Comparison of community-based adaptation strategies for droughts and floods in Kenya and the Central African Republic

Nguimalet, Cyriaque-Rufin

doi:10.1080/02508060.2017.1393713

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“…This included articles on the impact of agricultural interventions and farmer perceptions in Afghanistan [ 34 , 37 ], and determining adaptation implementation and perception among farmers in Myanmar [ 55 , 68 ]. There were a few studies comparing farmer adaptation across countries, for example between Lebanon and Germany [ 19 ] and between Central African Republic and Kenya [ 51 ]. For both Mali and Nigeria, more than half of the articles for each country related to the food sector, ranging from smallholder farmers in Mali [ 57 ], to articles on specific drought-tolerant crops [ 77 ] and farmers of fruits and vegetables in Nigeria [ 4 ].…”

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Climate change adaptation in conflict-affected countries: A systematic assessment of evidence

Sitati¹,

Joe

Pentz

et al. 2021

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People affected by conflict are particularly vulnerable to climate shocks and climate change, yet little is known about climate change adaptation in fragile contexts. While climate events are one of the many contributing drivers of conflict, feedback from conflict increases vulnerability, thereby creating conditions for a vicious cycle of conflict. In this study, we carry out a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature, taking from the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative (GAMI) dataset to documenting climate change adaptation occurring in 15 conflict-affected countries and compare the findings with records of climate adaptation finance flows and climate-related disasters in each country. Academic literature is sparse for most conflict-affected countries, and available studies tend to have a narrow focus, particularly on agriculture-related adaptation in rural contexts and adaptation by low-income actors. In contrast, multilateral and bilateral funding for climate change adaptation addresses a greater diversity of adaptation needs, including water systems, humanitarian programming, and urban areas. Even among the conflict-affected countries selected, we find disparity, with several countries being the focus of substantial research and funding, and others seeing little to none. Results indicate that people in conflict-affected contexts are adapting to climate change, but there is a pressing need for diverse scholarship across various sectors that documents a broader range of adaptation types and their results.

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Climate change adaptation in conflict-affected countries: A systematic assessment of evidence

Sitati¹,

Joe

Pentz

et al. 2021

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“…This is similar to the study of Devcota et al, (2014) in Nepal that showed that the community had used their local knowledge to forecast the flooding such as the movement of cloud and therefore, they had prepared a temporary location to rescue themselves. Also, in both areas within the communities of Kenya and Central Africa, their main adaptation strategy for floods is temporary relocation (Nguimalet, 2018). Further, the study of Danso and Addo (2016) at Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, in Ghana suggests that mutual coping strategies adopted by residents in all the communities were temporary relocation of homes, transfer of properties to neighbor's and building of floods steps.…”

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Assessing Community Adaptation Strategies to Floods in Flood-Prone Areas of Urban District, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Nassor¹,

Makame²

2021

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Floods disasters around the world have increased for the last 20 years and affected billions of people. The same has been observed in Zanzibar, which resulted in severe impacts in many parts of the urban-west region and affected many people, threaten several lives and caused substantial economic losses. Therefore, this study intended to assess the community adaptation strategies to floods, the genesis of those strategies and the limiting factors for each adaptation strategies in flood-prone areas in the Urban District in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It involved 399 households. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire for heads of the households to assess their adaptation strategies. The study discovered that the community has been employing different adaptation strategies to reduce the floods risk at pre, during and after floods. Before flooding is cemented the floor, while during flooding moved to another place and after flooding did the structural repairs of their houses and recommendations to the government on providing necessary support are delineated.

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“…For Birkmann (2007), difficulties in recovering from the negative impacts of hazardous events also generate vulnerability, which makes coping and recovering part of its assessment. Therefore, we suggest that a combination of institutional and social strategies to provide better financial conditions and generate enhanced risk perception and coping capacity must be implemented in the city as resources to decrease flood vulnerability and increase resilience (Nguimalet 2018).…”

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An integrated socio-environmental framework for mapping hazard-specific vulnerability and exposure in urban areas

Alves

Djordjević

2021

Urban Water Journal

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Hazards act upon vulnerability and exposure to create disaster risk. Despite the growth of disaster risk assessments, the number of approaches that develop vulnerability and exposure studies is still small when compared with hazard modelling. In fact, limited studies have considered the relationship between vulnerability and exposure variables and how this can change future management actions on a local scale. This paper addresses this gap by proposing an integrated framework with a combination of social and environmental sciences to map hazard-specific vulnerability and exposure in urban areas. Subjective (e.g. Participatory Approach) and objective methods (e.g. Shannon Entropy and Fuzzy Theory) were integrated into a pixel-by-pixel framework for enhancing the flooding management in Campina Grande, Brazil. The results express the spatial distribution of flood vulnerability and exposure and assess key issues for flood management in different vulnerability categories. Challenges for the integration of socioenvironmental approaches in water resources studies are discussed.

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Comparison of community-based adaptation strategies for droughts and floods in Kenya and the Central African Republic

Cited by 22 publications

References 13 publications

Climate change adaptation in conflict-affected countries: A systematic assessment of evidence

Climate change adaptation in conflict-affected countries: A systematic assessment of evidence

Assessing Community Adaptation Strategies to Floods in Flood-Prone Areas of Urban District, Zanzibar, Tanzania

An integrated socio-environmental framework for mapping hazard-specific vulnerability and exposure in urban areas

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