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2016 | 16 | 4(40) | 655-672

Article title

Assessing students’ awareness of environmental hazards and risks in public tertiary educational institutions in Oyo State, Nigeria

Content

Title variants

PL
Ocena świadomości co do zagrożenia i ryzyka środowiskowego studentów publicznych instytucji edukacyjnych trzeciego stopnia w Stanie Oyo w Nigerii

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
Environmental hazards occur in any sphere of human environment and at any locations where human activities take place. One of these locations is the educational campus environment where students reside and carry out their daily academic activities. A cursory observation of campus environments in Nigeria showed evidences of environmental hazards with their associated risks while there has been a dearth of studies on the subject. This paper therefore assessed students’ awareness of environmental hazards and risks in public tertiary educational institutions in Oyo State. Questionnaire were administered on 367 students that were selected using probability sampling techniques. Descriptive analysis was used in computing mean Hazard Awareness Indexes (RSI) and mean Risk Severity Indexes (HAI) for the institutions. Findings revealed that students were aware of environmental hazards and the severity of their associated risks in the institutions both in hostels and academic areas. However, the level of awareness was higher in some institutions than the other. It was recommended that the school authorities should create enlightenment programmes and implement policies that could enhance students’ awareness of environmental hazards and risks in the institutions.
PL
Ryzyko środowiskowe występuje w każdej sferze środowiska człowieka i w każdym miejscu działalności ludzkiej. Jednym z takich miejsc jest środowisko kampusu uniwersyteckiego, w którym mieszkają i wykonują swoje codzienne czynności studenci. Wstępna obserwacja środowisk kampusów w Nigerii wykazała, że występują w nich zagrożenia środowiskowe i powiązane z nimi ryzyka, natomiast bark jest badań na ten temat. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu zbadania świadomości studentów co do zagrożeń i ryzyk środowiskowych w publicznych instytucji edukacyjnych trzeciego stopnia w Stanie Oyo w Nigerii. Przeprowadzono badania kwestionariuszowe wśród 367 studentów wybranych za pomocą technik doboru próby badawczej. Analiza opisowa została wykorzystana do obliczeń średniego Indeksu Świadomości Zagrożenia (ang.: Hazard Awareness Indexes ((HAIs) ̅)) oraz średniego Indeksu Intensywności Ryzyka (ang.: Risk Severity Indexes ((RSIs) ̅)) dla instytucji. Wyniki wykazały, że studenci są świadomi zagrożeń środowiskowych i powagi związanych z nimi ryzyk w instytucjach, zarówno w akademikach, jak i na terenach akademickich. Jednak poziom świadomości był wyższy w odniesieniu do niektórych instytucji. W artykule zaprezentowano rekomendacje, zgodnie z którymi władze uczelni powinny stworzyć programy uświadamiające oraz wdrożyć polityki na rzecz podniesienia świadomości studentów co do zagrożeń i ryzyk środowiskowych w instytucjach.

Year

Volume

16

Issue

Pages

655-672

Physical description

Dates

published
2016-12-15

Contributors

  • Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  • Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
2081-8319

YADDA identifier

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