CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Successive governments in Nigeria have tried to resolve some societal problems by enacting or putting into place different policies at one time or the other. For example, in order to reduce the high rate of poverty in the country, the Federal Government introduced some policies aimed at reducing the poverty level by 2010. This was the case in Asari-Toru local government area of Rivers State. It is true that the Asari – Toru Local Government council
log frame, which increasingly was not sufficient to explain project logic for complex programmes. From the social practice, perspective there was increased debate on how development and social change occurs with development practitioners searching for tools to attempt to consciously reflect on the underlying theories for development practice (Craig valters 2014) A theory of change can be a helpful tool for developing solutions to complex social problems. At its most basic, a theory of change explains
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. Introduction Recently there has been much waste water in world especially in Malaysia. Water poses the main sources to human life and livelihood in every parts of the world. Accordingly to the research shows that water waste overall came from outside which is from landscaping and irrigation activity. Malaysia just recognize this problem and came out with several alternative to settle down it. Malaysia just starting looking forward finding and research new alternative
collection in cities attract investors and entrepreneurs which is good for overall economic development. Many of the problems of urban poverty are fixed in a difficulty of resource and capacity restrictions, poor Government
vital to the societal development and people’s mobility. The increased urbanization has resulted in the growth of transport industry due to the demand for moving from one place to another. It means transport services acts as a linkage of different geographical locations. There are various forms of transport including land, water, and air. Land is the most used because development and design of infrastructures in transport industry are highly dependent on social developments, as well as the
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 INTRODUCTION Millions of people across the world rely on tea. Tea originates from china as a medicinal crop and it has now grown to a multi-billion dollar global industry. In China for instance has over 80 million tea growers, in India it has an estimation of 2 million seasonal tea labourers and a million permanent tea workers while in our country Kenya it supports over three million people. As we depend on it to earn our living so it does to millions of workers around
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Preface Sewage is water that carried waste, and also known as wastewater that to be removed to preserve the quality of our environment of Malaysian rivers, streams and coasts. Sewage can be characterised in chemical, physical, and biological. The main physical, chemical and biological elements of domestic sewage is more than 99% water and is characterised by volume of flow, physical condition, chemical composition and the bacteria organisms that it contains. (A. Mason
Local Literature In an article of The Fisheries Improved for Sustainable Harvest entitled: “Why Protect Mangroves”, the total mangrove area in the Philippines has decreased from an estimated coverage of 450,000 ha in 1918 to less than 120,000 ha in the late 1990’s, this rapid decrease in mangrove coverage occurred during the 1960’s and 1970’s when national policies encouraged the expansion of aquaculture. It is evaluated that the estimation of a complete mangrove biological system ranges from US$500
According to the Greek philosopher Pindar, the best of all things is water. This view is notsurprising since the need for water, throughout human history, has always been appreciated. It is present everywhere, and without water, life, as it is known, will simply cease to exist. Water is constantly in motion, passing from one state to another and fromone location to another. Whether the water is in motion, or stationary as it is in lakes, itinvariably contains extraneous materials, some due to natural
Chapter One Introduction Globalization and the entry of more nations to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have fuelled growth in seaborne trade. A United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 2009) report shows that the world‘s total merchandise trade value reached 8.02 billion tons of goods loaded, a volume increase of 4.8% over 2006. An increasing growth in world trade generally increases the demand for international shipping services (Michaelowa and Krause 2000). This has been