Towards unlocking sustainable land consumption in sub-Saharan Africa: Analysing spatio-temporal variation of built-up land footprint and its determinants

A systematic understanding of the dynamics land consumption is extremely important for human well-being and especially vital ecological balance sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. Remarkable use/land cover changes due to climate change, urbanization, food demand have affected spatio-temporal built-up footprints (BLFs) in SSA. By using spatial econometric techniques, this study investigates evolution key drivers 28 SSA countries from 2000 2017. Our results show how an appropriate consideration role effects can shed new insights into convergence process footprints. Foremost, reveals significant evidence both absolute conditional ? BLFs over experimental period. Additionally, estimation indicates that biocapacity plays cutting as there was a faster with higher biocapacity. Moreover, outlined promotion globalization urbanization draws more pressure on environment makes it challenging reduce In addition, found inverted U-shaped nexus between per capita gross domestic product (GDP), supporting prediction environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis.