Aaron Akinloye and Festus Oladimeji Olafare*
Buildings are among the most important artifacts in the landscapes of the world, as they provide homes for people to live in, as well as carrying out other social activities. This study examined clustered building structures as predictors of environmental pollution in Lagos metropolitan city. Studies have been conducted on pollution generally but there is little of such studies on clustered building structures as it relates to environmental pollution. A descriptive survey research design was adopted to describe all the variables. While purposive sampling technique was employed to in choosing three hundred and seventy-two (372) residents as respondents. A revalidated questionnaire was used with a testretest method yielding 0.82. Hypotheses were tested using Chi-square (X2) at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that there is significant difference between resident education and level of risk perception (knowledge and concerns) of environmental pollution (p=0.017, p<0.05). Also among others, there is significant difference between government policies and factors responsible for clustered building structures (p=0.005, p<0.05). Conclusively, there is need for a proper understanding of this linkage in order to effectively and efficiently develop programmers and strategies that will enhance the drive towards sustainable environmental management. It is recommended that, both government and the researchers should reinvigorate campaigns for the clustered buildings structured as a way of securing their long-time utility and preventing environmental pollutions and laws proscribing change of use of buildings should be enforced more strictly to prevent developers from putting buildings to use for which the buildings are not well-suited.
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