Overview
- Discusses critical issues concerning a society's (Nigeria's) corporate existence
- Examines development and its possible sustainability from the standpoint of the human person
- Proposes proposing remedial steps towards capacity building and systemic transformation
Part of the book series: Environmental Humanities: Transformation, Governance, Ethics, Law (EHTGEL, volume 4)
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Since the issues and discourses surrounding sustainable development entered its phase in our contemporary world, the political, social, economic, ecological, and cultural existence of our modern world has inevitably adopted varied measures to respond better to the demands of our time. This book contributes to the global call for transitions and transformations towards a more sustainable human society. This contribution is specific, dialogic and comparative and also has deep cultural and ethnological consciousness based on the Nigerian experiences and, by extension, the African experience.
The research work presents as its background the hypothesis that varied forms of structures—socio-political, socio-economic, socio-ecological and socio-cultural—unite to constitute ‘structural sins’ (John Paul II) and, consequently, the banes to authentic and sustainable development. These dysfunctional structures were critically analysed and evaluated.
Furthermore, the research work takes up the contemporary discourse on sustainable development, beginning with earlier development concepts, the impactful contribution of social documents of the church to development discourse, the timeline of the general global and sustainable development approach and governance, as well as the specifics of the twin documents of the year 2015, namely Agenda 2030 and Laudato Si. Again, an indigenised manuscript for development discourse known as Nigeria Vision 20:2020 was examined to delineate the fact that forms of indigenous efforts to discuss and administrate the development process are noticeable. However, such efforts have remained negatively exploited by both internal and external man-made corrupt factors. One such factors discussed in this book, among others, is the failure of Nigeria since independence to stabilise its power and energy sector.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Systemic Remediation
Book Subtitle: Approaching Sustainable Development Narratives from the Nigerian Afro-Igbo Mmadụ Perspective
Authors: Chijioke Francis Nwosu
Series Title: Environmental Humanities: Transformation, Governance, Ethics, Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61909-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61908-3Published: 21 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61911-3Due: 04 September 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-61909-0Published: 20 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-5708
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 398
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Geography, general, Human Geography