THE IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON DEVELOPMENT WITH PRACTICAL EXAMPLES FROM AFRICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

Climate Change, Geography, Environmental Science

Global Environmental Change is an increasingly discussed phenomenon in the scientific literature as evidence of its presence and impacts continues to emerge from different corners of the world. These changes in the environment one way or the other has significant effects on the development of the world economy. As a result, this paper sought to assess the impacts of environmental change on development with practical examples from Africa and the rest of the world. It specifically identified the factors responsible for environmental change; examined the relationship between environmental change and development; and the impacts of these changes on development with examples from Africa and the rest of the world. The paper is purely a desktop descriptive work and as such employed the use of secondary data obtained from the internet, books, global reports and journal articles for the description of the phenomenon under study. From the study, it can be concluded that the global environment is changing on a higher rate as a result of both natural and anthropogenic factors. These factors range from volcanic eruptions, ozone layer depletion, climate change, atmospheric and water pollution as well as deforestation. The changes in the environment has negative consequences on the natural environment, human health and economic development. This therefore has resulted in the low quality of life of individuals in the global economy. It is recommended that the global economy inculcate into their policies, programmes and project most of the multilateral agreements geared towards mitigating environmental change.

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