Knowledge and perception of senior civil servants on the environmental and social service functions of urban forestry
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This study was conducted to assess the Knowledge and Perception of Senior Civil Servants on Social and Environmental Services of Trees in Federal and Oyo State Secretariats. Two hundred copies of questionnaire were administered. One hundred each for Federal Secretariat staff and the State Secretariat staff. In all, 187 copies were retrieved. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for the study and data collected were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Chi-square (X2). The results showed that the senior civil servants are well educated with over 40% having B.Sc at the federal and state secretariats in general, ND has 20.9%, HND (19.3%), BSc (43.9%) and MSc (16%). and the field of study of the majority is Social sciences followed by sciences as follows 51.9%, 25.7%, 17.6% and 4.8% of the respondents respectively studied Social science, Science, Agric/Forestry and Technology. Above 70% of the respondents are aware of the presence and benefits of tree around their office premises and street they live in. of all the benefits of trees in their surrounding, Cooling the environment has the highest percentage of about 40%. On the danger posed by urban trees, Trees falling on roads because of windstorm has the highest percentage of 72.8%. The Awareness on the benefits of trees on Social and Environmental services is very high (above 70%) among the respondents with all the statements such as Trees can reduce energy needs for refrigeration and air conditioning through provision of shade and reduced air temperatures thereby reducing the emission of pollutant chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). Based on the knowledge of urban forestry majority of the respondents are willing to conserve urban trees. Good policy that can bring about development of forestry sector in Oyo state is achievable because it was observed that the senior civil servants at both federal and state secretariats had enough knowledge and perception about the importance of urban trees.
Keywords: Urban trees, awareness, civil servants, environment and services
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