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Bayero University, Kano · Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Household perception of urban greenery is a vehicle for understanding socio-ecological dimensions of grassroots urban sustainability. It also helps in advancing public participation in urban green infrastructure initiatives. The present study measures public perception of urban households using questionnaire survey and observations of how people ma...

In recent years, a critical understanding of human–nature interactions has become central to studies exploring the dynamics of urban morphology and the sustainability of growing cities in the developing world. Accordingly, numerous scholars have employed the coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) framework as a tool for understanding how cities...

This book gives a reader an overview of tourism resources of Kano state and it includes notes on history, culture and economy of the ancient city of Kano and its rural surrounding areas

The world has become urban; cities increasingly shape our worldviews, relation to other species, and the large-scale, long-term decisions we make. Cities are nature, but they need to align better with other ecosystems to avoid accelerating climate change and loss of biodiversity. We need a science to guide urban development across the diverse reali...

This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conclude that urban ecology as a science can better contribute to positive futures by focusing on relationships, rather than prioritizing urban structures. Insights from other relational...

This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology for and with the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecolo...

This paper examines various studies on weather and climate extreme events (WCEE) to identify thematic trends and research gaps and suggest directions for further studies. The review identifies 14 subthemes and 23 research focuses, that address impacts and issues in the pre-, during-, and post-disaster phases. Using a matrix of WCEE dimensionality a...

Despite three decades of policies discouraging biomass-based cooking in Africa, demand for fuelwood continues to rise. Several studies focus on household energy use, but few consider the role of commercial premises such as bakeries in deforestation, despite growing demand for bread. This study examines bread production by commercial bakeries in for...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Abstract Accelerating industrialization is crucial for African countries to achieve the objectives outlined in...

Nigeria is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by halving its emissions by 2050. It has adopted nature-based solutions to implement its decarbonisation agenda. Nevertheless, as a highly urbanised country, the roles of Nigerian cities, where most emissions are concentrated, have not been clearly outlined. Besides, the one-size-fits-all strategy...

Few studies have effectively analysed the spatial patterns of urban smellscapes, public perception, exposure risks, or design an inclusive decision-support system. The current study coupled multiple methods to measure, map, and compare notable smell emitting spots, associated air quality indices, and public perception in Kano, Nigeria. It has revea...

The sustainable development goal (SDG) 11 emphasizes the role of public open space (POS) in creating inclusive and liveable cities. The present study coupled concepts of right to the city, inclusion, and negotiation to illustrate how inner-city children and adults establish a harmonized consumption of a district POS. The study examines how differen...

This chapter examines the scientific understanding of how climate change impacts land degradation, and vice versa, with a focus on non-drylands. Land degradation of drylands is covered in Chapter 3. After providing definitions and the context (Section 4.1) we proceed with a theoretical explanation of the different processes of land degradation and...

This report has been developed by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) and UN-Habitat based on the outcomes of 2021 Innovate4Cities Conference co-sponsored by UN-Habitat, GCoM and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is intended to inform research, policy and public discussions on the global research and action age...

The relationship between human and the Built environments in its complex nature evolved series of consequences as loss of heritage properties through decay, natural hazard, human factors in the modern society. Hence, this study analyzed the heritage tourism potentials of Dala Hill, Kano Metropolis, Nigeria. Both qualitative and quantitative data wa...

This best practice training manual was produced as part of an international collaboration between Bayero University Kano (BUK), Nigeria, and Universities of Leeds and York, UK. The collaboration, funded by the UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund, aims to develop innovative training to support cost-effective irrigation-free indigenous tree restora...

Appui à l'Innovation et à la Recherche sur l'Adaptation au Changement Climatique" (AIRACC) au Nigéria. "Research and Innovation in Adapting to Climate Change" in Nigeria a French Embassy supported research project on Waste management and climate change adaptation in Lagos (30,000 Euros) - 2020-2021. Site: Lagos Mainland.

Violent windstorms are becoming more prevalent in African inland towns and cities. Yet, very few studies have reported on their increasing occurrences in sub-Saharan Africa's low-density and medium-sized cities and towns. This study uses Enhanced Fujita’s F-scale matrix to estimate the intensity and rank the damage severity of a windstorm on 16th J...

This paper takes a critical look at the 20-hectares research/demonstration farm at Bayero University Kano’s Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA) in Kano, Nigeria. The paper examines how knowledge-based mode farm driven by scientific, ethical, and technological innovations contributes to ensuring some level of food security during the COVID-19 pande...

