Environment and Sustainable Development A Guide for Higher Education in Kenya
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Date
2007
Authors
Makokha, K.
Muthiane, N.
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Publisher
School of Environmental Studies and Human Sciences, Kenyatta University
Abstract
Over the last five decades the world has witnessed a number of significant and
unprecedented environmental problems on scales not witnessed before, such
as environmental deqradation and pollution, loss of biodiversity, 'global warming
and climate. Emerging environmental problems like HIV/AIDS poverty, and invasive
species (for example water weeds in inland water bodies) pose a real challenge to
economic development and sustainable living in poor countries. The most disturbing
fact about environmental problems is that they are mainly human-caused. These
problems are exemplified by increased pollution in all forms, wanton destruction of
forests, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, disposal of toxic wastes and
garbage, extinction of numerous species of both flora and fauna, among others.
These problems are attributed to many causes, such as technology, poverty, poor
governance, and civil wars among others. Whatever the specific cause, these
problems herein collectively referred to as 'environmental crisis' are intricately
connected and have implications of up to global proportions on development.
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