LAWS, POLICIES AND STRATEGIES AGAINST AIR POLLUTION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The paper carries out a review of the sources and impacts of air pollution and applicable laws, legal strategies and policies as instruments for combating air pollution in Nigeria and some other nations of the globe. The paper commences with a background, an examination of the sources and impacts of air pollution on the environment, humanity and effects of acid rain, the greenhouse, ozone layer depletion on the future of human life on planet earth, and a further examination of applicable laws, policies and strategies for legal control of air pollution. The paper ends with a conclusion and set of recommendations. In achieving the aims of the paper, it adopts an admixture of the comparative, empirical, the law and development approaches, in relevant areas.