Awareness of and responses to the 2011 flood warnings among vulnerable communities in Lagos, Nigeria

Global Sustainability: Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 203-223

  Olokesusi, F ^a   Olorunfemi, F B ^a   Onwuemele, A ^a   Oke, M O ^a  

^a Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Communities; Disaster; Flooding; Lagos; Vulnerability; Warning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944244092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16477-9_11     Document Type: Chapter

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