IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Environmental planning is the process of supporting decision making for development while taking into account natural environmental, social, political, economic, and governance issues, and it provides a comprehensive framework for achieving sustainable outcomes.
Environmental planning is concerned with the decision-making processes required for managing connections between natural and human systems. Environmental planning is to manage these processes in an effective, orderly, transparent, and equitable manner for the benefit of all stakeholders in such systems, both now and in the future.
Current environmental planning techniques are the product of ongoing refinement and development of such decision-making procedures. Some of the primary components of current environmental planning are:
Social and Economic Development
Urban development.
Regional development.
Natural Resource Management and Integrated Land Use
Infrastructure systems
Governance Frameworks
An Integrated environmental planning assessment considers landuse, socioeconomics, transportation, economic and housing characteristics, air pollution, noise pollution, wetlands, endangered species habitat, flood zone susceptibility, coastal zone erosion, and visual studies, among other factors. The capacity to analyse environmental challenges will help make vital decisions.
Traditionally, environmental planning has relied heavily on the interdisciplinary study of environmental systems, particularly in the sciences and economics.
The underlying value system has primarily been an economic market paradigm. Some academics argue that this strategy fails to encompass a broad range of societal values and environmental concerns, and they propose a more multidisciplinary approach that focusses on long-term resource management and sustainability.
New approaches are emerging that mix transdisciplinary research, ecological economics, and social science. Most importantly, collaborative methods attempt to integrate a diverse variety of values and viewpoints in environmental management. The ecosystem method focusses on a new scientific framework for examining environmental challenges, as well as an extended notion of an ecosystem.
1.2. Statement Of The Problem.
Over the years, rural regions in Nigeria have been seen to have suffered from absolute neglect (Olatubosun 1975, Mabogunje, 1968) and exhibit what has been accurately termed as the three Ds: depression, degradation, and deprivation (Igiebor Nosa et al., 1986a).
The colonial administrators constantly took a casual yet opportunistic attitude towards rural development through neglect, low budget allocation to the rural sector, and failure to provide rural amenities and infrastructure (Olatubosun 1978, cited by Falade 1990).
Given that rural areas in Nigeria employ more than 70% of the population and accounted for 84% of the country’s GDP at independence and around 60% in 1965, the neglect endured by rural communities is pitiful and unjustifiable.
1.3 Significance of the Study
Rural development must be tightly linked to appropriate environmental objectives and targets in order to make effective progress towards environmental planning. This study aims to focus emphasis on the rural environment for planning and development.
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The aims of this study include, but are not limited to:
Assess the impact of environmental planning on rural development.
To assess whether environmental planning aids in the development of rural communities.
1.5 Research questions.
To meet the above-stated aims, the following questions were asked:
Does environmental planning have a substantial impact on rural development?
Does environmental planning contribute to the development of rural communities?
1.6 Research Hypotheses
Environmental planning has a big impact on rural development. It does not contribute to the development of rural areas. Environmental planning contributes to the development of rural communities.
1.7 Limitations of the Study
The study’s scope was constrained by two key factors: funding constraints and time. Insufficient funds and time tend to hamper the researcher’s efficiency in accessing important resources, literature, or information, as well as in data collecting (internet, questionnaire, and interview).
1.8 Scope of the Study
The paper examines the impact of environmental planning on rural development, utilising Uli Local Government Area in Anambra as a case study.
1.9 Definition of Terms
The environment is the setting or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
Planning is the process of creating plans for anything.
Environmental planning is the process of supporting decision making for development while taking into account natural, environmental, social, political, economic, and governance variables, and it provides a holistic framework for achieving sustainable outcomes.
Development is the process of developing or being developed.
Rural development is the process of enhancing the quality of life and economic well-being for people living in remote and sparsely inhabited places.
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