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Planeamento de Adaptação Climática das Cidades Costeiras

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Publication Date: August 4, 2016
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Nas cidades costeiras de Angola, a intensidade e variabilidade de eventos climáticos como tempestades e inundações mais do que duplicou ao longo dos últimos 60 anos. Para a maior parte desse período, o conflito nas províncias do interior levou as pessoas para a segurança relativa das cidades costeiras - designadamente Cabinda, Luanda e as cidades...

Counting rooftops – IDRC Bulletin – April 2013

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Publication Date: August 4, 2016
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A longstanding IDRC grantee combines satellite observations with old-fashioned grassroots data gathering to measure the impact of Angola's rapidly growing slums on the environment. Since 2002, when decades of civil conflict ended, Angola has struggled to rebuild. Its planners are hampered, however, by a shortage of reliable data about their own country’s population and environment....

Climate-adaptive Planning for Angola’s Coastal Cities

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Publication Date: August 4, 2016
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In the coastal cities of Angola, the intensity and variability of climatic events such as rainstorms and floods have more than doubled over the last 60 years. For much of that period, conflict in the interior provinces was driving people to the relative safety of coastal cities – namely Cabinda, Luanda and the twin cities...

Informal settlements in urban coastal zones and adaptation to climatic variation

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Publication Date: August 4, 2016
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Many new urban migrants in developing countries and other poor families have settled in some of the most environmentally risky parts of cities.Many of these cities are located on or near the coast. These locations place these cities at greater risk from current and projected climate hazards. While the configuration of these settlements is indeed...

Informal settlements in urban coastal zones and adaptation to climatic variation

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Publication Date: August 4, 2016
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Rosa Fernandez and Jean D’Aragon’s article on slums and disaster risks, makes a strong argument that the form or morphology of these settlements has an important influence on their level of vulnerability. While the configuration of these settlements is indeed a key factor, the choice of location for housing of poor families or new migrants...

5th Interim Report – May 2015

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Publication Date: August 4, 2016
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The current report is the 5th six-monthly report covering the period from the first of November 2014 through to the end of April 2015. This period covers the first semester of the last planned year of the project. Most of the overall project objectives have been broadly met by the end of this reporting period...

Environmental vulnerability and settlement adaptation in Cabinda

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Publication Date: August 4, 2016
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Cabinda has grown rapidly in recent years, with the number of houses increasing by about 4% each year between 2012 and 2015. Many poorer people have been forced to occupy low cost land where there is a risk of flooding and erosion. Socio-economic conditions are challenging in these low income housing zones, and irregular, intense...

4th Interim Report – Nov 2014

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Publication Date: August 3, 2016
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After 27 years of civil conflict, Angola achieved peace in 2002 and only then has the country begun to address such long-term issues as adaptation to climate variability and its socioeconomic effects. Given the short length of the period in which significant meteorological and hydrological records were collected is short: 1940 to 1975 for meteorological...

3rd Interim Report – April 2014

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Publication Date: August 3, 2016
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After 27 years of civil conflict, Angola achieved peace in 2002 and only then has the country begun to address such long-term issues as adaptation to climate variability and its socioeconomic effects. Given the short length of the period in which significant meteorological and hydrological records were collected is short: 1940 to 1975 for meteorological...

Analysis of Angolan Historic Rainfall Data

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Publication Date: August 3, 2016
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This paper reports on a component of Development Workshops’ research project “Water resource management under a changing climate in Angola’s coastal settlements”. It sets out why recovery and analysis of historic rainfall data is important, as well as the challenges of using rainfall data in Africa. It shows why these difficulties are greater in the...

Environmental vulnerability and settlement adaptation in Lobito and Catumbela

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Publication Date: August 2, 2016
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Lobito’s population has increased rapidly in recent decades. Most new-comers have occupied low cost land where there is a risk of land-slides and flooding. Socio-economic conditions are challenging in these low-income housing zones. Irregular, intense rains frequently lead to flooding. Climate change may result in more frequent and intense flooding, and sea level rise will...

Urban Governance – Case of Luanda

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Author: Sylvia Croese
Publication Date: August 1, 2016
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This working paper presents the findings of the study on the process to turn around the city of Luanda, the capital of Angola.1 Decades of civil war that followed the country’s independence in 1975 saw millions of people internally displaced, large areas mined and most of the country’s physical, economic and social infrastructure and services...

Urban Governance and Turning African Ci

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Author: sylvia croese
Publication Date: August 1, 2016
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This working paper presents the findings of the study on the process to turn around the city of Luanda, the capital of Angola.1 Decades of civil war that followed the country’s independence in 1975 saw millions of people internally displaced, large areas mined and most of the country’s physical, economic and social infrastructure and services...

ONDAKA Numéro 1608 2016

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Publication Date: August 1, 2016
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A Direcção provincial da Família e Promoção da Mulher, lançou um projecto de limpeza denominado Huambo cidade limpa, apresentado durante a campanha de limpeza realizada na avenida Amílcar Cabral na cidade do Huambo.O projecto que inclui cerca de 32 mulheres vítimas de abandono pelos seus maridos, visa promover a mobilização geral das famílias e dos...

Final Report – Water Resource Management under Changing Climate in Angola‘s Coastal Settlements

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Publication Date: July 31, 2016
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This final report on the project has demonstrated that reduced vulnerability of the communities themselves can be promoted through micro-planning and co-participation with municipalities to develop climate adaptation plans and build resilience to climate change and natural disasters. The project approach can thus be used by other low-lying African coastal cities who disproportionately suffer environmental...