On mapping urban community resilience: Land use vulnerability, coping and adaptive strategies in Ghana

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作者
Ibrahim, Abdul-Salam [1 ]
Kuuire, Vincent [2 ,3 ]
Kepe, Thembela [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Geog & Planning, Toronto, ON, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto Mississauga, Dept Geog Geomat & Environm, Mississauga, ON, Canada
[3] Univ Toronto, Dalla Lana Sch Publ Hlth, Social & Behav Hlth Sci Div, Toronto, ON, Canada
[4] Univ Toronto, Dept Geog, Toronto, ON, Canada
[5] Rhodes Univ, Geog Dept, Makhanda, South Africa
关键词
Community resilience; Vulnerability; Participatory GIS; Urban floods; Climate change; Urban resilience planning; LIMITATIONS;
D O I
10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122426
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Cities across the globe are prioritizing resilience in the wake of increasing climate change-related disasters. About 44% of these disasters are floods and their manifestation in cities is more pronounced, threatening urban social, ecological, and economic systems. This study draws on community resilience and participatory GIS, to examine land use vulnerability to flooding and local coping and adaptive strategies to achieve resilience. Using Ghana as a case study, the results show that participatory mapping offers community resilience benefits by providing context to community resilience challenges and potentials, enabling a deeper understanding of socio-environmental coupling that contributes to flood vulnerability and builds on community adaptive strategies through harnessing local community knowledge. We identified that topography, poor drainage and road network, rainfall variability, residents' land use practices, and land use planning conundrum drive disparities in land use vulnerability to flooding. Participants underscored the necessity of critical urban infrastructure in facilitating community adaptability to floods. The findings indicate that socio-spatial inequities threaten urban community resilience, especially in increasingly cosmopolitan urban contexts, by putting the marginalized urban population in a more vulnerable position. We recommend the prioritization of recognitional equity in community resilience planning efforts to allow for the targeting of resilient interventions that reflect and respect social differentiation in the urban environment so that outcomes will not exacerbate or generate new urban socio-spatial inequalities.
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