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Community-responsive adaptation to flooding in Kibera, Kenya
Much of the world’s existing and future population will live in slums, where the twin trajectories of rapidurbanisation and increasedflooding driven by climate change collide. Few spatial planning policies currently addressthis issue in practice. Poorly planned relocation from slum areas has caused conflict and insecurity, while large-scaleinfrastructural solutions for reducingflood risk are prohibitively expensive. There is a need to consider how localadaptation measures for increasing resilience toflooding can complement other structural and policy measures. Thispaper describes and evaluates autonomous, market-based and public-policy-driven structural and non-structuraladaptation approaches toflooding in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. The analysis employsa novel survey data set from 963 households in Kibera and extensive community and institutional stakeholderconsultation. Results of the consultation demonstrate how autonomous adaptation at the household level isdisincentivised by insecure housing tenure, while public-policy-driven approaches are constrained by the lack ofeffective community engagement. Combining the lessons from this analysis with 10 years of experience indeveloping public space and infrastructure projects in Kibera, the paper builds the case for an approach to‘community-responsive adaptation’to urbanflooding that negotiates these limitations ; QC 20200918
Community-responsive adaptation to flooding in Kibera, Kenya
Much of the world’s existing and future population will live in slums, where the twin trajectories of rapidurbanisation and increasedflooding driven by climate change collide. Few spatial planning policies currently addressthis issue in practice. Poorly planned relocation from slum areas has caused conflict and insecurity, while large-scaleinfrastructural solutions for reducingflood risk are prohibitively expensive. There is a need to consider how localadaptation measures for increasing resilience toflooding can complement other structural and policy measures. Thispaper describes and evaluates autonomous, market-based and public-policy-driven structural and non-structuraladaptation approaches toflooding in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. The analysis employsa novel survey data set from 963 households in Kibera and extensive community and institutional stakeholderconsultation. Results of the consultation demonstrate how autonomous adaptation at the household level isdisincentivised by insecure housing tenure, while public-policy-driven approaches are constrained by the lack ofeffective community engagement. Combining the lessons from this analysis with 10 years of experience indeveloping public space and infrastructure projects in Kibera, the paper builds the case for an approach to‘community-responsive adaptation’to urbanflooding that negotiates these limitations ; QC 20200918
Community-responsive adaptation to flooding in Kibera, Kenya
Mulligan, Joseph (author) / Harper, Jamilla (author) / Kipkemboi, Pascal (author) / Ngobi, Bukonola (author) / Collins, Anna (author)
2017-01-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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