Governance, Environment, and Sustainable Human Development in DRC

About the Book

This book considers Congolese society in a broader framework of social and environmental dimensions. It explains to a large extent how these dimensions depend on governance and assesses the impact of governance on the indices of human development and quality of life. Our Environment, Our Wealth is about environment for development to help fight against poverty. Protecting the environment is essential to attain a better life for the people. Whether it’s about climate change, energy innovation for clean air, forest management, fresh water, or waste, the environment affects all areas of our lives. Although these phenomena are not new; interest in environmental issues has been renewed in recent years. Faced with such challenges, specialists capable of combining natural and social sciences and humanities are needed to understand the different factors involved in its development.

About the Author

A native of Equateur Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nene Ndeta Mobimba is a social worker (high school) and has a bachelor’s degree in psychology in National Pedagogical University. He studied environment at the University of Kinshasa. He got a degree in environmental sciences conservation in the Stratford Career Institute in the United States of America. He is a PhD candidate in environmental health at the Bircham International University. He received an award in environment from the environment minister of the government of the DRC. He was a former member of the validation committee of experts of UNICEF on monitoring the child’s world summit (2000) group, Child and Environment in the DRC. He taught psychology and philosophy at the Pedagogy Institute of Lemba (high school) and has been the principal at Kasaka in Kinshasa. He was also a consultant at a psychopedagogical center (Mamiyo Kinshasa) and a school adviser and vocational guidance counselor. He worked at the Radio Télévision Nationale Congolaise (RTNC) as an administrative officer and reviewer on the issues of the environment. He’s the adviser of the Association of African Communication Professionals (APAC/DRC). He also taught courses in health legislation and environment, standardization, hydrogeology, epidemiology and prophylaxis, deontology, and general and human ecology in higher education at Higher Institute of Health Sciences/Red Cross (ISSS) and Higher Institute of Medical Technologies (ISTM/RB). As the head of sanitation and environment section responsible for education and research and sciences, he was promised to the grade director of estudantines works. Abroad, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, he taught industrial sanitation and ergonomics, safety, and environment in a professional degree, industrial and environmental engineering, building and electrical engineering, and environmental trades and applied technology. He was the cofounder of the NGO named Friends for Sustainable Wildlife, Flora, and Ecosystem Management, member of Library and lecturer at the American Cultural Center (Congo/Kinshasa).