A survey of the environmental conservation costs by Local Authorities in Kenya

Abstract

The project investigated 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 were used. Both statististical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17 of 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 level of environmental costs in different activities.