TY - GEN digital ID - 131907769 TI - Sand Mining in African Coastal Regions : Exploring the Drivers, Impacts and Implications for Environmental Sustainability in Lagos Nigeria AU - Aliu, Ibrahim Rotimi AU - Akoteyon, Isaiah Sewanu AU - Soladoye, Olayemi PY - 2022 SN - 9783031165221 9783031165214 9783031165238 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Nature protection KW - Measuring methods in physics KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Geography KW - milieubeleid KW - geografie KW - milieutechnologie KW - milieubeheer UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131907769 AB - This book explores the drivers and impacts of sand mining in the coastal areas of Lagos Nigeria. Based on empirical evidence, sand mining activity is driven by a number of urbanization-related factors while sand mining impacts are underlined by a number of sustainability-related factors. Four urbanization components describe the drivers of sand mining and four sustainability components describe the impacts of sand mining in Lagos. This book concludes on the puzzling dilemma of sand mining that supports thriving urbanization but undermines environmental sustainability in Lagos. Of course, sand mining has strong implications for environmental sustainability in Lagos coastal areas. This book is of immense benefit to environmental planners, city administrators, students of environmental science and the general public who have regards for environmental management. . ER -