2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Urban Vulnerability to Climate Change and Natural Hazards in Nigeria
Authors : Adeniyi Sulaiman Gbadegesin, Felix Bayode Olorunfemi, Usman Adebimpe Raheem
Published in: Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Climate change and global warming have attained global dimensions with the recurrent discussions at the
United Nations
(UN) and in other international meetings. Global climate change, driven largely by anthropogenic activities, is a growing threat to human wellbeing in developing and industrialized nations alike. Significant harm from climate change is already occurring, and further damages are likely (Gwary 2008; Barnett/ Adger 2007; CHGE 2005; IPCC 2001a). Extreme weather events resulting in hurricanes, windstorms, tornadoes, droughts, fires, floods and other weather-related hazards account for a large proportion of the increased losses from natural disasters over the last decades. More alarming even than the size of past losses is the trend for losses to increase. More than 1.5 million people died in the past two decades because of extreme climatic events, and more than ninety per cent of those deaths have occurred in developing countries (IFRC-RCS 2002; Munich Re 2003).