VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONFLICT IN NIGERIA

¹Fatile Jacob o., ²Adejobi, O Samson and Olorunnimbe, R.O.

Department of Public Administration, Lagos State University, Nigeria

²Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Lagos State University, Ojo Nigeria

E-mail:depoprince@yahoo.com.jaco@yahoo.com & olorunimbe@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Climate change refers to change in climate attributable directly or indirectly to human activities, that alters the atmospheric composition of the earth. It has potential of affecting all human natural and cultural systems. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change, and may be a threat to human development and survival. Socially, politically and   economically, these might leads to competition for scarce resources, which enhances and creates socio-environmental conflicts.  However, in the quest for individual and collective responses to the possible impacts of climate change on humankind, there has been review of the situation from a conflict-sensitive perspective. To establish the way in which the effect of climate change can cause or further intensify socio-environmental conflicts. This paper has been prepared on the basis of survey carried out using primary and secondary sources.(interviews with selected key stakeholders and documentation including projects, press articles, official statistics).It later argued for the need to develop appropriate strategies in mitigating the impacts of these vulnerability to  climate change on Nigeria environmental  conflicts,  The paper concludes that development and implementation of appropriate policy instruments will be important in ensuring that the country effectively addresses its adaptation challenges to deals with the  issue of  vulnerability to climate change and conflict management  in Nigeria Keywords;Climate change, Environmental-Conflicts, Adaptability, Vulnerability, Mitigation