Beyond rhetoric: urban planning-climate change resilience conundrum in Accra, Ghana

Asibey, Michael Osei; Mintah, Frank; Adutwum, Isaac Osei; Wireko-Gyebi, Rejoice Selorm; Tagnan, Jacob Nchagmado; Yevugah, Lily Lisa; Agyeman, Kwasi Osei; Abdul-Salam, Abdulai Jahanfo

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103950

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Hampton and Curtis (2022) addressed the topic of governance climate adaptation, particularly on the implementation of flood insurance implementation that aims to deliver risk reduction and affordability to cover land-use planning, housing, consumer, and community representatives. Most previous studies also stressed the development of necessary capacity-building activities to improve the spatial plan implementation capacities of local governments such as by transforming governance mechanisms, developing governance approach to peri-urban flooding to acknowledge the social and ecological complexities of climate change, and integrating Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) (Wen et al, 2023;Govindarajulu et al, 2020;Winter and Karvonen, 2022;Asibey et al, 2022;Hewawasam and Matsui, 2020;Van Assche et al, 2022). These will lead to the active participation of stakeholders and foster institutional collaboration to garner further attention from all tiers of government (Maru and Worku., 2022;Singh et al, 2021;Dunning et al, 2020;Ardaya et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Flood Resilience of Housing Development Through Land Governance: A Thematic Review

Mohammad,

Mohd Raid,

Suratman

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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Global climate change has brought about significant modifications in weather patterns, impacting the interaction between weather and water-related elements. As a result, there has been an increase in hydrometeorological disasters, which rank as the second most severe natural catastrophe. Nevertheless, over half of the world population lives in flood-prone areas. This has led global and local actors to develop more comprehensive and multidiscipline flood resilience and mitigation. Despite the existing awareness, there is a void of past research discussing the utilisation of land governance as a tool to enhance flood resilience in housing development. This thematic review synthesised research conducted between 2019 and 2023 on flood-resilient housing development through land governance. ATLAS.ti 8 was employed. A keyword search on SCOPUS, Science Direct, and Emerald Insight databases identified 175 peer-reviewed journal articles. After inclusion and exclusion, a total of 109 articles were reviewed. The comprehensive examination of these articles on flood resilience revealed that the articles explored four pillars: institutional and governance concerns, socio-economic concerns, disaster management concerns, and environmental concerns. The findings from these articles will form the basis for future extensive studies to strengthen flood resilience in Malaysian housing development through effective land governance strategies.

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Section: Institutional and Governance Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flood Resilience of Housing Development Through Land Governance: A Thematic Review

Mohammad,

Mohd Raid,

Suratman

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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“…This assumption is based on previous research findings. Descriptions of the results of disaster research tend to use rhetoric with a news angle that tells of drama and tragedy (Osnos 2010, Stock 2018, Asibey et al 2022. The predominance of news framing of this kind explains the practice of telling tragedies and leads to the reasoning of the reality of sadness.…”

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Domination criticism and freedom criticism on flood news in online media from a Foucauldian view

Christantyawati,

Izzati,

Dayanti

2024

MKP

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This article discusses the issue of flood disaster polemics in online media using McKerrow’s critical rhetorical theory analysis, with the main aim of getting closer to discourse formations that have not been discussed in previous research on political interest contestation. This research uses Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis method to reveal flood news articles from 2019-2021 on Tirto.id. Meanwhile, the Foucauldian perspective in this study is used as a review of McKerrow’s critical rhetoric to analyze power, right and truth. Furthermore, this triangulation is explained in two criticisms, namely, criticism of domination and freedom in the online media Tirto.id in reporting on the flood. This study found that in terms of power, Tirto.id discusses criticism of power as a struggle for power in the social status of the upper and lower middle classes. Dominance tends to appear in social disparities and discrepancies in the effects of development on poor communities and the surrounding ecosystem. In terms of rights, Tirto.id discusses demands for ecological justice for lower middle class society. Finally, in terms of truth, the discourse about flood victims includes the lower classes as a result of land grabbing. This study concludes that criticism of domination shows that the government is not very serious about the concept of ecological justice for all groups. Criticism of freedom shows that Tirto.id expresses satire that floods are only suffered by poor people, not rich people.

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“…Though studies (Cobbinah and Anane, 2016; Cobbinah et al , 2019; Asibey et al , 2022) exist on climate change impacts and adaptation of local communities to climate change in Ghana, there is a dearth of research on assessing institutions’ ability to enhance the adaptive capacity of society (Herzog, 2009). The main attention has been on climate adaptation in rural Ghana (Cobbinah and Anane, 2016; Cobbinah et al , 2022), without a direct attempt to explore the capacity of institutions as desired in this study.…”

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Spatial planning and community adaptive capacity to climate change: the case of La Dade-Kotopon municipality in Ghana

Mohammed-Siitah,

Siddique

2023

JPPEL

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Purpose Spatial planning is globally identified as an effective strategy for providing climate change adaptation needs. However, there is a dearth of literature on how spatial planning relates to climate change control in Ghana, particularly at the local level. Hence, this paper aims to investigate whether spatial planning plays a significant role in the control of climate change and the adaptive capacities at the local level. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt a mixed-method approach, where both qualitative and quantitative data were obtained using an interview guide and survey, respectively. The authors analyze the data using a qualitative content analysis method and descriptive statistics. Findings The results show that spatial planning plays an important role in climate change adaptation, though in a limited way. The physical planning department at the municipal level has varying amounts of capacities across various determinants, but there are opportunities for improving the capacity of the department. Originality/value The authors provide empirical evidence to support the need to prioritize spatial planning as a strategy for dealing with the impacts of climate change and the building of capacities at the national and community levels for improved adaptive capacity.

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Beyond rhetoric: urban planning-climate change resilience conundrum in Accra, Ghana

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

Flood Resilience of Housing Development Through Land Governance: A Thematic Review

Flood Resilience of Housing Development Through Land Governance: A Thematic Review

Domination criticism and freedom criticism on flood news in online media from a Foucauldian view

Spatial planning and community adaptive capacity to climate change: the case of La Dade-Kotopon municipality in Ghana

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