Nigerian forests
Subtitle: protection and sustainable development
By: Eyo Okon, Deni Bown, Augustine Isichei, editors
Contributors: Joseph Ayo Babalola University; JABU Environment Symposium (2011 : Joseph Ayo Babalola University); Okon, Eyo
Series: JABU environment symposium series
Publisher: Joseph Ayo Babalola University
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State [Nigeria]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789788447009
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Forest protection; Congresses; Forest conservation; Sustainable forestry; Forests and forestry; Forest management
Other titles: Protection and sustainable development
Notes: "JABU Environment Symposium Series"--Title page.

Conference theme: "Forest: Nature At Your Service."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Forest: Nature At Your Service : keynote address for JABU Symposium World Environment Day 2011  -- Chief Philip C. Asiodu, CON; title: Forest resources, our environment, and us  -- Solomon O. Badejo; title: Forest, human nutrition, and food security in Nigeria : strategies for achieving our Millennium Goals  -- David O. Ladipo; title: Forests : issues in environmental law  -- Margaret T. Okorodudu-Fubara; title: Protecting our forest resources through an effective access and benefit-sharing regime  -- Ngeri S. Benebo; title: Managing Nigerian forests for sustainability--perspectives, issues, and possible strategies  -- Ayo Fatubarin; title: Forest degradation : community-based forest management as a possible solution  -- Adetokunbo O. Adeola; title: The community-based approach to conservation : lessons from the example of Iko Esai village in Nigeria  -- Nicolien Schoneveld; title: REDD : from an integrated (Nigerian) perspective  -- Emmanuel Obot; title: Soil, sustainable agriculture, and forestry development  -- Trenchard O. Ibia; title: Agroforestry and sustainable forest management  -- Moses O. Adedire; title: Community carbon forestry at Afi Forest Complex, Cross River State, Nigeria  -- Emmanuel Obot; title: Participatory (carbon) forest management : a case-study from the Mambila Plateau, Nigeria -- A. Aderopo and Emmanuel Obot; title: The forest and wildlife survival : a review of the situation in Nigeria  -- Ebenezer A. Agbelusi and Babafemi G. Ogunjemite; title: Bats : unique forest animals  -- Eyo E. Okon and Femi Ayoade; title: Insects and sustainable management of forest resources  -- Babajide A. Matanmi; title: Forestry and greening the built environment  -- Ade Adedokun; title: The hydrology and physico-chemical water quality of River Owena--a typical rainforest river, Southwest Nigeria  -- Israel F. Adeniyi; title: Biotechnology and Nigerian environmental problems  -- Olu Odeyemi; title: Plant invasions in Nigeria  -- Augustine O. Isichei and Morodoluwa A. Akin-Fajiye; title: Medicinal plants as a forest resource  -- Deni Bown; title: Nigerian plants of medicinal importance  -- Lara O. Orafidiya; title: Forestry and urban agriculture : panacea for environmental degradation in Nigerian cities  -- Emmanuel F. Omisore; title: The challenge of horticulture and forestry practice in Nigeria : an underdeveloped renewable resource base of a growing nation  -- Edem A. Eniang and Enefiok S. Udo; title: Correlates of self-directed and stereotypic behaviors in captive red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus torquatus)  -- L. Reamer, Z. Tooze, C. Coulson, and S. Semple; title: The IITA Forest Project -- Deni Bown.