Climate Change Impacts on Nigeria (eBook)

This book explores the impacts of climate change on Nigeria. How climate change impacts the productivity and future development of different sectors in Nigeria was covered in this book. Various themes of the Nigerian economy, environment, and climate change were considered. Worthy of note are the impacts of climate change on the Nigerian air quality, surface and groundwater resources, watershed and natural resources' development and planning, soil- quality, fertility, salinization, nutrients and cropping patterns. Also, the impact of climate change on land use/land cover, urbanization and strategic planning, crops and sustainable crop yield; land degradation, soil erosion, landslides and landscapes, rainfall trend patterns, drought vulnerability; ecology, vegetation/forest, carbon and biomass management of Nigeria were investigated. Finally, the problems of climate change in semi-arid and arid regions (with special emphasis on Nigeria) and possible solutions for sustainable development under the changing climate were discussed in this book. Advanced technologies, such as remote sensing, GIS, multivariate analytical tools, and machine learning techniques, were utilized in the exploration and analysis of the themes of this book. Thus, this book is a very important product for point of view researchers, scientists, NGOs, and university communities on the Nigerian climate change. This book is a useful interdisciplinary tool, cutting across various disciplines such as earth sciences, hydrology, environmental sciences, soil science, engineering, remote sensing, natural resources management, and public health management, etc.

Johnbosco C. Egbueri holds a B.Sc. Degree (First Class Honours) in Geology from the Anambra State University (now Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University), Uli, Nigeria. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He also has professional certifications in HSE, Project Management, and Risk Assessment. He is an academic staff of the Department of Geology, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Nigeria. Dr. Egbueri has engaged in and successfully completed several research projects and has published many research articles in reputable peer-reviewed and top-ranking international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. His research interests are within the scope of Applied Geosciences: Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Geology and Medical Geology. Dr. Egbueri has served and is still serving as a Reviewer, Editorial Board Member, and Editor of several peer-reviewed international journals in his research areas.

Joshua O. Ighalo obtained his Bachelors' Degree in Chemical Engineering in 2015 from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He also received a Masters' Degree in Chemical Engineering in 2020 from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He is an academic staff of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He is a registered engineer by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). His research interests include water treatment and solid waste management. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.

Dr. Chaitanya B. Pande (Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University and Dr. PDKV, Akola), Ph.D. (Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati) has more than a decade of research and industrial experience. He has published 46 research papers in international journals with citations more than 697 and has presented more than 19 research papers in national and international conferences. He has published two previous books with Springer Nature. His research interests includes Remote Sensing, GIS, drought analysis, climate change, UAV, Modeling, Watershed management, Hydrogeology, Hydrological Modeling, Land Use and Land Cover analysis, Groundwater Quality modeling, urban planning, Hydro-geochemistry, Groundwater Modelling, Geology, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing and GIS application in natural resources management, watershed management and Environmental Monitoring and assessment subjects.