Urbanization and Environmental Stress: A Review of Impacts of Urban Development on the Environment in Kenya

George Ouma Ochola
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George Ouma Ochola: Department of Agronomy and Environmental Studies, Rongo University, Kenya

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2018, vol. 14, issue 4, 68-72

Abstract: Urbanization has been considered a development process which is beneficial both to individuals and the country at large. People move from rural to urban areas in search of better services like education, jobs, and recreational services among others. Urbanization draws various activities like industrialization, tourism, educational and health facilities which not only contribute revenue to the government but also create employment opportunities for the jobless which in turn reduces crime rates associated with joblessness. Despite the benefits that accrue from urbanization, it has been characterized by loss of vegetation cover, degradation of surface water quality, land degradation, more generation of waste, air pollution, poor infiltration, noise among other impacts. These impacts if left unmonitored, generally degrades the quality of the environment. The study was informed from such argument to examine the impacts of urbanization on the environment. It relied on document analysis as a method of data gathering.

Keywords: earth and environment journals; environment journals; open access environment journals; peer reviewed environmental journals; open access; juniper publishers; ournal of Environmental Sciences; juniper publishers journals; juniper publishers reivew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2018.14.555889

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