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Title:Perception of urban environmental problems: a pilot study of the city of Ibadan, Nigeria
Author:Egunjobi, LayiISNI
Year:1989
Periodical:African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108)
Volume:4
Issue:1-2
Period:January-May
Pages:59-67
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Nigeria
West Africa
Subjects:popular participation
environment
urban environment
Urbanization and Migration
Environment, Ecology
pollution
Urban policy
Ibadan (Nigeria)
Abstract:This study is based on the premise that for effective public participation in decisionmaking regarding urban environmental problems, there is a need to gain insight into how the urban dwellers see the problems and what they think of them. The study, therefore, aims at assessing the level of perception of the people of Ibadan City (Nigeria) with regard to various urban problems. People were questioned about their general perception of urban environmental problems, as well as about their opinion on a number of specific urban environmental problems, namely floods, fire hazards, air and noise pollution, and liquid and solid wastes. Emerging from the study is a discernible picture of an urban citizenry with a keen awareness of the problems of their environment. A substantial proportion of the 1,210 sample population demonstrated a high degree of dissatisfaction with their immediate environment, especially with regard to particular components of it, and went further to identify what they perceived were the causes of the problem. Such public interest as evinced by the study has potentials, if properly harnessed, for improving decisionmaking, planning and management with respect to urban environmental problems. Ref.
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