Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES)

Resilience is often seen as a good thing. If an ecosystem or human society is resilient, it will be able to withstand the disruptions it faces. For a system to maintain a particular state, it must not be subjected to disturbances that exceed its ability to recover from that state. So resilience, like carrying capacity, is closely linked to sustainability. This is why it efforts to improve resilience from groups like the Resilience Alliance. They want our human-environment system to be preserved. City growth and sustainability depending on the stability of the urban indexes such as new development attracted by the people to economic prosperity, proximity as well as the political stability in the area. Keffi is being growing base on the urban growth indexes stated. Sampling based on the indexing of the major factors of sustainability was conducted. About 95% of the inhabitant in the study area agreed upon educational expansion is responsible for urban sprawl as well as the city resilience 80% on proximity index, 70% on economic stability, 60% social resilience and 45 % on political stability of the inhabitant.