The research is on advancing environmental health and sustainability through public awareness, effective waste management, and environmental monitoring strategies in Calabar Education Zone.Cross River State, Nigeria. To direst this study, two research hypotheses were formulated in line with the specific objectives of the study. The correlation research design was adopted. The population of this study includes all the 312,149 household heads in the Calabar educational zone (southern senatorial District) of Cross River State. The multi stage sampling technique is applied where the population is made of heterogeneous groups and provides a sample of ,872 household heads. Data were collected using a researcher-developed instrument titled “Environmental Health and Sustainability Via Public Awareness, Effective Waste Management, and Environmental Monitoring Questionnaire (EHSVPAEWMEMQ),” which yielded a reliability coefficient mean of .88-.92 using the Cronbach Alpha approach. Simple linear regression was employed for data analysis. the results revealed that public awareness, effective waste management, and environmental monitoring strategies significantly predict environmental hazards control in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State. The researcher therefore concluded that effective public awareness, waste management as well as environmental monitoring strategies could go along way in advancing environmental health in the research area. Based on these findings, it was recommended, among others, that there should be consistent environmental monitoring strategies to eradicate environmental hazard in the area, there should be legislature for defaulters against environmental policies and victims should be penalised through a proficient law court
Ugbe Edward (Sun,) studied this question.