Towards Enhanced Nigerian Built Environment: Tripartite Partnership For Effective Re-Afforestation Strategy
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2009
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Academic Research Associates, Abuja, Nigeria
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The elastic demand of mankind in satisfying his daily needs impacts adversely on the constituents of the Built Environment and this necessitates the need to devise appropriate means to maintain a sustainable healthy environment. As such, against the backdrop of various re-afforestation strategies put in place to checkmate the menace of deforestation in Nigeria which have proved rather in-effective, this paper makes case for an inclusive policy option involving the Government at the high level of the Federal Bureaucratic Structures, the Public especially at the Grassroots where the actual policy implementation is carried out as well as the Private Sector which sometimes acts in-between. It begins with review of the extent of the problem in the country to emphasize its seriousness. It then appraises the efforts so far in respect of the existing legislations as well as other strategies adopted to address the problem with a view to identifying such factors responsible for their in-effectiveness. The paper then concludes by suggesting a tripartite approach involving the Government, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs i.e. the Private Sector) as well as the Public to address the problem
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Deforestation, Desertification, Forest, Re-afforestation, Built Environment