Climate change, floods and water supply in Angolan coastal cities
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2014-02
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Development Workshop Angola
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Planning of human settlements on the Angolan coast should incorporate flooding risks and impacts of soil erosion. “Gaps" in data from 40 years’ war, and loss of 30 years of meteorological information, coincide with the recent period of accelerated climate change. Development Workshop’s research team has been recovering and analysing historical rainfall data from old Angolan archives, libraries in Lisbon and London, and digitizing the information. Large coastal cities in Angola are located at the mouth of river basins, making settlements at particularly high risk of local climatic changes. The presentation includes maps drawn from new databases.
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COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT, SOUTH OF SAHARA, WEATHER STATIONS, WATER RESOURCES, DATABASES, DRINKING WATER, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE, HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, SEA LEVEL RISE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, DISASTER PREVENTION