How Have Deforestation Affected Economic and Social Welfare: The Case of Port Harcourt City

Anowor Oluchukwu F.* and Agbarakwe Henry Ugochukwu
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Anowor Oluchukwu F.*: Department of Economics, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Nigeria
Agbarakwe Henry Ugochukwu: Department of Economics, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

The Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2018, vol. 4, issue 8, 116-124

Abstract: This work internalized the influence of deforestation on economic and social welfare in Port Harcourt City. The study espoused the survey approach through special surveillance, conversations and opinion pull and the data collected was analyzed to obtain the variances, correlations and regression models. The results of the research showed that deforestation significantly and negatively affected output and social welfare in Port Harcourt City and also negatively and significantly affected income of the farming communities. It therefore recommended that governments should take urgent steps to discourage unsustainable deforestation and at same time encourage reforestation to improve output, income and enhance social welfare.

Keywords: Deforestation; Reforestation; Biological species; Biodiversity; Biodegradation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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