Christopher Amamgbo MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

Life continues in the flood basin at high tide, where the porest people of Lagos trade and live. Nigeria (photo Bart Fouche)

Resilience to Climate Change through Community-Based Adaptation Planning: The Case of Lagos, Nigeria

The main objective of the research is to evaluate how the concept of community-based adaptation to climate change can be applied to the local climate policy framework of low-income communities of developing countries. Lagos, a mega-city in Nigeria faced with flooding issues, is used as a case study.