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Climate Change-Induced Flood Disaster Policy Communication Issues for Local Community Adaptation Resilience Management in Uganda: Climate Information Services for Effective National Flood Risk Assessment Decision Communication

Climate Change-Induced Flood Disaster Policy Communication Issues for Local Community Adaptation Resilience Management in Uganda: Climate Information Services for Effective National Flood Risk Assessment Decision Communication
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Author(s): Wilson Truman Okaka (Kyambogo University, Uganda)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 20
Source title: Decision Support Methods for Assessing Flood Risk and Vulnerability
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ahmed Karmaoui (Southern Center for Culture and Sciences (SCCS), Morocco)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9771-1.ch011

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Abstract

Effective climate change and disaster policy communication services are vital for enhancing the adaptive resilience capacity of the vulnerable local communities in poor countries like Uganda. This chapter focuses on the effectiveness of the Ugandan national climate change and disaster policy information communication strategies in addressing national flooding disaster risks, highlights the recent trends of knowledge based responses to climate change induced floods, assesses the impact of the flood on the socio-economic well-being of local households and communities, and determines the vulnerability issues with corresponding adaptation strategies to floods in the flood prone country. Climate change flood risks have continued to exact huge socio-economic loss and damage effects due to the vulnerability and weak adaptation strategies to floods. The national meteorological services tend to forecast seasonal flood events; some flood forcing factors; and the impact of floods on social, economic, ecological, and physical infrastructure are on the rise in some parts of the country.

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