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Jeanne W. Clarke and Daniel McCool,Staking Out the Terrain: Power and Performance Among Natural Resource Agencies (2nd 4.).Larry S. Luton,The Politics of Garbage: A Community Perspective on Solid Waste Policy Making.Peter J. May, Raymond J. Burby, Neil J. Ericksen, John W. Handmer, Jennifer E. Dixon, Sarah Michaels, and D. IngleSmith, Environmental Management and Governance: Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability.

published_or_final_version ; Environmental Management ; Master ; Master of Science in Environmental Management

The South China Sea (SCS) is an important water body that affects a wide range of human security aspects, including the economy, food, health, and environment of the countries and people around it. Despite its importance, however, the marine environment in the SCS is deteriorating at an alarming rate. There is currently no overarching regional environmental protection regime in the SCS. Cooperation in this area between ASEAN and China is therefore critical, since marine environmental problems are often transboundary. This policy report identifies four policy pathways that are key to the effective protection of the marine environment in the SCS: a regional mechanism, law enforcement, marine scientific research, and multi-stakeholder cooperation.

Indiscriminate bill-postings have become one of the nuisances threatening the 'health' and aesthetic credibility of the physical environment in post-colonial Nigerian society. Although the problem is a serious one, it is yet to receive attention from the academia and other concerned authorities in Nigeria. It is within this context that this study examines bill-postings as pervasive media culture, using Edo Central District (ECD) of Edo State, Nigeria as a case study. In doing this, it adopts an evaluative methodology. This is complemented by interviews and random photographic snapshots of posted-bills across the district under examination. This study finds out that the indiscriminately posted-bills are eyesores, which apart from not being aesthetically pleasing, exacerbate the environmental management challenge in the ECD. It also discovers that the problem is a multilayered one, judging from the different kinds of posters that are commonly posted by diverse groups in society. Consequently, this paper asserts that probing the sociological causes and implications of the menace could offer some insights on how to redress the situation. To this end, a number of suggestions are made, with a view to improving the condition of the physical environment in ECD.