书目名称 | Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa | 编辑 | Kelechi Johnmary Ani | 视频video | | 概述 | Discusses the role of local autonomy in the Niger Delta peace building process.Discusses how environmental factors influence the nature of diplomacy between one country and another.Shows the history o | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .The book discusses the failure of many African governments in providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources. Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned, explored and marketed by the machinery of the state. The problem arises when the masses begin to challenge state access and ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral land, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government officials. ..Paradoxically, in Niger Delta of Nigeria, as discussed in the book, the state has unleashed unlimited might upon all social groups and agitators, thereby leading to the increased act of taking arms by such groups. When the informal resource agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand social and environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict between them and the government security agencies. Sometimes, the confrontation could be between them and oth | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | 关键词 | Environmental Politics; Africa; Geopolitics; Resource Conflict; MDGs in Africa; Natural Resources | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7343-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-19-7343-7 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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