Going by the current trends of urbanisation in Africa, it becomes necessary to seek for innovative ideas to improve ecology, human health, and well-being. This study explores the potentials of innovation labs as vehicles for collective ideation, team learning, and incubation of sustainable solutions. MR CITY Lab is a design-thinking initiative that...

This chapter reports on efforts to explore possibilities and opportunities of adapting ZFarming as a vehicle for combating hunger, malnutrition and climate change impacts. The focus of the study is Kano city which is Nigeria’ second largest urban agglomeration. The research questions that drive this study are as follows: can ZFarming support urban...

The average household access to electricity in Nigeria is estimated at four hours per day. This paradoxical energy crisis in a top oil and gas exporting country makes an interesting case for local and global players in the sustainable energy agenda. The current study showcases experiences of households that installed and use solar photovoltaic (PV)...

The domains of urban planning and urban finance will have particularly crucial roles to play in responding to climate change and delivering sustainable development. However, as evidenced above, business-as-usual approaches are failing in most regions of the world. There is an urgent need for new strategies and mechanisms to create thriving cities t...

We, the conference Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and Organizing Committee (OC), are proud to present this Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science. It aims to inspire climate change research and collaborative scientific efforts resulting in reference reports and peer-reviewed publications that will inform the IPCC’s six...

Land restoration and rehabilitation in the urban context can help countries attain SDG 11 targets by restoring important ecosystem services in the urban, as well as peri-urban, and rural areas that support urban areas with food, water, energy and raw materials for dwellings and infrastructure. These ecosystem services support a more resilient urban...

This paper sets the scene to explain how Nigeria is locked into fuel wood consumption, the challenges and opportunities.

The study of urban tree distribution and conservation continues to be an important focus of enquiry for academics and policymakers alike, particularly in the context of urban sustainability in dryland areas. A number of studies, for example, have deployed spatially explicit models to investigate patterns of tree distribution of over time. However,...

The Saudi Vision 2030 is designed to support fast tracking of the transformation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). One critical criteria for measuring the success of this vision is the extent of public engagement in the conceptualization, design, and implementation of the Vision 2030. This working paper explores the potentials of serious games-...

Pilgrimage to Mecca is an obligation for Muslims with ability to do so. Muslims also look at the Qibla (direction to Mecca) for their daily prayers (salat). The influence of Mecca is far and wide to the extent that many buildings in Muslim cities and towns are designed to align with the Qibla. The number of Muslims going to hajj has increased signi...

African populations share a close relationship with, and are highly dependent on, biodiversity and ecosystem services. A major challenge lies in managing and governing this human-environment relationship for Africa’s transformation towards sustainability and resilience (high agreement, robust evidence). A wide variety of governance options exist in...

Cities have the potential to be major catalysts of change in the implementation of recent international agreements such as the Paris Agreement, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the New Urban Agenda and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Actions to address climate change through adaptation and mitigation at the city level will...

Policymakers, judicial officers, traditional rulers, community leaders and security agencies need deep understanding of causes and consequences of conflicts. Many socio-economic development projects unfolding in the country directly affect land and by implication reducing its accessibility and availability for different users. Thus, in many instanc...

The Boko Haram insurgency has engulfed many parts of Northern Nigeria since 2010. About two million people have fled into urban areas around crisis zones. However, barely 10 per cent of these internally displaced persons (IDPs) are sheltered in formal humanitarian camps. The vast majority live on their own, facing difficulties in accessing food, ed...

Xuemei Bai and colleagues call for long-term, cross-disciplinary studies to reduce carbon emissions and urban risks from global warming.

Meeting the ambitions of the Paris Agreement will require rapid and massive decarbonization of cities, as well as adaptation. Capacity and requirement differs across cities, with challenges and opportunities for transformational action in both the Global North and South.

Well-intended climate actions are confounding each other. Cities must take a strategic and integrated approach to lock into a climate-resilient and low-emission future.

The Sustainable Development Goals provide a window of opportunity for creating multidimensional operational approaches for climate change adaptation in cities.

Sahel is one of the major African drylands whose experience of recurring droughts exacerbates its vulnerability to climate change. Its population is estimated to rise to over 200 million by 2050. This region has attracted attention of the global scientific communities, and for which interventions from scientists, intergovernmental institutions, and...

It is crucial for municipalities in African countries and beyond to tap into millennials to achieve the SDGs. Millennials have the capacity and energy to engage their peers, younger and older generations who look up to their innovative energies, aspirations and commitment to rebooting environmental wellbeing and welfare.

The Boko Haram insurgency has engulfed many parts of Northern Nigeria since 2010. About two million people have fled into urban areas around crisis zones. However, barely ten per cent of these internally displaced people (IDPs) are sheltered in formal humanitarian camps. The vast majority live on their own, facing difficulties in accessing food, ed...

