Adanu Selase Kofi, Boakye Maxwell Kwame, Gbedemah Shine Francis, Nyatuame Mexoese
Department of Environmental Science Ho Technical University Ho Ghana.
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences University of Environment and Sustainable Development Somanya Ghana.
Geohealth. 2025 Mar 6;9(3):e2024GH001168. doi: 10.1029/2024GH001168. eCollection 2025 Mar.
Expansion of residential and commercial facilities have contributed to rapid urbanization of Ho municipality. As a result, quarry activities have intensified in Klefe a major stone quarry source for construction. The increased demand for quarry stones has created jobs for many but has also led to the perception of health and environment challenges negatively affecting the people and the natural environment. In view of the extensive quarry activities in the area, the aim of the study was to assess perceptions of effects of quarrying activities on human health and the environment. Stratified random sampling method was used to select respondents to answer questions on a questionnaire and application of a relative importance index to examine what the study community perceive as the most important environmental and health effects of quarrying. Exploratory factor analysis was used to determine relationships existing among environmental hazards and their perceived health effects. Sedimentation, land degradation and injury from quarrying were the main perceived effects of quarrying. Efforts to address any perceived effects of quarrying should focus on sedimentation, land degradation and injury from quarrying.
住宅和商业设施的扩张推动了霍市的快速城市化。因此，采石活动在克莱费加剧，克莱费是建筑用主要石料 quarry 的来源地。对 quarry 石料需求的增加为许多人创造了就业机会，但也导致人们认为采石活动对健康和环境构成挑战，对当地居民和自然环境产生了负面影响。鉴于该地区广泛的采石活动，本研究的目的是评估人们对采石活动对人类健康和环境影响的看法。采用分层随机抽样方法选择受访者回答问卷中的问题，并应用相对重要性指数来考察研究社区认为采石活动对环境和健康最重要的影响是什么。探索性因素分析用于确定环境危害与其感知到的健康影响之间存在的关系。沉积、土地退化和采石造成的伤害是人们认为采石活动的主要影响。应对采石活动任何感知到的影响的努力应集中在沉积、土地退化和采石造成的伤害上。
