THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROGRAMME
The philosophy of the programme is the training of personnel from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, to the highest academic standards in the identification and resolution of environmental issues.
Though a relatively recent academic and professional discipline, it is quite over ambitious in its focus to analytically study in a special methodological fashion all the environmental stresses; exploitative, disruptive and eutrophic – with a view to not only find mitigating measures but more relevantly to proffer preventive measures. Its philosophical orientation entails the conception of and planning for a livable environment. It is thus not to be seen only as a negative measure of preventing nuisance but more importantly as a positive measure for promoting the beauty of the total environment.
Environmental Management is a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive process of guarding and guiding the use of environment. It operates through the instrumentality of statutory land-use planning which encompasses the broad range of rural and urban affairs as well as pollution control with specific reference to air, land, water, hazardous substances, waste and recycling, nuclear power, and radioactive waste, noise, odour, vibration and flooding.
Thus, the programme is meant to inculcate the relevant body of knowledge into the trainees in order to equip them with adequate skills for the purpose of environmental monitoring, research, information exchange, review, evaluation and management of human habitat as special ecological systems.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME
Accordingly, the main objectives are:
- to acquire sufficient and relevant academic and technical knowledge and skill for dealing with the problems of our environment.
- to acquire through practical field exposure and laboratory analysis, the multidisciplinary perspectives that bear on enlightened application of the problems of environmental management.
- to develop the skill to work as a team in order to achieve multidisciplinary synthesis for tackling the problems that emanate in the use of natural resources, as well as to achieve sustainable development in various aspects of human endeavors.
- to develop skills for environmental auditing and/or building up reliable geographic information system that leads to enlightened environment-based policy and decision-making processes.
- to develop in students a wide range of Useful competencies in public, private or self-employment.