Building climate change resilience through bottom-up adaptation to flood risk in Warri, Nigeria

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 139-160

  Odemerho, Francis O ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; flood adaptation choices; on street floodwater retention pools; urban expansion; urban flood resilience; urban flood risk management; Warri Nigeria

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

DELTA; NIGERIA; WARRI;

EID: 84927708751     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247814558194     Document Type: Article

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