Yenagoa, the riverine capital of Bayelsa State in Nigeria's Niger Delta, sits at the intersection of two compounding environmental stressors: climate-induced flooding and five decades of oil- and gas-related pollution. This paper applies the environmental justice (EJ) framework comprising distributive, procedural, and...
I. Godspower, S. Asomaku, Abiye Tomquin· International Journal of Adv...· 0 citations
The Niger Delta, Africa's largest deltaic and mangrove ecosystem, is increasingly exposed to compound coastal flooding the co-occurrence or successive interaction of fluvial discharge, pluvial runoff, storm surge, tidal elevation, and relative sea-level rise (RSLR) driven by anthropogenic climate change, land subsidenc...
S. Asomaku, I. Godspower, Perri T. Owunari et al.· International journal of res...· 0 citations
The Niger Delta combines recurrent riverine and pluvial flooding, coastal erosion, sea-level rise, wetland degradation, rapid urbanisation and infrastructure deficits with long histories of community adaptation. Disaster risk reduction in this setting is often framed as a choice between formal engineering and Indigenou...
S. Asomaku, I. Godspower, Perri T. Owunari et al.· Asian Journal of Advanced Re...· 0 citations
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