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An Assessment Of The Socio-economic Impacts (effects) Of Agulu-nanka Gully Erosion, Anambra State
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1.3 Research Questions
The following research questions inform the aim and objectives of the study:
1. What are the adverse social effects that are consequent on Agulu-Nanka gully erosion?
2. What are the adverse economic effects that resulted from gully erosion in Agulu-Nanka areas?
3. What percentage of the residents of various localities of Agulu-Nanka have suffered as a result of gully erosion?
4.
What is the relationship between the social and economic effects that
resulted from gully erosion in Agulu-Nanka areas?
5. How effective are the measures to contain the menace?
1.4 Aim and Objectives of the Study
The
aim of this study is to assess the adverse social and economic
implications of gully erosion hazards in Agulu-Nanka Communities of
Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria. The specific-objectives of this
study include:
1. To identify the adverse social effects that resulted from gully erosion in Agulu-Nanka.
2. To identify the adverse economic effects that is consequent o gully erosion in the Agulu-Nanka
3.
To determine the size of residents in various localities of Agulu-Nanka
that has suffered adverse social and economic effects resulting from
gully erosion.
4. To determine the relationship between the social and economic effects of gully erosion in the area.
5. To determine the common adaptive measures and their
sustainability
1.5 Research Hypotheses
The research questions and objectives translate to the following research hypotheses that are applied to this study.
1.
H0: The adverse social effects of Agulu-Nanka Erosion on the Residents
in the Erosion affected areas do not differ Significantly from the
social situation in the unaffected Areas.
2. Ho: There is no
significant difference between the economic effects of gully erosion in
the various erosion ravaged localities of Agulu-Nanka and the other
areas.
3. Ho: There is no significant relationship between
the social And the economic effects of gully erosion in Agulu-Nanka
areas.
1.6 Significance of the Study
The study is significant for
two reasons. First, the study intends to identify the percentage of the
residents according to localities that have suffered socially and
economically from gully erosion incidence irrespective of the dimension
of the gully occurrence. Adverse social effects include loss of
ancestral home; loss of school building, loss of church buildings and
loss of sources of water supply. On the other hand, adverse economic
effects include loss of farmland, loss of crops, loss of shop/business
premises, loss of economic trees; palm trees, Ukwa trees (Bread fruit
tree), Udara trees (African apple tree), kola trees, etc. Secondly, this
study intends to determine the relationship the social and economic
effects of gully erosion in the area. The study should enable decision
makers, policy makers and environmental managers to evolve sustainable
procedures for managing human activities like farming, road construction
practices, stone and sand quarrying and harvesting in line with the
characteristics of the lithology in the gully erosion prone areas.
Hitherto,
the studies on gully erosion have established the general factors that
cause gully erosion in the area. This study intends to move in another
direction, it assesses the social and economic losses to the residents
in Agulu-Nanka..
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ] Soil erosion is the systematic removal of soil including plant nutrients from the land surface by various agents of denudation. This paper highlights the social and economic impacts of gulling in the area. Social effects include; loss of ancestral homes, loss of school building, loss of church building and loss of sources of water supply. Economic effects studied are loss of farmland, loss of planted crops, loss of shop/business premises and loss of economic trees. The study intends to id ... Continue reading---
