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The increasing influx of people to mountain base environments has opened up the area to a myriad of problems that threaten the liveability of the residents and the sustainability of the environment. Yet, sufficient empirical investigations have not looked at the particular issues that threaten their liveability experience. Using the case of Idi-Ori-Shasha mountain, this study examined the condition of informal urbanization at the mountain-base and equally investigated residents’ living experiences. We conducted questionnaire survey with closed and open-ended questions to collect data from 65 out of 533 houses within a buffer of 250 m from the mountain and retrieved 50 completed household-head survey. The results revealed that majority of the residents were not satisfied living at the mountain-base because of the inadequate facilities that have contributed to their current living conditions. Also, mountain-base residents are liable to many liveability threats such as noise pollution, sleeplessness, building/wall cracks, destructive erosion, and water inaccessibility. The study recommends adequate infrastructural provision intervention in the area in order to upscale liveability dimensions and general residents’ living conditions. Conversely, similar studies could be conducted elsewhere for validation and comparison of findings.
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Babalola, T.O., Ahmed, A.A., Popoola, A.A. et al. Liveability experience of mountain-base residents: the case of Idi-Ori-Shasha Mountain, Ibadan, Nigeria. J. Mt. Sci. 19, 2693–2702 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-021-7222-4
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