It is generally acknowledged that environment plays a crucial role in the evolution and development of societies. Indeed experience all over the world has shown that human societies every where must face ecological problems which are peculiar to their own setting. Little wonder therefore that governments through the ages have concerned themselves with finding out how best man, can utilize their environments with a view to bringing about significant and beneficial changes. It is in recognition of this need that the Obafemi Awolowo University established in July 1982 an institute of Ecology and Environmental Studies as an autonomous multidisciplinary institute to tackle ecological problems of development.
The institute is thus concerned with the study of man and nature as a study of those ecological problems implied in the development of human societies.
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