CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN NIGERIA

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CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN NIGERIA
by Alesandra Ibobo \| 26-06-2018 11:43 0
Environmental justice emerged as a concept in United States in the early 1980's. Its proponents generally view the environment to readiness inequitable distribution of environmental burdens. Most important source of Nigeria's foreign exchange is crude oil, there have been increased activities in the oil sector in the area of exploitation refining export and domestic distribution. Though Nigeria has benefit immensely and it has also generated finance for the country, it has also created serious health and environmental problems with increase in oil activities and results in unfortunate consequences. It becomes clear that the law's remedies were not easily available to the victims of the pollution, this worked injustice on the victims. Further there was no comprehensive national policy and environmental statute for the country's environmental protection. It took the 1988 Koko toxic waste dung for the country to fashion out a national policy in the environment with supporting statutory legislations. However, even with the statutory legislation in place, the problem of the victims were far from others. These victims hardly get any justice from the count, this is because of the many implementation that comes with environmental litigation. The most troublesome being the doctrine of Locus standi - it is the common law doctrine that has found its way into our legal system, Locus standi is the existence of a right of an individual or group of individuals to bring action before a court of law for ad jurisdiction.

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Joon Ho Mentor says :
Hello Alesandra, as I do look at individual cases of each country with its specific environment conditions and economic conditions, freedom as equity and equity as freedom issues are always on the table, mentioned in the perspective of environmental justice.
Though there are some people who commit serious crimes and do not even try to be responsible for their activities, there are lots of people who 'indirectly' get harmed and affected from environment problems, and this goes over what Gyeongrin mentor said below.
Thanks for letting us think about this in 'logical' ways, but we still need to think of 'their' perspectives as you said in your report :)
Thanks!!
Posted 29-06-2018 23:24

Gyeongrin mentor says :
Hello Alesandra
When we look through several cases on environmental justice, victims are usually individuals who do not have enough power to re balance the inequity. So the work of bringing justice in this sector shouldn't be restricted to actual victims of incidents but are the duty of every member in this society to lead the world to fairness!
Thanks for the thoughtful report :)
Posted 29-06-2018 13:26

Deepak Subedi says :
Environment justice is a very tough work to do in any place of earth along with development, but we have to try to provide justice to our mother earth. Thanks for sharing.n
Posted 26-06-2018 22:47