A Survey of the Environmental Conservation Costs by Local Authorities in Kenya

Abstract

This study investigates the environmental conservation costs of the local authorities in Kenya by analyzing the data collected from 90 of these local authorities. The population of the study is the 175 local authorities in Kenya. A sample of 90 local authorities has been used. Both statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17 and Excel have been used to determine the level of environmental conservation costs in the studied local authorities. The results indicated that there was a wide use of environmental conservation costs among the local authorities. The study provides preliminary evidence on environmental conservation costs used by local authorities in Kenya. Further research is suggested to explore the possible motivating factors among different local authorities’ degree of application and level of environmental costs in different activities.

Keywords: {'name': 'Environmental Conservation'}, {'name': 'Local authorities'}, {'name': 'Environmental costs'}

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Nicholas Muthuma Mutua
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