IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

International Journal of Agriculture and Earth Science (IJAES )

E- ISSN 2489-0081
P- ISSN 2695-1894
VOL. 8 NO. 2 2022
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.56201/ijaes.v8.no2.2022.pg22.36

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Attitude of Peri-Urban Households towards Environmental Protection in Rivers State, Nigeria

Worlu, R.I., Isife, B.I. and Elenwa, C.O.

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Abstract

The study focused on the Attitude of peri-urban households towards environmental protection in Rivers State. Specifically, the study described the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, identified areas of environmental issues, identified the peri-urban households’ sources of information on environmental issues, ascertained the strategies adopted by peri- urban households for environmental protection, examined attitude of peri-urban households towards environmental protection strategies and identified the factors affecting the peri- urban household’s attitude towards environmental protection strategies in the study area. Multi-stage sampling was used to select a sample of 200 respondents. Data were collected with the use of questionnaire and analyzed using frequency, percentage and mean. The hypotheses were tested using Regression Analysis and t-test and results obtained were 6.60 and 0.33 which implied that there was significant relationship between peri-urban households’ sources of information on environmental issues in the study area, and there is no significant difference between peri-urban households’ attitude towards environmental protection in the three senatorial district, respectively. The result revealed that 61.51% of the respondents were male, 63.0% of them were married with mean age of 47 years old. Air, water, soil and other forms of pollution ( ? 3.57),increased threat on public health ( ? ), loss of biodiversity ( ? , ocean becoming more acidic ( ? ), rapid and steady depletion of atmospheric ozone layer ( ? , increase cases of deforestation ( ? etc were agreed by the respondents to be environmental degradation issues in the study area. The respondents agreed that their sources of information on environmental issues were mostly radio programmes ( ? , print media ( ? ), television programmes ( ? friends and neighbours ( ? The strategies adopted by the respondents for environmental protection include reuse of nylon and

keywords:

Attitude, Peri-urban households, Environmental Protection

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