Climate Change in South-East Nigeria: Losing Homes and Farmlands, Changing Settlements and the Future
Madumelu Madubueze,
Anthony Egberi,
Ikeobi Ejiofor
et al.
Abstract:The study is an assessment of the effects of climate change in South Eastern region. Apart from struggling with the scars of a civil war, the region is experiencing exponential increase in industrialisation, manifesting in a number of industrial clusters which has given rise in the level of industrial gas emissions, establishment of housing estates, resulting in large scale deforestation in a region already threatened by floods, and gully erosion. The study examined the trend in erosion and flooding in South E… Show more
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