Impact of Urbanisation on the Sustainability of Ikot Ekpene Urban Environment of Akwa Ibom State

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the impact of urbanization on the sustainability of Ikot Ekpene urban environment. It was a survey research. Three research questions were raised and answered, and two research hypotheses were formulated and tested using the results of data analysis obtained. The instrument used in collecting data for the study was a validated researcher-made questionnaire, tagged; Urbanization Impact Assessment Questionnaire (UIAQ), with a reliability index 0.68. Two hundred and fifty respondents drawn randomly from Ikot Ekpene urban population was used as representative sample. The results of data analyses using weighted mean and chi-square (x2) government’s intervention programmes aimed at ensuring sustainability of the environment is quite unsatisfactory on Ikot Ekpene urban for now. however, the results indicated low level of environmental literacy among the citizens. Hence it was recommended among others that the governments, at both the state and local government levels respectively should improve upon their environmental awareness programmes, in view of the facilitative effect of environmental education on environmental literacy of the people.