Ecological footprint of energy and waste generation for environmental sustainability in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria

A new conceptual framework for sustainable development

Edet Otto and Henry Sawyerr

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 2022, vol. 17, 637-644

Abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the Ecological Footprint of Energy and Waste generation in Ijebu Ode, and the study adopted descriptive cross-sectional design and data were collected from 400 systemically sampled households through structured questionnaires and analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The findings revealed that water has the highest ecological footprint (EF) of 86.5%, followed by energy with 6.7%, while EF of food and waste had footprint of 4.8% and 1.9%, respectively, and with an average EF of 0.3gha/capita, it will require 0.2 Earths, should everyone in the world were to consume like Ijebu Ode.

Keywords: Ijebu Ode; sustainability; ecological footprint; consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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