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ICT and the Environment: Strategies to Tackle Environmental Challenges in Nigeria

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Environmental change has become an important issue in many African countries with much recent discussion focusing on the harmful health and environmental impact resulting from human activities such as fossil fuel, oil spillages and others in the Global South. Many efforts are being carried out to deal with the issue of climate change and environmental degradation. One effort is the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) as an instrument for environmental protection and the sustainable use of natural resources. ICT can be leveraged to tackle harmful environmental change. This chapter offers an overview of how ICTs can be used to benefit the environment in Nigeria. Guidance on how to leverage technology for the good of the environment in Nigeria is provided.

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    http://www.smart2020.org/.

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    www.climateactionprogramme.org.

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    https://greennigeria.wordpress.com/tag/ict-climate-change-nigeria/.

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    https://www.britannica.com/science/Cenozoic-Era.

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    https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/strategies/2020_en.

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This publication has emanated from research supported in part by a grant from Science Foundation Ireland under grant number 18/CRT/6222.

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    Tochukwu Ikwunne & Lucy Hederman

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Hamid R. Arabnia

  2. School of Computing and Data Sciences, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA

    Leonidas Deligiannidis

  3. Graduate School of Information Science & Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan

    Hayaru Shouno

  4. Facultad de Informática - CIC PBA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

    Fernando G. Tinetti

  5. Department of Computer Science, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, USA

    Quoc-Nam Tran

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Ikwunne, T., Hederman, L. (2021). ICT and the Environment: Strategies to Tackle Environmental Challenges in Nigeria. In: Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L., Shouno, H., Tinetti, F.G., Tran, QN. (eds) Advances in Computer Vision and Computational Biology. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71051-4_39

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