Despite the considerable attention given to the environmental implications of urbanization,
evidence on the role of urbanization in the ongoing biodiversity loss lacks from an African …

Urbanization is an extreme human activity and is expanding worldwide, consequently
increasing the attention of scientists across research areas of urban ecology. Recent studies …

Decreasing biocapacity, accompanied by increasing ecological footprint (EF) and
urbanization, is the core environmental challenge that the G7 countries have to contend …

South Africa is the largest emitter of CO2 and arguably the most developed and urbanised
country in Africa. The country currently harbours an ecological deficit territory which could be …

The ASEAN-4 countries namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are
experiencing increasing ecological footprints and shrinking biocapacity due to high …

Environmental or 'ecological'footprints have been widely used in recent years as partial
indicators of sustainability; specifically of resource consumption and waste absorption …

Abstract By 2030, an additional 1.2 billion people are forecast in urban areas globally. We
review the scientific literature (n= 922 studies) to assess direct and indirect impacts of urban …

The nexus of population dynamics and environmental degradation has been discussed
widely in the extant literature. Most related studies have utilized carbon emission as a proxy …

Cities—especially those with substantial poor populations—will face increasingly severe
challenges in tackling the impacts of global environmental change (GEC). As economic …

International trade and urbanization are increasing at an unprecedented rate in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA). The region has also witnessed a fair share of economic growth, with …