Importance Of Environmental Governance

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1. Environmental governance is a discipline that understudies systems, policies, laws, and practices that ensure environmental welfare.

2. From my undergraduate study, having pursued courses in Development Studies, Public Administration, Human Resource Development and Management, and Public Policy Process in Ghana, I have grasped the basic fact that governance is about promoting welfare of people, and a greater part of this conviction rests in creating and controlling an environment conducive for growth of individuals. This conviction also rest in knowledge of appropriate environmental governance policies and implementation processes. I have a strong awareness about the fact that the ability to make the environment worth living determines the quality of life in people within the environment. Governance and politics in Ghana though have been preoccupied with arrangements to promote environmental welfare, deeper rethinking into the situation …show more content…

My deepest sorrow for Ghana’s environmental challenge reached its climax when I recently visited five rural mining communities in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana as a member of a research team from Dalmort Consulting Limited to carry out GIZ’s community wellbeing programme for KEEGAN-(Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Survey 2014). During this period, I personally witnessed the heart wrenching pollution of river bodies, the wanton destruction of many hactares of Ghana’s evergreen reserved forests and the destruction of hundreds of acres of cocoa farms by illegal mining activities. I reason therein that environmental governance offers me a brilliant opportunity to understand the issues involved and to contribute to development of the environment and this has contributed to my motivation to pursue the

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