Open AccessA Survey of the Environmental Conservation Costs by Local Authorities in Kenya
Author(s) -
Nicholas Muthuma Mutua,
Samuel Kakui Kilika
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of finance and banking studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2147-4486
DOI - 10.20525/ijfbs.v2i3.153
Subject(s) - business , sample (material) , local government , environmental resource management , environmental planning , geography , economics , chemistry , chromatography , archaeology
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.