In June 2015, the European Development Days-the Europe's biggest development cooperation forum – observed that sustainable urbanisation is at the core of social and economic development in the global south. For more than half of a century, European development agencies have been intervening in various sectors of urban development in the south. Inde...

The unprecedented movement of African illegal migrants into Europe has aggravated in recent years. Unfortunately, most of the measures being put in place to curve this challenge are hardly effective. As far as Africa-Europe migration is concerned, researchers, policymakers, and international organisations often pay more attention to securitisation,...

The notion of ‘transformations towards sustainability’ takes an increasingly central position in global sustainability research and policy discourse in recent years. Governance and politics are central to understanding and analysing transformations towards sustainability. However, despite receiving growing attention in recent years, the governance...

The ancient city of Mecca is inarguably the spiritual capital of all Muslims. Indeed, going to Mecca is compulsory for all able Muslims. All Muslims must look at the Qibla (direction to Mecca) for daily prayers. Many buildings in Arab and Muslim cities are designed to align with the Qibla. The concept of Harim that regulates land use and land devel...

Land resettlement schemes are commonly used in the developing countries to leverage poor people's access to land for shelter, food production, or boosting rural development. Unfortunately, not many resettlement schemes have effectively solved the problems they were designed to tackle. For researchers and policymakers in particular, part of the prob...

This chapter takes a critical look at the multiple dimensions of water crises in drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa.It arguesthat urban water crises cannot be explained in isolation ofrural areas many of which have competing water needs and are the locationsfor dams and other critical urban water infrastructure. It uses an example of Kano region – a hy...

The current study underscores the importance of environmental ethics as a vehicle for engaging society, businesses, and policy-makers towards mainstreaming transformation to sustainability. This reflects an innovative trend towards using narratives in social and management sciences, which needs to be replicated by other disciplines, organisations,...

This essay takes a critical look at the pro-conservation groups' anti-oil palm plantations narratives. These groups cultivate persuasive narratives that present oil palm plantations as the ultimate bad guys responsible for deforestation in Malaysia. Could this be true? In answering this question, this essay employs an empirical approach to trace th...

Introduction: As unprecedented urbanization continues to unfold; cities increasingly depend on the expanding internet of things (IoT). Cyber‑attacks and insecurity are the emerging challenges that remain least investigated. Methods: To address this challenge, an online survey was conducted to gain insights from experts resident in 32 cities from Eu...

This chapter takes a critical look at the multiple dimensions of water crises in drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that urban water crises cannot be explained in isolation of rural areas many of which have competing water needs and are the locations for dams and other critical urban water infrastructure. It uses an example of Kano region –...

This paper explores how the Ramsar Convention, a key multilateral environmental agreement for the world's wetlands,influences the allocation and use of ecosystem goods and services.Focusing on the world's second largest uninhabited mangrove island,Pulau Kukup,this study illustrates the social and ecological risks and opportunities surrounding prote...

As unprecedented urbanization continues to unfold; cities increasingly depend on the expanding Internet of Things (IoT). Cyber attacks and insecurity are the emerging challenges that remain least investigated. To address this, an online survey was conducted to gain insights from experts resident in 32 cities from Europe, North and South America, Af...

For those who live and work in emerging economies, the social and ecological effects of urban sprawl and landscape fragmentation on agricultural and ecological landscapes are readily apparent. Malaysia provides an example of this phenomenon. Like many countries in Asia, Malaysia has undergone rapid urbanization, increasing from 26.5% in 1957, the y...

The study applied complexity theory, DPSIR model, and the Earth System Governance paradigm to prop its theoretical and methodological underpinnings. Thus, the paper identified 29 factors (natural, institutional, technological, policy and demographic) that underscore dynamics of the Gulf desalination industry. The recommendations made for sustainabl...

Scientific projections have revealed that rapid and capital driven low-density urbanisation grossly undermines local and global environmental sustainability, with these effects set to become even more devastating in the near future. Landscape’s socio-ecological functions and services are bound to be affected by this form of rapid urban-industrial g...

The hyper-arid climate of the Arabian Gulf makes it an excessively water-deficient region. Ironically, the Gulf States count among the few places with the highest per capita water consumption and low tariff. Since a few decades ago, seawater desalination has been the most reliable source of portable water in the Gulf. Recently, many critical schola...

Rapid urbanization undermines landscape sustainability in many developing countries.Spatially explicit models have dominated explanations on spatial and temporal patterns of urban land use change. However, as urbanization exerts pressure on landscapes through fragmentation and sprawl; researchers are challenged to explain sustainability implication...

