy and conflict in the Niger Delta  -- Orji Nkwachukwu; title: Public policy and the Niger Delta question : the case of interventionist development agencies  -- A.A. Agagu; title: The resource curse : oil, communal agitation and state repression in the Niger Delta  -- Augustine Ikelegbe; title: Oil, youths and urban governance : the case of Warri  -- Anthony I. Ogbemi-Ifediora. -- Section III,; title: Crisis of social responsibility.; title: The crisis in relations : multinational oil companies and host communities in the Niger Delta  -- Augustine Ikelegbe; title: The nexus of corporate irresponsibility and state failure in Nigeria : an analytical framework  -- Remi Medupin; title: Oil and the politics of corporate social responsibility in the Niger Delta -- Dauda S. Garuba.; title: Section IV,; title: Oil, conflict and national security.; title: Conceptions of Third World security and the management of the emerging threats in the Niger Delta  -- Christopher Isike; title: Implications of the Niger Delta conflict for national security in Nigeria  -- Audu, Gambo. -- Section V,; title: The challenges : charting the way forward.; title: Environmental diseconomies and management strategies in the Nigerian petroleum industry : the need to evolve sustainable partnerships with host communities  -- Christopher O. Orubu, A. Yodele Odusola, and William Ehwarieme; title: The roles of non-farm employment and rural development in the resolution of the Niger Delta crisis  -- Okojie, E.I. & Ailemen, M.I.; title: The case for preventive mechanism as a strategy for resolving communal and ethnic conflicts in the Niger Delta  -- A.S. Akpotor & J.U. Azelama; title: Towards understanding and resolving environmental conflicts through research : an assessment of the Niger Delta Environmental Survey -- B.A. Chokor.