Ecological footprint (EF) is an indicator that accounts for human demand in the environment compared with the sizes of the bio-productive land and sea areas. This research was carried out to determine the EF for environmental sustainability in Ilorin Metropolis. Empirical surveying, which involved systematic random sample technique, was used to select residential households in each community for this investigation. The EF indicators, which include food, energy and waste consumptions, were determined empirically. The bio-capacity (BC), ecological stress and deficit were determined, from the land used as environmental sustainable areas in Ilorin, using Google Earth Mapping. The results revealed that energy has the highest EF of 44%, followed by waste and food with the footprint of 25% and 5%, respectively. A deficit of 38% was obtained, and this requires eight times the BC to balance the EF of the population. This implies that people are consuming more of the energy and generating more wastes than they consumed food.

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尼日利亚夸拉州伊洛林都市区的生态足迹，以实现环境可持续发展

生态足迹（EF）是一个指标，该指标与生物生产性陆地和海洋区域的规模相比，说明了环境中的人类需求。进行这项研究是为了确定伊洛林都会区环境可持续性的EF。经验调查涉及系统随机抽样技术，用于选择每个社区的居民家庭进行此项调查。EF指标包括食物，能源和废物的消耗，是根据经验确定的。使用Google Earth Mapping，从伊洛林（Ilorin）用作环境可持续地区的土地上确定了生物承载力（BC），生态压力和赤字。结果表明，能源的EF最高，为44％，其次是垃圾和食品，分别为25％和5％。获得了38％的赤字，而这需要BC的八倍来平衡人口的EF。这意味着人们消耗的能量比消耗的食物更多，产生的废物也更多。