... infrastructure to facilitate and attract MNCs; this means that almost no money is spent by the government on environmental protection through legislation or implementing environment agencies such as SEPA in the Scotland. A report released by "Essential action and Global Change" in January 2000 claimed that almost every ... Mobil is that they have given Nigeria great foreign exchange earnings, but at the cost of the environment, health and well being of local residents.12 The question is how far governments will go to develop their country at the cost of its ... problems through inadequ...

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... places his environmental history' in a social, economic and political context, which strengthen his analysis. Everyone (maybe each in a different way) is concerned about our environmental history'. The environment is subjected to different natural degradations, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruption, floods or droughts. The other forms of environmental degradation and of resources exhaustions caused by the human activity (as ... control and conservation cannot keep up with. Because of governmental and social changes, people's ability to adapt themselves to environmental constraints is alw...

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... response to Hurricane Katrina, anthropologist Anthony Oliver- Smith noted that the "increasing complexity of [natural] disasters is rooted in the interplay of social and economic factors in the environment, exacerbating the vulnerability of people- and environments and intensifying impacts when they occur." (Oliver-Smith, 2005) Other attempts at operationalizing environmentally induced refugee movements have refined the ... government" (Oliver-Smith, 2005). The sudden rupture of the relationship of people to place in the wake of environmental disaster also has profound psychological impac...

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