Climate change and DIY urbanism in Luanda and Maputo: new urban strategies?

Rodrigues, Cristina Udelsmann

doi:10.1080/19463138.2019.1585859

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“…Contrastingly, since the 1990s, the United States introduced the Community Rating System (CRS), a community-driven program that incentivizes local actions for addressing flood risk (Noonan and Sadiq 2018). It is apparent that climate change adaptation is not an exclusive business of the state or formal planning processes, but it goes down to efforts of communities and businesses to protect themselves (Colenbrander and Barau 2019;Udelsmann Rodrigues 2019). By implication, climate adaptation has become a concern of every stakeholder given the weakening resilience of urban areas in developing countries.…”

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“…Nevertheless, designing neighborhood or community resilience to flooding will benefit from understanding the social and ecological attributes of societies which are not limited to biophysical changes, infrastructure, mitigation planning, and public perceptions of extreme events (Parsons 2019). The potentials of grassroots action to address flooding in African countries are said to be a promising and effective self-defense mechanism in poorly serviced areas (Udelsmann Rodrigues 2019).…”

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Do-It-Yourself Flood Risk Adaptation Strategies in the Neighborhoods of Kano City, Nigeria

Barau

Wada

2021

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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The urban poor in developing countries is hit hardest by climate-related extreme events such as flooding. Also, informal settlements lacking municipal support and immediate public response to flooding incur losses and thus exacerbate their sufferings. Left out or left alone, the vulnerable people from some parts of the ancient city of Kano develop their own efforts to protect themselves against the recurrent flood events. Hence, this chapter examines the nature of community-driven do-it-yourself (DIY) adaptation The data was collected through field-based surveys, interviews, and questionnaires to enable in-depth analysis of the problem from socioecological point of view. The results identified flood drivers to include the nature of surface topography, torrential rainfalls, lapses, and inadequacies in the availability of drainage infrastructure and human behavioral lapses in drainage management. On the other hand, the DIY adaptation manifests in the use of sandbags, de-siltation of drainage, construction of fences, and drainage diversions. It is important to highlight that DIY adaptation is a good strategy; however, municipal authorities must come to the aid of such communities and revisit the absence of urban planning by supporting them through capacity building to find more effective solutions to the challenges of the changing climate and environment.

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Do-It-Yourself Flood Risk Adaptation Strategies in the Neighborhoods of Kano City, Nigeria

Barau

Wada

2021

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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“…This must have led Dobson (2017) to argue that community-driven improvements in informal settlements are underutilized for risk reduction and resilience building. Some of the available studies reveal how low-income households cope with climate challenges such as flooding, windstorm and sea level rise (SLR) (see, for example, Adelekan, 2010; Agbor, 2013; Adegun, 2014; Thorn et al , 2015; Amoako, 2018; Mbuya et al , 2018; Cobbinah and Kosoe, 2019; Udelsmann Rodrigues, 2019). The coping strategies for flooding are either structural or nonstructural, reactive (done after flooding) or potentially preventive/pre-emptive (done before, in anticipation, of flooding).…”

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Climatic disasters within a flood-prone coastal slum in Lagos: coping capacities and adaptation prospects

Adegun

2022

IJDRBE

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Purpose Climate impacts are a significant challenge in slums and informal settlements, most of which are located along the coast. This article aims to show coping strategies and flood adaptation opportunities through the case study of a coastal slum in Lagos, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-method approach is used in Idi-Araba settlement, Oworonshoki, Lagos – the case study area. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with 15 purposively selected residents and a survey (sample size = 300 residents). A town hall meeting was convened to disseminate the findings and gather feedback from the community. Findings Being an informally developed settlement, flooding affects the poor-quality buildings – a situation made worse by absence of infrastructure and services. Coping with flooding involves structural strategies (raising building’s foundation, re-roofing, sand-filling the surrounding, etc.), failed attempt through green infrastructure, nonstructural measures through dietary pattern, dressing, etc. These measures emanate from self-help and community efforts, attesting to notable social capital in the study area. They are minimally effective and limited, which highlights adaptation gaps and opportunities. Research limitations/implications This study calls for transformative adaptation, beyond the current coping and maladaptation. It argues that local strategies need to meet with innovative substantive external initiatives from the state and third sector. Originality/value This study considers the single case of a coastal settlement in Lagos. This focus allowed detailed examination within a representative settlement, much unlike city-wide, cross-settlement considerations in many other studies. It provides additional empirical evidence on limitations of self-help flood coping measures and adaptation prospects in the often overlooked low-income, informal urban sector.

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“…Here, everyday objects are enrolled as instruments through which to navigate, mitigate, and disrupt water. State‐led efforts and archetypal objects such as the sandbag are accompanied by alternative and “informal, do‐it‐yourself responses” (Udelsmann Rodrigues, 2019, p. 319). Alongside wading sticks, we see improvised “flood hacks” spanning make‐shift floats and “water bottle life jackets” for people and pets (Coconuts Bangkok, 2011).…”

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Forging volumetric methods

Jackman

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2021

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The last two decades have seen a "volumetric turn" within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three-dimensional termswith complex heights and depthsrather than as a series of two-dimensional areas or surfaces. While there is an increasingly diverse and rich set of scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities in the air, oceans, ice, mountains, and undergrounds, all too often this work foregrounds state and military-led approaches to volume. This has resulted in a limited methodological toolkit through which to explore voluminous complexities as they emerge and extend beyond military and state contexts. Often reliant on elite interviews, archives, and cartographies, there has been little critical discussion of both methodological practice and the "flatness" of research outputs articulating three-dimensional worlds. In this paper we address this by foregrounding the role of immersive and multisensory methodologies (sounding volumes, seeing-sensing drone volumes, and object volumes). To conclude, we offer avenues for further inquiry, including attending to shifting everyday voluminous experiences in the Anthropocene, and the need to diversify the communication of "volume" research.

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Climate change and DIY urbanism in Luanda and Maputo: new urban strategies?

Cited by 13 publications

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Do-It-Yourself Flood Risk Adaptation Strategies in the Neighborhoods of Kano City, Nigeria

Do-It-Yourself Flood Risk Adaptation Strategies in the Neighborhoods of Kano City, Nigeria

Climatic disasters within a flood-prone coastal slum in Lagos: coping capacities and adaptation prospects

Forging volumetric methods

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