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Understanding vulnerability in the Niger floodplain

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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by P.B.L. Tamuno, Margaret E. Ince, Guy Howard
This paper aims to investigate an appropriate method for understanding and including resultant vulnerability to hazard (flood level, hazard severity and flood return periods) in flood mitigation and poverty reduction strategies. The study area is Bayelsa State, which is located in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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TAMUNO, P.B.L. ... et al, 2003. Understanding vulnerability in the Niger floodplain. IN: Harvey, P. (ed). Towards the millennium development goals - Actions for water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 29th WEDC International Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, 22-26 September 2003, pp. 358-361.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2003

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This is a conference paper.

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WEDC_ID:12261

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  • en

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