Abstract
The prostration of policy makersfor the compulsory inclusion and retaining of greens in neighbourhoods and urban hemisphere generallydeclines the mitigation ofdissimilar environmental calamities. This paper x-rayed urban green parapets and environmental appearance of Port Harcourt Nigeria through the adoption of inferential and non-inferential survey strategies. The primary data was acquired through5 likertpoints designed questionnaire that sampled 350 households while circulated materials acquired within the secondary research circumference emanated from text-books, undergraduate and post graduate research work, conference/seminar, working papers, official records and other academic reports. The analysis employed mean value (MV), spearman’s correlation coefficient and chi-square (x2) statistics test at 0.05 significant points. The finding shown thatmean score of (25.22) significant value for the low income,(29.21) medium income resident and high income population with a mean value of (24.22) for thevariation of green properties among residents of Port Harcourt.The result further reserved that urban greens,reductions of flood and improvement of environmental potentials had a strong relationship at (x2 = 499.87> 0.005) and there was a positive relationship between environmental greening and education attainment at (r=-.285), weak relationship exist between greening and human population (r= - .053),occupational prestige and urban greening (r-.043). The work recommended thatphysical planning efforts are required for the provision and protection of green infrastructure through constituted taskforce on green infrastructure, civil defence and neighbourhood vigilantes or guard. The provision of such social security personnel will protect and improve urban and peri greens and areas perceived green infrastructure insecure will reduce and thus declining environmental calamities associated with alteration and non-inclusion of greens in urban development.
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