upervisor: Prof. Alan Lewis Abstract The global transition towards renewable energy has underscored the significance of ocean renewable energy (ORE) as a sustainable and viable alternative to fossil fuels. Liberia, with its extensive coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, possesses untapped potential for various ORE technologies, including tidal, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), saline grid conversion, wave, and wind energy. However, the absence of empirical research on the feas...
ABSTRACT Lagos State has grown from 300,000 and 500,000 in 1950 and 1991 to an unprecedented population of 15.7 million (Mabogunje, 2002). Already, it is projected to have a population of 25 million by 2015 which will make Lagos the third largest megacity after Tokyo and Bombay and a population of 29 million by 2020, with an annual growth rate of 8 %( UNCHS, 1996; George, 2010; LWC, 2011). This scenario presents enormous emerging challenges as well as opportunities that are numerous, diverse...