Impact of Human Activities on Nature, Public Health and Environment Sustainability in Nigeria

Augustine Nduka Eneanya

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Impact of Human Activities on Nature, Public Health and Environment Sustainability in Nigeria

Augustine Nduka Eneanya

Published in International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy (Volume 10, Issue 6)

Received: 1 July 2022 Accepted: 19 December 2022 Published: 29 December 2022

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Abstract

The Nigerian community is wrestling with conflicting views about resources from human standpoint. Though, nature provides natural resources and services that keep people alive human activities have been acknowledged to affect public health and health of the ecosystem in Nigeria. The aim of this study is to interrogate the impacts of human activities on nature public health and environmental sustainability. Qualitative research technique was adopted for this study. Data were collected from secondary sources. Secondary data were collected from extant literature, textbooks, government records, journal articles, internet, United Nations reports and newspapers. Content-analysis technique was adopted to elicit key concepts, which were edited, sorted, pattern-matched, and coded into themes, such as: nature, natural resources, human activities, public health and sustainability. Thematic and Secondary data analysis techniques were adopted to analyze, interpret and answer the research questions. Findings showed that air pollution from fossil fuel emission, water, Urban sprawl and land use, biodiversity and habitat loss, fossil fuel emission, oil spills affected public health, ecosystem health and environmental sustainability in Nigeria. The study concluded that human activities on nature and its elements in the ecosystem affect public health. It recommended that mitigation of human activities on nature would protect the environment, promote agricultural gains, curb food insecurity, and sustain the environment.

Published in	International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy (Volume 10, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijepp.20221006.11
Page(s)	140-145
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Nature, Natural Resources, Human Activities, Public Health and Sustainability

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Department of Political Science, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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