Effect of natural resources and energy consumption on ecological footprint in Africa
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This think about analyzes how Africa's biological impression is influenced by vitality utilization and the abuse of natural resources, emphasizing how these components contribute to environmental degradation all through the continent. In arrange to capture both short-term and long-term impacts, the examination employments a strong econometric strategy with the Autoregressive Disseminated Slack (ARDL) show and board information from a few African countries. Comes about appear that the most causes of Africa's developing environmental impression are unsustainable vitality utilization and normal asset extraction, particularly dependence on fossil powers. These activities compound natural disintegration, which appears up as a drop in biodiversity and eminent shifts in arrive utilize. In arrange to reduce these negative impacts, the think about emphasizes the critical require for productive vitality controls and maintainable asset administration methods. By altogether investigating the nexus between vitality utilization, asset misuse, and natural supportability, this research contributes important bits of knowledge to economic development discourse in Africa. It offers evidence-based proposals for policymakers to advance greener vitality choices and dependable asset utilize, eventually pointing to decrease Africa’s environmental impression and cultivate long-term biological flexibility.
Authors: Kir, Kalissa Fatoumata, Wang, Jianmin, Boukari, Manli, Conde, Sekou Mohamed
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7086772663
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