Christopher Amamgbo

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development
  • Life continues in the flood basin at high tide, where the porest people of Lagos trade and live. Nigeria (photo Bart Fouche)

Resilience to Climate Change through Community-Based Adaptation Planning: The Case of Lagos, Nigeria

The main objective of the research is to evaluate how the concept of community-based adaptation to climate change can be applied to the local climate policy framework of low-income communities of developing countries. Lagos, a mega-city in Nigeria faced with flooding issues, is used as a case study.

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