What to do about Climate Change-Caused Flooding and the Associated Diseases in Rivers State of Nigeria

Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo; Dr. Christian Chigozi Oriji

Authors

Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo
Dr. Christian Chigozi Oriji

Keywords:

climate change-caused flooding, associated diseases, rivers state, Nigeria

Abstract

The prime focus of the study is to explain what to do about climate change-caused flooding and the associated diseases in Rivers State of Nigeria. In doing so, this work gives an overview of climate change-caused flooding and effects of flooding on people in flooded areas, as well as explains flooding associated diseases in Rivers State. Besides this, it further proffers legislative, short-term and long-term measures that will help reduce if not eliminate flooding and its associated diseases in Rivers State of today, and indeed of the future.

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What to do about Climate Change-Caused Flooding and the Associated Diseases in Rivers State of Nigeria. (2015). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 15(B4), 29-34. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1567

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