Petroleum Development & the Environment in Rivers State Nigeria

This book discusses the environment in Rivers State of the oil-rich Niger Delta in the context of 'One Global Environment' and mankind's 'Common Future'. It examines the 2011 UNEP Report on Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland alongside human and environmental rights abuses in the Niger Delta and recommends formal institutionalisation of Strategic Environmental Assessment and overall Strategic Assessment to boost effective implementation of policies, plans and programmes, besides environmental governance and human wellbeing in Ogoniland and other parts of the Niger Delta and Nigeria. It stresses that good governance (GG) and sustainable development (SD) are interwoven, and thus underscores the need for GG to transform Nigeria's prevailing 'resource curse' into a blessing and soft law modes of conduct and practices into hard SD-oriented laws and practices, based on emerging UN-led global standards and practices. The book is relevant to the oil-rich Niger Delta, Nigeria at large (especially her statesmen and government regulatory organs), public-spirited individuals and groups, extractive industrial operations' interest groups, policymakers, scholars and students around the globe.