Climate change and livelihood vulnerabilities of low-income coastal communities in Lagos, Nigeria

Olajide, Oluwafemi; Lawanson, Taibat

doi:10.1080/19463138.2013.878348

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“…Recently, many studies related vulnerability to the impacts of climate change (Smit and Wandel, 2006;Wall and Marzall, 2006;Ramamasy and Baas, 2007;Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008;Hahn et al, 2009a;Shah et al, 2013b;IPCC, 2014a;Olajide and Lawanson, 2014;Thornton et al, 2014;Oo et al, 2018). With the increasingly adverse impacts from climate change, vulnerability evaluations have drawn much attention in the literature (Tian et al, 2015).…”

Section: Literature Review On Livelihood Vulnerability Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dynamics of Livelihood Vulnerability Index at Farm Household Level: An Empirical Analysis of the Coastal Sandy Zone in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

Minh

Lebailly²,

Hao³

et al. 2019

IJEFI

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Rural households in Vietnam have been facing various adverse impacts on their livelihoods. By using 28 indicators of sustainable livelihood framework (SLF), this study aims to identify the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) of the households in the coastal sandy zone in Thua Thien Hue (TTH). Based on the baseline data in 2007-2008, the study conducted a survey of 110 households living in four districts of the region to have a thorough evaluation of LVI. The results showed that excluding the increase in natural capital index (0.194-0.225), the value of LVI reduced in the dimension of human capital (0.365-0.363), social capital (0.081-0.075), physical capital (0.139-0.048) and financial capital (0.405-0.273). In overall, the value of the LVI index scored 0.244 in 2007-2008 and 0.214 in 2017-2018, respectively. The research findings contribute a deeper understanding of the vulnerable context of household communities that support the issuance of policy intervention, a social project as well as impact assessment of the given factors such as change of vulnerable contexts, structure and process.

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Section: Literature Review On Livelihood Vulnerability Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dynamics of Livelihood Vulnerability Index at Farm Household Level: An Empirical Analysis of the Coastal Sandy Zone in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

Minh

Lebailly²,

Hao³

et al. 2019

IJEFI

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“…Beyond individual and household vulnerabilities, urban poor residents of coastal communities in Lagos are also collectively vulnerable, as neighbourhood amenities destroyed during flooding incidents are seldom replaced or repaired promptly. The particular case of Ajegunle Ikorodu community was revealed in a study by Olajide and Lawanson (2014). The only secondary school was destroyed during the floods of October 2010.…”

Section: Environmental Sustainability: Urban Vulnerability and Informal Governance Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Untamed Urbanisms

Sotiropoulou

2015

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One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. The book aims to re-politicize the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change.For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category, but recognizes that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. Drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North, this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated socialecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development.Through the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and global North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development that will be of interest to researchers, city managers and a wide range of policy actors in government, civil society and the private sector.An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.

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“…Lagos, Nigeria is vulnerable to climate change. Parts of the low-lying coastal city is less than two meters above sea level (UN-HABITAT, 2011;Olajide, 2014). Climate change and the consequent sea-level rise (SLR) are very likely to exacerbate vulnerability further threatening the livelihoods of the growing urban poor population (Adelekan, 2010;UN DESA, 2019).…”

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“…Climate change, land degradation and desertification are adversely affecting arable land, forest and coastal areas in urban and rural Africa (Olajide and Lawanson, 2014;Elias and Omojola 2015;Nkrumah, 2019). Extreme climatic events (flood and drought) due to climate change have increase in parts of sub-Saharan Africa in recent years (Akande et al, 2017;Amanchukwu et al, 2015).…”

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Sustainable Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of a Coupled Single-Loop Aquaponics System in Nigeria

Benjamin¹,

Tzemi²,

Fialho³

2021

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Countries in West Africa are adversely affected by climate change (erratic rainfall and rising temperature) resulting in floods, desertification, drought and sea level rise. These events are anticipated to have negative impacts on agricultural development on the continent, ultimately, contributing to food insecurity and environmental degradation. This implies that the production capacity of agrarian communities is unable to meet the food demand of the growing urban population. Can sustainable and innovative urban farming technology such as aquaponics achieve food security as well as sustainable development in countries vulnerable to climate change? This study uses inferential statistic to examine the plant growth performance in micro-scale aquaponics and specific growth rate per day (SGR) for the fish growth performance vis-à-vis conventional urban farming production. A quantitative analysis use to examine the barriers to adoption based on survey of (five) urban aquaculture practitioners in Lagos, Nigeria. Literature review was use to assess the economic feasibility of a small-scale aquaponics system in developing countries based on Net-Discounted Beneﬁt-Cost Rate (DBCR). The results suggest that aquaponics can improve food security through fish and vegetable production and it is likely that urban farming practitioners will adopt the technology if support mechanism are in place. Aquaponics systems present a novel opportunity to promote environmental conservation as well as sustainable food production and consumption in urban areas in Western Africa if adequate financial credit and knowledge transfer is provided.

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Climate change and livelihood vulnerabilities of low-income coastal communities in Lagos, Nigeria

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

The Dynamics of Livelihood Vulnerability Index at Farm Household Level: An Empirical Analysis of the Coastal Sandy Zone in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

The Dynamics of Livelihood Vulnerability Index at Farm Household Level: An Empirical Analysis of the Coastal Sandy Zone in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

Untamed Urbanisms

Sustainable Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of a Coupled Single-Loop Aquaponics System in Nigeria

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