Environmental Pollution: Types, Causes, Impacts and Management for the Health and Socio-economic Well-being of Nigeria Professor
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چکیده
According to Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) Act of 1990, under section 38 a very lucid definition of environment was given as thus: ‘Environment includes water, air, land and all plants and human beings and/or animals living there in and the interrelationships which exist among these or any of them.’’ Thus, ‘’environment’’ comprises land, air, water and all the physical structures surrounding us.
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