Seasonal Flooding Vulnerability, Cause, Impact and Coping Strategies in Southern Ethiopia Urban Areas. The Case of Sawla Town - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seasonal Flooding Vulnerability, Cause, Impact and Coping Strategies in Southern Ethiopia Urban Areas. The Case of Sawla Town write by Aman Asefa Senbeto. This book was released on 2018-11-27. Seasonal Flooding Vulnerability, Cause, Impact and Coping Strategies in Southern Ethiopia Urban Areas. The Case of Sawla Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Academic Paper from the year 2012 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Miscellaneous, grade: 4/4, Ethiopian Civil Service University, language: English, abstract: Sawla town is geographically inscribed by the chains of mountain range from south to west, and from west to north. And the main town is dissected by two crossing rivers namely, ‘Womba and Cholea’. Due to increasing demographic dynamics of the town accompanied by rapid urbanization, demand of land for housing is higher than that of the available recognized land under the municipal authority; hence informal settlement patterns are becoming the usual trend especially towards ecologically sensitive boundaries of the town which is characterized by mountain hill sides, sloppy forest land and gully structures and the two river plains. As a result of deforestation and impermeable coverings by construction, the capacity of the natural land feature to infiltrate and percolate rain precipitation is decreasing from time to time with the subsequent increase in surface runoff conveyed to water bodies across drainages and urban storm ways. This trend of increase in surface runoff is featuring Sawla town by seasonal flooding calamity with a serious social, economic and environmental impact especially encountered by poor vulnerable communities. Therefore the purpose of this study is to assess seasonal flooding vulnerability, cause and impact in Sawla town by then suggesting feasible recommendation to mitigate the impact of seasonal flooding on the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of the town. A descriptive research type was employed to describe the cause and impacts of seasonal flooding on vulnerable communities of the town. Reliable data have been gathered from 163 (93% response rate) randomly selected respondents founded from four kebeles (Zirko, Botre, Kera and Kusti) of the town through questionnaire, interview and observation. Based on the data obtained from the field and secondary data sets, urbanization and informal settlement, deforestation, rainfall variability as climatic change and inadequacy of infrastructure are identified causes of seasonal flooding in the town. This seasonal flooding trend produced serious social, economic and environmental damages in Sawla town.
Managing Ethiopian Cities in an Era of Rapid Urbanisation
Managing Ethiopian Cities in an Era of Rapid Urbanisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Ethiopian Cities in an Era of Rapid Urbanisation write by Meine Pieter van Dijk. This book was released on 2008. Managing Ethiopian Cities in an Era of Rapid Urbanisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cropping Systems, Land Tenure and Social Diversity in Wenchi, Ghana
Cropping Systems, Land Tenure and Social Diversity in Wenchi, Ghana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cropping Systems, Land Tenure and Social Diversity in Wenchi, Ghana write by Samuel Adjei-Nsiah. This book was released on 2006. Cropping Systems, Land Tenure and Social Diversity in Wenchi, Ghana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. However, there is still considerable scope for further development of these self-organised innovations.
State of the World's Cities 2010/2011
State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 write by . This book was released on 2010. State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One billion people worldwide live in slums and that figure is predicted to reach 2 billion by 2030. This new volume from UN-HABITAT unpacks the complex social and economic issues using the novel conceptual framework of the urban divide.
The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa
The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa write by Charles Teller. This book was released on 2011-03-04. The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The heated Malthusian-Bosrupian debates still rage over consequences of high population growth, rapid urbanization, dense rural populations and young age structures in the face of drought, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, instability and the global economic crisis. However, while facile generalizations about the lack of demographic change and lack of progress in meeting the MDGs in sub-Saharan Africa are commonplace, they are often misleading and belie the socio-cultural change that is occurring among a vanguard of more educated youth. Even within Ethiopia, the second largest country at the Crossroads of Africa and the Middle East, different narratives emerge from analysis of longitudinal, micro-level analysis as to how demographic change and responses are occurring, some more rapidly than others. The book compares Ethiopia with other Africa countries, and demonstrates the uniqueness of an African-type demographic transition: a combination of poverty-related negative factors (unemployment, disease, food insecurity) along with positive education, health and higher age-of-marriage trends that are pushing this ruggedly rural and land-locked population to accelerate the demographic transition and stay on track to meet most of the MDGs. This book takes great care with the challenges of inadequate data and weak analytical capacity to research this incipient transition, trying to unravel some of the complexities in this vulnerable Horn of Africa country: A slowly declining population growth rates with rapidly declining child mortality, very high chronic under-nutrition, already low urban fertility but still very high rural fertility; and high population-resource pressure along with rapidly growing small urban places”
