Training Africa's Youth In Waste Management And Climate Change

About the Book

This textbook is a guide for primary and junior high school pupils in African countries to promote greater levels of sustainable development. The book seeks to help these pupils to become better environmental leaders by educating them on waste management and climate change. The reasons for putting forward lessons in waste management and climate change for training students lie in the fact that as future leaders, students need to be aware of the need to preserve their environment for the use of future generations. According to an old African adage, the present generation holds the environment in trust for use by future generations. If we identify with this wise saying, we will develop appropriate means to educate our children about environmental sustainability at the earliest possible stage in their education. This conforms to the sustainable development principle which calls for the preservation of the environment for the benefit of future generations. In order to arrive at its aim, this book discusses in simplified terms the reasons for promoting waste management and the need to fight climate change, two serious environmental problems which have had increasingly negative impacts on the ecology of countries. The book then puts forward a series of lessons in waste management and climate change for students to learn and practise so as to have a practical effect at school and in their respective communities.

About the Author

Dr Yvonne Nana Afua Idun is a senior lecturer in law and chairperson of Public Law at the Kenyatta University School of Law in Nairobi, Kenya. Her previous experiences include being a programme officer at the UN University-International Leadership Institute in Jordan and an environmental policy analyst at the UN University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, based in Ghana. She has also lectured and conducted research at the Africa Institute of South Africa, the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Yale Law School in the USA. She has undertaken consultancy assignments with the UN Women in the Dominican Republic; the UNDP offices in USA, Benin, and Liberia; the UNIDO and IUCN offices in Ghana; as well as the UNECA in Ethiopia. As part of these professional experiences, she has translated policy briefs, reports, and legal documents from French into English. Dr Idun holds a BA in law and French from the University of Ghana, a certificate in French language proficiency and civilization from the Institut Supérieur Privé in France, an LLM in the law of international trade from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD in international environmental law and the law of international trade from the University of Cape Town. Her current activities include being a founding member of the Alliance for Migration, Leadership and Development, an NGO in Senegal. She is also an editorial advisor of the board of advisors of the African Journal of Clinical Legal Education and Access to Justice and a member of the Réseau de Femmes Africaines et Espagnoles pour un Monde Meilleur in the Canary Islands, the Mother’s Mercy Home orphanage project in Limuru, Kenya, and the Population Environment Research Network at CIESIN Columbia University in the USA. Dr Idun has authored books and articles within the field of gender, trade, and environment. She has a keen interest in rural development, refugee protection, and poverty alleviation.