期刊名称：Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences
电子版ISSN：2141-7024
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：7
页码：324-331
出版社：Scholarlink Resource Centre
摘要：As Nigeria experiences a major thrust in economic development, there is the utmost need to ensure that thenecessary social and environmental safeguards are put in place to guarantee a development that is sustainable,especially in the long run. This paper emphasizes the urgent imperative for a proper integration of environmentalmanagement education into the national capacity building strategy for a sustainable development which strives toensure the balancing of economic, social and environmental forces in Nigeria’s development process. Environmentalmanagement education basically aims at improving awareness, knowledge and skills, and actually changing theattitude of the people towards sustainable use of the environment. Serious efforts must be made to promoteenvironmental studies if Nigeria intends to successfully combat her many environmental problems ranging from thethreats of desertification and desert encroachment in the North to the menace of erosion, deforestation, oil spillage,sea level rise and coastal flooding in the South. Nigeria’s environmental management education strategies arediscussed while government’s role in promoting environmental studies in schools is highlighted. The paperrecommends the adoption of environmental management education as an important component of Nigeria’s nationalcapacity building strategy to ensure sustainable development
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