1 School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology.
2 School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Science and Technology.
3 School of Mines, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116.
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2025, 16(03), 603–616
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2025.16.3.2603
Received on 05 August 2025; revised on 13 September 2025; accepted on 15 September 2025
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.
Natural Resources; Energy Consumption; Ecological Footprint; Sustainable Development
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Kalissa Fatoumata Kir, Jianmin Wang, Manli Boukari and Sekou Mohamed Conde. Effect of natural resources and energy consumption on ecological footprint in Africa. International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2025, 16(03), 603–616. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/ijsra.2025.16.3.2603.
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