PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.1/ 2025

Authors :

Muhammad MUBBIN 1,2,4,5* , Palamuleni LOBINA 1 , Adam ELHADI 2 , Tabukeli Musigi RUHIIGA 3 , Qaddus Rabbani FEHMIDA 2

1 School of Geo and Spatial Sciences, North West University, Mmabatho, South Africa

2 School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa

 3 Department of Humanities Education, Faculty of Education, Kabale University , Kabale, Uganda

 4 Department of Social Sciences, Bright Future International School Doha, Doha, Qatar

 5 Department of Geography, Government Graduate College, Asghar Mall, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

E-mail : * Corresponding author: muhammad.mubbin@wits.ac.za

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025191002

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