Survey of Population Growth on Urban Marshlands and Environment of Southern Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue IV, April 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705

Survey of Population Growth on Urban Marshlands and Environment of Southern Nigeria

Ubani Princewill^1*, Naabura Macwilliam Kingdom², Bumaa Felix Neeka^3
1Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Kenule Beeson Saro – wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria
²Department of Estate Management, Kenule Saro – Wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria
³Department of Architecture, Kenule Beeson Saro – Wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria
*Corresponding Author

Abstract:- Now the strategies and challenges of land use development in swampy land is one of the most frequent contemporary issues generated by population pressure in this era. The article consequently surveyed population growth on urban marshlands and environment of south- south Nigeria. The questionnaire approach was active for acquisition of relevant information from the occupants while regression, mathematical percentage and standard deviation held the research analysis. The result demonstrated that sprawling or urbanization (t =13.354, P=0.001 <0.05), and stood as the most persuasive and deriving mechanism that encourage desertification of marshlands in significant urban centre of south -south Nigeria. Industrialization (t = 11.233, P =0.00<0.05), population (t =7.895, P =0.001), housing development (t = 7.737, P = .001), urban food security (t =3.421, P =.003) and demand for fossil fuel (t =2.976, p = 000.) are the significant causes of built-up preserved swamplands areas of major cities in south-south Nigeria. The suggestion detailed that successive government must ensure that at least, all local government administrative headquarters are upgraded to township status via a legislative tool which must direct a measure to relocate most of the urban land activities that attract high population to government headquarters upgraded to township status.

I. INTRODUCTION

In swampland environments, studies on population pressure have been based on the analysis of housing demand, urban development, land reclamation and speedy sprawl, moreover socio-environmental implications of built-up swamplands (SEIBS) studies have received much attention in developing country like Nigeria going by both practice and research. However, the sources, challenges and remedies of swampy land development by extension generate opinions among the scholars. According to Hoius (1990), the Pressures to swampland from agricultural intensification, pollution, engineering schemes and urban development are difficult as societies and institutions that served as damaging mechanism of wetlands are compound systems, a thoughtful of hydrology and ecology is not sufficient for a wetland administrator. He added that wetland destruction is always abetted by mis-perceptions, public subsidy, international funds, local-scale planning, sectorial approaches, and narrow disciplinary measures.

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