[PDF] Top 20 CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A CASE STUDY OF VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION IN COASTAL COMMUNITIES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA

... in climate change is in the area of ...of adaptation is required because of the current degree of warming to which the world is already subjected due to past emissions (Jennings, ...2012). ... See full document

... of climate change induced ...the vulnerability of extreme poor people by destroying their assets reducing their work opportunities, customer base and ...the study presents four major findings: ... See full document

... wave climate as a consequence of global climate change are expected to in- crease the size and magnitude of flooded and eroding coastal areas, thus having profound impacts on coastal ... See full document

... five climate change issues experienced by the respondents were as follows: long duration of drought, the hot temperature, long duration of precipitation, flooding and unpredictable change of ...the ... See full document

... Flood and drought are caused by several factors ranging from natural occur- rences to climate change. In the same vein, flood is also caused by improper waste disposal and generally poor waste management ... See full document

... re-viewing climate change issues with these concerns, this study found that either adaptation or mitigation aims to understand environmental problems and propose countermeasures based on the ... See full document

... with climate change is still lower than that of the majority of ...of climate change has raised the need for a more direct communication between scientists and the ...as climate ... See full document

... Abacha’s dictatorship laid the country waist in moral. Citizens were disillusioned, disenfranchised and pauperized. Political antagonism among groups and nationalities was heightened. A huge percentage of the national ... See full document

... climate change. The shortage of agricultural production due to climate change will greatly affect the world’s economic balance (Ozcan and Strauss, ...of climate change on the ... See full document

... is climate change and what will happen in the ...the climate is definitely warming, it is logical to ask two questions that have such changes happened be- fore in the history of the earth and what ... See full document

... global climate change, the effects of changes in the pattern of freshwater inflow to estuaries on salinity, temperature, sediment delivery and movement and nutrient supply has far reaching ecological ...to ... See full document

... adaptation and mitigation; in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability... Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Pane[r] ... See full document

... that adaptation to climate change increases with increasing temperature is in line with the expectation that increasing temperature is damaging to African agriculture and farmers respond to this ... See full document

... to climate change impacts in that they are able to promote sedimentation, and so protect the coastline from inundation owing their ability to foster high rates of sediment ... See full document

... of climate change, particularly radio and ...on climate change is little, most of them were aware of the changes in their surroundings, particularly the changing trends in atmospheric ... See full document

... Increasingly, adaptation is emerging as an issue of critical importance in studies that examine the climate change-human health ...the climate change literature, ... See full document

... In order to achieve the aims of this study, structuredquestionnaires were used to collect prima ry data fro m 205 groundnut farmers in the study area. Multistage sampling technique was adopted. The first ... See full document

... a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political ... See full document

... evaluate vulnerability to CC and natural disasters in general (Nguyen and Can, 2012; WWF - Vietnam, 2013), in which, integrated assessment approach (based on assessment of exposure -E, sensitivity -S, and adaptive ... See full document

... and coastal tourism sector, which are mostly appearing to be unplanned and ...extreme climate events like fatalities from storms and other infectious diseases (Patz and Campbell, ...changing climate. ... See full document