TY  - EJOU
AU  - 
T1  - Urban Population Growth and Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria
T2  - Journal of Empirical Studies

PY  - 2018
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
SN  - 2312-6248

AB  - It is believed that the increasing urban population has led to rapid forest decline and degradation of the environment. This paper examines the impact of urban population growth on environmental sustainability using Nigeria data from 1981-2017. The variables used are urban population growth, fossil fuel consumption, carbon emissions, food production index, arable land, and agricultural raw material exports with renewable energy consumption and forest reserves as explanatory variables. Autoregressive lag model was used to determine the impact of urban population on renewable energy consumption and forest reserves, which are proxies for sustainable environment. From the findings, urban population growth had significant impact on environmental sustainability while real gross domestic product does not have significant impact on renewable energy consumption and forestry. Findings also show that urban population growth increase renewable energy consumption but decrease forest reserves. A basic policy in this direction is effective curtailing in the rate of population growth and depletion of forest reserves. 
KW  - Urban population growth
KW  - Environmental sustainability
KW  - Fresh water supply
KW  - Arable land
KW  - Renewable energy
KW  - Greenhouse emission
KW  - Forest reserve.
DO  - 10.18488/journal.66.2018.51.12.19