Green spaces (GS) are vegetation areas in urban landscapes, including forests, parks, gardens, wetlands and street trees. Their loss has great consequences for the aesthetic, recreational, economic and human health value ...
Cassava is one of the world's leading staple root crops whose adoption for food security varies over space and time in the West African sub-region. Research on cassava has focused on production, processing, post-harvest ...
Oil exploitation in the Niger Delta has resulted in widespread hydrocarbon pollution. Despite vast research on bioremediation using organic amendments for restoring hydrocarbon contaminated land, the potential of decomposed ...
Unplanned urban growth is one of the major challenges in developing countries. The literature on
urban growth has focused more on horizontal growth, without a corresponding emphasis on
vertical growth. Even within the ...
There has been large scale migration of health professionals from Nigeria to other countries with estimated 40,000 emigrants between 1975 and 1984 and over 90,000 in 2000. However, the patterns of movement and the associated ...
Splash erosion leads to the remover of top soil particles and nutrients needed for plant growth. There are many factors that can affect splash erosion including slope, soil surface cover, soil properties and rainfall ...
In Nigeria, secondary forests of different types are increasing in area, and becoming increasingly important for species diversity conservation and soil fertility regeneration. Previous studies on the dynamics of soil and ...
Tropical Rainforest (RF) and forest reserves are commonly converted to Oil-Palm (OP) and Rubber Plantations (RP). Variations in soil properties have been studied under different land uses, but studies on the impact of ...
Maternal health seeking behaviour is influenced by availability and access to health-care facilities. Previous studies on maternal health-seeking behaviour have focused on the effects of the cost of services, accessibiity, ...
The factors responsible for the growing disaffection and public outcry against increasing urban land, housing and rental values in Nigeria have been a contentious issue in the literature. The dominant position identified ...
Few studies carried out on physiologic climatology (a study of average physio-thermal conditions of a place at a specific time) of the tropics emphasised variations in thermal conditions of tropical Africa. There is no ...
Liberalisation policy has influenced global air transport significantly. In Africa, the liberalisation of the air transport sector, through the Yamoussoukro agreement; was signed in 1988. The liberalisation process was ...
Household movement in cities has attracted research interest especially in developed countries. Interest in residential mobility has focused on housing affordability, increased externalities, dissatisfaction with present ...
Fuelwood, also known as firewood is unprocessed woody biomass and a major energy source in Nigeria. Research on fuelwood extraction has largely focused on its consequences for deforestation and climate change, while studies ...
The pattern of rainfall anomalies have been largely neglected in the literature on climatology in Nigeria in spite of their significance to agriculture. This study examined the pattern of rainfall anomalies in Nigeria with ...
The spatial distribution of Primary Health-Care (PHC) facilities in Nigeria does not meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) distance threshold bench mark. This has consequently affected accessibility and utilisation of ...
Rainstorm is one of the major hazards affecting urban areas in tropical region. Previous studies have largely characterised variations in rainstorm based on limited data from synoptic stations that are not evenly distributed ...
The substantial increase in the incidence rates of non-communicable diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is closely linked to the social and economic changes that accompany development. Most research on DM focused on ...