Land Use Planning & Water Law: Discordant Regulatory Provisions on Wetlands Conservation in Nigeria

• Nigeria… geo-ecological profile
• Global threat of water scarcity
• Drivers of water crisis in Nigeria
• Protection of wetlands
• Legal regime on wetlands in Nigeria
• Exemption of ‘traditional uses of wetlands’
• Discordant features of Nigeria’s wetlands regime
  Way forward

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New Paradigms & New Trends in Safeguarding the Earth

• Background to Paradigm Shift
• Global/National Trends
• Convergence of Trends
• The Role of Law
• Beyond “Law”

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International Environmental & Human Rights Law in Nigerian Courts

• Good Environmental Governance
• Environmental Democracy
• Inchoate Environmental Justice
• Barriers
• Environmental Citizen
• Way Forward

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Impacts of Oil Drilling & Climate Change

• The Niger Delta
• Oil Drilling Impacts
• Climate Change Impacts
• Responses… Mitigation and Adaptation Measures
• Way Forward

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Hurrican Katrina USA 2005

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Framework for the Cleanup of the Niger Delta

• Reinventing the Wheel?
• Background/In hindsight
• What steps to be taken?
• Can HYPREP deliver?
• Is the widely touted “Restructuring/Resource Control” an option
• Way forward

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