Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: February | Volume: 11 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 84-89
Causes and Consequences of the Destruction of Green Spaces in the City of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo
Mvemba Nzinga Nkuwu Ntumba Joseph-Antoine1, Aloni Komanda Jules2, Binzangi Kamalandua Lambert3, Lapika Dimomfu Bruno4, Paulus Jean-Jacques2, Nkodila Natuhoyila Aliocha6,7, Longo-Mbenza Benjamin1,5,6
1Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, DR Congo
2Faculty of Sciences, University of Kinshasa, DR Congo
3Faculty of Sciences, National Pedagogical University, DR Congo
4Faculty of Social, Political and Administrative Sciences, University of Kinshasa, DR Congo
5Walter Sisulu University, MTHATHA, South Africa
6Faculty of Public Health, Lomo University of Research, Kinshasa-Limete, DR Congo
7Faculty of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Protestant University in Congo, DR Congo
Corresponding Author: Aliocha Nkodila Natuhoyila
ABSTRACT
Background and objective: The study of the determining causes and consequences of the destruction of the green spaces of the City of Kinshasa has a certain interest by the quality of the results that it makes available to Kinshasa, scientists, researchers and decision-makers to allow know their situation which prevails in this urban ecosystem. The objective of this work is to obtain scientific data on the causes and consequences of the destruction of green spaces in the city of Kinshasa.
Methods: we used proven methods such as direct observation of facts in the field, documentary research, analytical, statistical, Survey method ... supported by a few techniques such as questionnaire survey, interview, etc. Considering the increased interest in urban ecological problems, it is desirable that green spaces develop considerably over the next decades in the city of Kinshasa.
Results: The results obtained from these investigations highlight a notorious virtual absence of green spaces in the city of Kinshasa in general and in particular in the 4 survey municipalities, due to several factors such as anarchic and formal occupation of green spaces (7.4%), non-compliance with the texts regulating easements including green spaces (8.8%), decommissioning of green spaces for residential and other purposes (10.4%) in defiance of their initial vocation (in accordance with local development plan), factual use: domestic, school, commercial, housing, sanitation, dumping ground (93.8%), proliferation and emergence of erosion and flooding (14.2%), disappearance of a formidable number of damage to biodiversity (10.4%), repercussions on the entire ecosystem (25.8%).
Conclusion: Finally, for the future and given the virtual absence of green spaces in the study environment, all Congolese in general and Kinshasa in particular must remember that: "any withdrawal requires a return; because, nature abhors a vacuum.
Key words: Cause, consequence, green space, spoliation, city of Kinshasa.