Introduction: Special economic zones (SEZs) emerge as new forces driving Asian economic transformation and triggering rapid landscape fragmentation. It is imperative to map out the present and future spatial patterns of SEZs in order to understand how they undermine sustainability. Drawing from the experience of Iskandar Malaysia, one of the most s...

Economy has a critical role to play as a vehicle for development and also as a key determinant of urban sustainability. Rapidly advancing economies and highly urbanised countries such as the United Arab Emirates provide a good example of potentials of green economy in the context of micro and economics of urban sustainability. Unfortunately, the UA...

The analytical tools of the earth system governance - 5As - Architecture, Agency, Accountability, Access and Allocation, and Adaptiveness are used to explain the mining sector based on example of the situation in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The enormous pressure on the Earth system and gross inequity in sharing resources require human centred remedial actions. This study explores potentials of human behavioural change in addressing prevailing global ecological crises and resource governance challenges. The study assumes that humans can learn some basic principles from wildlife experie...

For many years, several developing countries have experimented with several models to answer their land questions. Often times, governments in the Global South introduced centralized tenure systems that fail to integrate indigenous land governance institutions. Indigenous institutions are based on traditional regulatory practices including custodia...

According to the UN statistics, by the year 2035 youths would constitute 74.2% of the Saudi population. Incidentally, the International Labour Organisation's (2013) projections rank the Kingdom among countries with the highest rates of youth unemployment in the world. Facing the challenge of youth bulge, youth unemployment, urbanisation, and enviro...

Urban biodiversity management in most African countries is at a peripheral stage. At the same time, African urban areas substantially remain poorly planned and intensively growing. This study explores the socio-ecological system as an alternative approach to explore African indigenous urban biodiversity management. For this purpose, we mixed conven...

Research has shown that in the recent years disaster incidents are increasing rapidly all over the world. Natural disasters-geologic, climatic and biological hazards (such as earthquake, landslides, volcanic eruptions, windstorms, floods, viral epidemics etc) or anthropogenic disasters (such as industrial hazard contaminations, fire disasters, terr...

From 1980 to 2000, total recorded crimes increased from 2300 to 3000 crimes for every 100,000 people. Cities are the common targets for acts of terrorism and other crimes that create disasters-killings, arson, injuries etc. As crime incidents increase and change form, the law enforcement agents continuously change their strategies to match attacker...

The global climate change literature is awash with instances of population displacement incidents from different parts of the world. Asia in particular presents many examples of worse flooding scenarios. However, there are lighter scenarios that give insights into human responses, adaptation and mitigation strategies in countries like Malaysia whos...

The Asian middle-income economies initiate a number of development programmes in order to fast tract their visions for entry into high-income economies. Special economic cities are examples of such platforms for rapid economic and social development in many parts of Asia. While there are conceptual, operational and strategic similarities between As...

The historic landscapes and events in Kano city are amply reported in classical and contemporary academic literature. As evidence of their significance and global recognition, 'Ancient Kano City Walls and Associated Sites' have been on the UNESCO world heritage tentative lists since 2007. Kano has also recently joined group of nine great cities tha...

The Iskandar Malaysia Low Carbon Society is one of the most ambitious urban decarbonising projects in Southeast Asia. It is designed for Malaysia's emerging global sustainable metropolis -Iskandar Malaysia. The project blueprint covers three focal areas: Green Community, Green Economy and Green Environment which are fused into various application a...

ABSTRACT This paper examines the attribute of concrete culture which leads to place making process of kayik. As one of traditions open public places which are still used by rural people in Pagar Alam District in South Sumatra kayik offers multifunctional water based necessities. Physical examination by direct observation on 24 units of kayik at kam...

Half of humans live in urban areas as urbanization becomes one of the 21 st century top challenges. Most of physical urban disarrays stem from unsustainable urban land use systems. Sundry planning concepts, policies, and models fail to generate optimum solutions to the threats. Now,the risks spill and multiply almost unabatedly. This paper explores...

This review explores landscape science in the proposed age of the Anthropocene and Fourth Paradigm. Both the Anthropocene and the Fourth Paradigm put landscape science to task, due to the severity of landscape challenges. The article aims to link the concepts of the Anthropocene, the Fourth Paradigm and landscape sustainability in the 21st century....

•Loss of biodiversity and landscape change due to palmisation induce ecological changes and long term sustainability Malaysian globalising cities. •The state of both landscape and biodiversity are also important determinants of vulnerability of Malaysian economic city regions. •It is also clear that biodiversity loss leads to disruption of ecosyste...