Residents’ satisfaction on the use of green infrastructure at Osogbo, Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria

Uncontrolled urbanization particularly in developing cities has exerted enormouspressure on green infrastructure which has led to their conscious and unconsciousconversion to other land uses. This study investigates the residents’ satisfaction andawareness on the use of green infrastructure (GI) with a view to creating a functionalenvironment. Primary data were obtained from field observations where 166 pretestedquestionnaires were administered in a stratified random sampling manner on therespondents while secondary data were obtained from conventional sources. Dataanalysis made use of computations of the Residents’ Satisfaction Index (RSI) andprincipal component analysis. Results revealed that RSI was highest at 2.60; lowest at1.93 and average at 2.29 while the deviations from the mean of the highest and thelowest RSI were +0.31 and -0.04. The factor analysis generated four (4) underlyingdimensions of the respondents’ view on GI, which made good conceptual sense andexplained a total variable of 72.24% of the observed variance. The factors on GI werenamed as; awareness (27.8%), management (19.98%), provision (13.34%) and type(11.12%). The planning implication is that efforts should be made to increase residents’satisfaction on variables with low RSI on GI to promote recreation, environmentalawareness, beauty, flood reduction and the fight against climate change to uphold anenvironment that is in harmony with nature.