Urban growth, domestic fuel and sustainable forestry in Kano, Nigeria
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01.09.10-01.09.13
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Centre for Development Studies
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Overall population growth, increased urbanisation, expanding energy demands and intensified natural resource use in the region around Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city, have combined to stimulate recent changes in the production, management and consumption of woody vegetation and crop residue for woodfuel.
This project will explore how these changes have shaped energy and natural resource practices over the last 25 years by updating seminal research on woodfuel and related livelihood activity undertaken by two of the partners in the 1980s. This will involve assessing the direct relevance of new findings for energy, landscape and regional development policy/practice; and evaluating the implications for ongoing debates around sustainable development, attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and global climate change.
A second, and equally important, objective of the project will involve strengthening existing, and establishing new, relationships between all partners, in addition to building capacity in the Geography Department at Bayero University Kano by engaging staff and students in an academic collaboration with valuable policy implications for sustainable urban planning, natural resource management and household energy decision-making.
Anticipated outcomes include improved understanding of the social relations and institutions mediating access to tree/shrub/woodfuel resources, and the proactive contribution of academic/applied research to policy processes and livelihood intervention.
