Socio Economic Challenges

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The chapter presents a review of key concepts that are central to this study. This will be carried out using internet searches and collecting the information gathered by previous study analysis of environmental challenges and socio economic activities experts all over the world. The chapter offers an overview of socio economic activities, environmental challenges, socio economic activities and environmental challenges and socio economic indicators. i. Socio economic activities Socio economic activities refer to socio economics or social economics that is the socio science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes. It analyzes how societies progress, stagnate or regress because of their local, regional or…show more content…
Socio economic activities and environmental challenges Environmental sustainability plays a critical role in socio-economic impact, especially over time. Tools for measuring environmental impact are already relatively well-established. According to United Nation Environmental Program mentioned that several human factors drive, influence and affect environmental change at the global, regional, national and local levels. Environmental change drivers can vary into nature and scope but can be broadly grouped together as economic and social; demographic; conflict and governance and science and technology (UNEP…show more content…
The main environmental challenges face African countries are related to climate change, biodiversity, pollution and waste, unsustainable management of water resources and depletion of marine and coastal. About 27 percent of global land degradation with 500 million hectares of moderate is severely degraded land in Africa (Ndoye and Sindayigaya 2009). People in Africa are at the center of sustainable development in rural and urban areas. Although still largely rural, the region has been experiencing major transformation in terms of population composition and distribution, with positive and negative implications for the environment and development. The challenge is not to arrest development but to use the available resources in a more productive and efficient manner, ensuring better and more equitable returns to people while at the same time lessening pressure on the environment (AEO2
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