Environmental Benefits of Estate and Urban Green Architecture across Locations in Port Harcourt Conurbation, Nigeria
- October 23, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Environmental Science, IJRSI
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue X, October 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705
Ubani Princewill1*, Iyowuna Jonah2, Naabura Macwillian Kingdom3
1Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Ken Saro – Wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria
2Department of Surveying and Geomatics, Rivers State University Port Harcourt, Nigeria
3Department of Estate Management, Ken Saro – Wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria
*Corresponding Author
Abstract: – Port Harcourt metropolis is the only developing town in Rivers state Nigeria with quality agricultural soil and other natural endowment. The enriched environment for all systems of agricultural practices attract some urbanites in agricultural sector and the indigenes believed that their resource particularly the soil had been abandoned from agricultural uses and its environmental advantages owing to over concentration of industrial and commercial activities. This study was necessitated to actually verify the claim. Therefore, environmental benefits of urban agriculture and food crops visibility questionnaire were administered in different income locations of the fruitful soil region. The collected sample were analysed using principal component analysis method, standard deviation and Duncan multiple correlation coefficient. The result for determination of urban agriculture environmental advantages held that visibility of food (0.49) and improving air quality (0.50) were considered as the supreme environmental benefits of urban agriculture. However, tree product/medical herb (20%), urban sustainability (13%), agrarian development (12%), soil capacity/incubation (09%) and climate change resilience (10%) were the classified environmental benefits of urban agriculture. In respect to variation, the analysis detailed that the environmental values of urban agrarian for high and medium income communities are the same but differs for low income communities at (p<0.05).The increase of poor environmental quality recorded in different income communities or location of urban communities may be attributed to non-inclusiveness of agrarian practices in urban governance. It is our ultimate opinion that the governments should adopt the establishment and regular maintenance of crop farms across the urban communities to ensure uniformity, availability of open green belt and encouragement of environmental aesthetics for all the communities. So that the 5% per cent space allotted for agriculture in every individual proposed urban land space can serve as a buffer, wind control measure, enhancement of quality air, natural landscape element and as well as visibility of food crops.
Keywords: Environmental, architecture, benefit, metropolis, estate and nigeria
