Evaluation of Ecological Footprint on Food Consumption in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Mary, Joseph
نام ساير پديدآوران
Sawyer, Henry O.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Kwara State University (Nigeria)
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2021
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
122 p.
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جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
M.Sc.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Kwara State University (Nigeria)
امتياز متن
2021
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Ecological footprint (EF) is an indicator that accounts for human demand in the environment compared with the sizes of the bio productive land and sea areas. However, humanity is moving beyond its consumption limits and is living at the expense of future generation. This research addressed the ecological footprint of food consumption in Ilorin metropolis. Empirical surveying was carried out to determine the footprint on food consumption; systematic random sample technique was used to select residential households in each community to answer the questionnaire. This involves selecting household at interval of ten houses in each location. This was continued until the desired sample size was reached. The footprint was analyzed using the footprint formula for each component and statistical package for social science which reveals that energy had the highest footprint of 44% (0.194) followed by water and housing with the footprint of 25% each (0.108 and 0.107 respectively), food had a footprint of 5% (0.024) while the least was housing with the footprint of 1% (0.0035). This could be probably because people consume more of energy than water, also as result of people generating more waste than consuming food. The rapid development of technologies over the recent decades, economic growth and excessive consumption has created a threat to regeneration of natural resources. The current level of human consumption already exceeds the Earth's ecological potential, i.e., the ecological footprint of Ilorin exceeds natural resources' capacity for regeneration by 8 times.
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Environmental health
اصطلاح موضوعی
Environmental science
اصطلاح موضوعی
Land use planning
اصطلاح موضوعی
Natural resource management
اصطلاح موضوعی
Sub Saharan Africa studies
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )