Proposed Instruments for Sustainable Environmental Management of Vulnerable Areas in Kebbi State

Abstract

The environment around Zuru, Kebbi State is changing rapidly. This environmental change is a product of natural processes and human activity. Population growth and migration has added thousands of people and increased the demand for resources. Human impacts interact with the natural processes to threaten the environment’s capacity to function effectively and also to increase people’s vulnerability to disaster events. There is therefore the need to develop sustainable and practicable instruments for sustainable management of the environment. The development of the instruments is a multidisciplinary work as such requires a mixture of a wide range of existing proposals and instruments such as land information systems, land zoning, etc that will help to reduce to a manageable level the threat posed on the environment, the people and their livelihoods by both nature and the activities of men which exacerbate such threats. The tools presented in this paper are based on the review of available literature and site investigations carried out in the selected area.