Abstract
Of all the widespread natural hazards with large scale human, economic and environmental impacts, flooding surpasses. In the urban areas, the threats of this hazard are substantial and call for ever more attention, which, within the contexts of sustainable human and urban development, is increasingly an important problem in social science research. Urban flooding is a relatively new hazard phenomenon, which is progressively galvanising significant concerns globally due to the economic and political significance of cities. Flood risk management, based on the UNISDR idea of living with floods rather than fighting them, provides systematic techniques for tackling this hazard. However, the insufficiency or lack of the pertinent capacities, which are fundamental to best practices in flood risk management, undermine these techniques in many developing countries (DCs), such as Nigeria and Bangladesh. This study, through a desktop review of various published materials, focusing on urban flooding and management experiences in Lagos, Dhaka and Maputo, explores the lack of these capacities. Among other issues, the idea of resilient cities and communities as well as sustainable urban development will be realistic in the DCs only if adequate attention is given to capacity development.
Highlights
Throughout history, every act of human development has a price, which is increasingly an important problem within social and sustainability sciences research
The main aim of this study is to investigate the limitations in flood risk management in the urban areas of Developing Countries (DCs), focusing on Lagos, Maputo and Dhaka
In line with academic regulations and standard on ethics and scientific quality, the authors assigned more weight to articles published by Elsevier, Science Direct, Taylor and Francis, Wiley and sons, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Nature, Sage, Science publishers, Copernicus and Springer publishers and on well acknowledged international conferences, locally published journals provided most of the information to establish the case of the study
Summary
Throughout history, every act of human development has a price, which is increasingly an important problem within social and sustainability sciences research. For example the two world wars (WW1 and WW2) were the price for growth in political interactions and interests, militarism and territorial integrity among the world powers (Lyons, 2009). Terrorism, according to few studies in the social sciences such as those of (Newman, 2006; Freeman, 2008; Krieger and Meierrieks, 2011), is possibly a price for self-awareness for some individuals who seem to act under the pretext of fighting for social and political justice. Taking human lives and causing political and social instabilities just to justify a religious, ethnic or political motive are unimaginable and beyond acceptable norms. It cam imply that some of the pathways to self-awareness and self-emancipation are misdirected and totally misguided
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