Population dynamics and infrastructure: meeting the millennium development goals in Ondo State, Nigeria

Adebimpe, Allen Abimbola

doi:10.11564/27-2-443

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“…The set of Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations, 2000 highlighted the emerging need for alleviating extreme poverty and making cities more inclusive and sustainable. These notions started to influence urban poverty policy, which adopted these goals as their baselines (Satterthwaite, 2003a;Ebrahim, 2008;Stein and Horn, 2012;Adebimpe, 2013;Jha and Tripathi, 2015). Studies focusing on extreme living conditions, specifically in malnutrition, have identified that urban poverty has already had a significant impact in developing countries, and this trend is forecasets to continue (Haddad et al, 1999;Kimani-Murage, 2015;Pryer, 2017).…”

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Five decades of research on urban poverty: Main research communities, core knowledge producers, and emerging thematic areas

Panori

Mora

Reid

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Urban poverty represents one of the greatest and most urgent challenges that modern society is facing. The criticality of this global issue is represented by a rapidly growing body of academic literature which aims to explain the dynamics of urban poverty and promote effective and enduring solutions. However, despite many years of research, no studies have been conducted yet which reveal and analyze the overall intellectual structure of the urban poverty research field. In light of this gap, a bibliometric study was undertaken of 52 years of scientific literature on urban poverty (1965-2017). The bibliometric study combines author citation analysis and text-mining techniques to map the main research communities and core knowledge producers which are shaping the urban poverty research field and to identify the thematic areas that these communities are focusing attention on. The results of this investigation reveal a significant growth in the volume of academic literature produced post-1990, which is mainly driven by the collaborative efforts of five research communities, each of whom are seen to focus attention on a specific thematic area: (A) Policy-oriented research; (B) Urban poverty concentration; (C) The rise of poverty in Chinese cities; (D) Youth-behavioral and mental-health aspects of urban poverty; and (E) Urban poverty and health in the Sub-Saharan and Asian slum areas. The practical relevance and scientific contribution of this study is evidenced in its capacity to assist those actors working to alleviate urban poverty, in particular research communities, governmental and intergovernmental institutions, and funding bodies. In addition to help them grasp the overall intellectual structure of the urban poverty research field, the insight offered by this study is instrumental in supporting the articulation of a global, action-oriented agenda for future interdisciplinary research on urban poverty.

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Section: Community A: Policy-oriented Researchmentioning

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Five decades of research on urban poverty: Main research communities, core knowledge producers, and emerging thematic areas

Panori

Mora

Reid

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Seventy‐nine percent (79%) of the total traditional energy (fuelwood, cow dung, biomass etc.) consumed in developing countries is fuelwood and between 60% and 69% of this is in sub‐Saharan Africa (Adebimpe ). About 70% of the energy consumed in India is met by fuelwood collected from forests and marginal lands.…”

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Bioenergy from agroforestry can lead to improved food security, climate change, soil quality, and rural development

Sharma

Bohra²,

Pragya³

et al. 2016

Food and Energy Security

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Well-designed bioenergy systems can contribute to several objectives, such as mitigating climate change, increasing energy access, and alleviating rural poverty. With adequate technical assistance and land management, farm yields and income can be increased, food security strengthened, carbon sequestration improved, and pressure for land clearing reduced. There are, nonetheless, risks involved on bioenergy production and several initiatives worldwide have failed to achieve proposed positive outcomes. Overreliance on monoculture plantations, negative land-use change impacts, and use of cereal crops as feedstocks are among the main causes. Agroforestry systems and practices can address most of these risks and thus play an important role in sustainable production of several bioenergy outputs, including efficient solid biomass, biogas, liquid biofuels, and dendro power. This article assesses the potential of such integrated approaches to provide multiple benefits, including the coproduction of food, animal feed, and organic fertilizers, while respecting economic, social, and environmental sustainability indicators. Building on experiences from sub-Saharan Africa, developing Asia, and Latin America, promising perennial species, production models, and value chains are analyzed. Finally, key challenges and potential solutions for larger scale adoption of integrated food-energy approaches are also identified and discussed. 166

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“…Many reports have indicated that Nigeria, like most developing countries are not prepared for the challenge of extreme climate and climate change, especially because of poor technology and poor resource allocation [30] [32] [52] in a study of the assessment of the millennium development goal scores of Ondo State (in the southwest Nigeria) indicated that most states in Nigeria will poorly perform in the areas of sanitation, water supply and health. Given the results of the peoples' perceptions on thermal climate in Nigeria, it can be generally deduced that poor climate education and sensibility, poor technology (for cost effective, cheap and energy (solar or alternate) saving devices), unequal distribution of financial wealth, poor social welfare schemes (and where they exist, some of the programmes are poorly implemented and severely infested by corrupt or discriminatory practices) are the bane of social infrastructure in Nigeria.…”

Section: Responses Of Nigerians To Thermal Climatementioning

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A Perspective of the Diurnal Aspect of Thermal Comfort in Nigeria

Eludoyin¹

2014

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It also examines the responses from 3600 sample population from tertiary institutions across Nigeria. Results indicated thermal stress in Nigeria, and showed that both heat and cold stress varied temporally and spatially (1200 -1500 Local Standard Time, LST as the most thermally uncomfortable period of the day, while before 0900 and around 2100 LST were more comfortable). The study showed that judgment on climate issues were often beclouded by religious or ignorant sentiments. Efficient coping strategies for thermal stress are generally lacking, being limited by poor education, financial capacity and inadequate government commitment to cater for the health effects of extreme climate conditions. The study concluded that Nigeria, which exemplifies many developing countries, is not yet prepared for the effect of future climate change. The study recommends climate education, improves health schemes for climate-related morbidity and improves greening of the urban environment.

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Population dynamics and infrastructure: meeting the millennium development goals in Ondo State, Nigeria

Abstract: Population has become an important research issue because its consideration has significant impli

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Five decades of research on urban poverty: Main research communities, core knowledge producers, and emerging thematic areas

Five decades of research on urban poverty: Main research communities, core knowledge producers, and emerging thematic areas

Bioenergy from agroforestry can lead to improved food security, climate change, soil quality, and rural development

A Perspective of the Diurnal Aspect of Thermal Comfort in Nigeria

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