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This study reveals that while the Pakistani government has instituted a comprehensive disaster risk reduction (DRR) governance system, the system actually suffers from a lack of political commitment, funding, skilled human resources, and coordination and suffers from fragmentation, and overlapping and unclear mandates among government agencies horizontally and vertically. Issues addressed: (i) DRR governance; (ii) multi-hazard disaster risk analysis and early warning systems; (iii) DRR: prevention and mitigation; (iv) DRR: avoidance and response; (v) policy, advocating, and networking; (vi) co ...Unjust waters : climate change, flooding and the urban poor in Africa
Russell Sage Foundation, 2008Poor people living in hazardous and unhealthy environments in urban areas may find their difficulties compounded by the consequences of climate change. These include those who construct their shelters on steep, unstable hillsides, or along the foreshore on former mangrove swamps or tidal flats. This paper considers the implications for the vulnerability of the urban poor in Africa using case studies of the worsening situation from Accra (Ghana), Kampala (Uganda), Nairobi (Kenya), Lagos (Nigeria), and Maputo (Mozambique).
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