Connected by oil: A framework to analyze the connected sustainability histories of the Niger and Rhine Deltas, 1950-2015

Veraart, Frank; Smits, JM Jan; Vleuten, Erik van der

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2019.12.004

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“…Nigeria is Africa's biggest producer of petroleum and the sixth largest producer in the world. Crude oil production capacity of the country, which is concentrated in the Niger Delta (Veraart et al, 2020) and adjoining offshore wells stands at 2.3 million barrels per day. There is at least 38.2 billion barrels of crude oil reserves in Nigeria.…”

Section: Environmental Degradation In Nigeria and The Role Of Hyprepmentioning

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Inclusive environmental decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from the Ogoni remediation project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Sam

Zibima

2023

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Greater involvement of women is globally believed to enhance environmental management outcomes. However, despite being disproportionately affected by environmental degradation primarily caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, women in the region are often excluded in environmental decision-making processes. Women involved in farming and fishing face increased vulnerability to contaminated land, food insecurity and conflicts driven by environmental degradation. Using a mixed approach, women, lawmakers, policymakers, regulators, civil society organizations, environmental management practitioners, and government agents responsible for environmental remediation were engaged through interviews, focus group discussions and questionnaires to examine women inclusion in environmental decision-making and governance in the Ogoni contaminated land remediation project in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The results indicate that lack of trust and confidence in drivers of environmental decision-making process could affect women participation and involvement in environmental management. Although cultural beliefs and practices impede women participation in the region, women participation in itself does not translate to inclusion in environmental decision-making due to limited capacity, confidence and trust in the process. Creating platforms for capacity building, developing gender policy, adapting appropriate communication strategy, initiating women networks and strengthening social cohesion could enhance women involvement in environmental decision-making in regions with similar cultural context to the Niger Delta region.

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Section: Environmental Degradation In Nigeria and The Role Of Hyprepmentioning

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Inclusive environmental decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from the Ogoni remediation project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Sam

Zibima

2023

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“…The trade-off between global Northern development and Southern impoverishment have been a central direction of critical anti-colonial scholarship for much of the past century (Rodney 1972;Okonta and Douglas 2001). The implications of extensive global environmental injustice prompt the reassessment of sustainability measurement on a transnational scale (Veraart et al, 2020) and have been the pivot of pipeline from field observations utilizing surface area methods can be very poor at accurately arriving at a true final number for oil actually released because of such factors as: 1) evaporation effects, 2) migration (both surface and subsurface), as well as 3) errors/uncertainties in measurement/ assumption. Surface area approaches might be adequate for small rate (small hole/ opening or crack releases of a short duration) affecting a small area, but will most likely significantly underestimate oil released for larger opening/ much higher rate, longer duration releases, especially pipeline ruptures over a widely dispersed area.…”

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Consistently unreliable: Oil spill data and transparency discourse

Watts

Zalik

2020

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Our recent research reveals enormous discrepancies in oil spill data disclosed by regulatory institutions and corporate sources in Nigeria. Federal agencies as well as major international oil corporations publish inconsistent and sometimes contradictory figures, often employing different spatial or regional categorizations. Uncertainties pertaining to data veracity in the Niger Delta, alongside the thin scientific record inflect deeply contentious debates regarding the country's oil industry. For advocacy organizations, the result is that those seeking to monitor oil spills may spend hours trying to square and cross-reference uneven information, time that could otherwise be spent assessing the scale of impacts and analyzing the complex structural causes surrounding them. Scholarly work in other jurisdictions indicates that the staging of non-transparent, incoherent and/or intentionally misleading data on oil spill risks is not unique to Nigeria, leading to a kind of epistemological vertigo in studying this sector.

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“…Nigeria is Africa’s largest producer of petroleum and the sixth largest producer in the world. Crude oil production capacity of the country, which is concentrated in the Niger Delta (Veraart et al 2020 ) and adjoining offshore wells stands at 2.3 million barrels per day. There is at least 38.2 billion barrels of crude oil reserves in Nigeria.…”

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confidence: 99%

Inclusive Environmental Decision-making in a Developing Nation: Insights from the Ogoni Remediation Project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Sam,

Zibima

2023

Environmental Management

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Greater involvement of women is globally believed to enhance environmental management outcomes. Despite being disproportionately affected by environmental degradation primarily caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, women in the region are often excluded in environmental decision-making processes. Women involved in farming and fishing face increased vulnerability to contaminated land, food insecurity and conflicts driven by environmental degradation. Using a mixed approach, women, lawmakers, policymakers, regulators, civil society organizations, environmental management practitioners, and government agents responsible for environmental remediation were engaged through interviews, focus group discussions and questionnaires to examine women’s inclusion in environmental decision-making and governance in the Ogoni contaminated land remediation project in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The results indicate that lack of trust and confidence in drivers of the environmental decision-making process could affect women’s participation and involvement in environmental management. Although cultural beliefs and practices impede the participation of women in the region, their actual participation does not independently translate into inclusion in environmental decision-making due to limited capacity, confidence and trust in the process. Creating platforms for capacity building, developing gender policy, adapting appropriate communication strategies, initiating women networks and strengthening social cohesion could enhance women involvement in environmental decision-making in regions with similar cultural context to the Niger Delta region.

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Connected by oil: A framework to analyze the connected sustainability histories of the Niger and Rhine Deltas, 1950-2015

Cited by 5 publications

References 57 publications

Inclusive environmental decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from the Ogoni remediation project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Inclusive environmental decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from the Ogoni remediation project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Consistently unreliable: Oil spill data and transparency discourse

Inclusive Environmental Decision-making in a Developing Nation: Insights from the Ogoni Remediation Project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

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