Chiefs and floods: hybrid governance and co-production of flood risk adaptation in Tamale, Ghana.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is changing physical and social risks facing people in African cities. Emerging awareness is beginning to stimulate a wide range of adaptive responses. These responses are playing out in a complex institutional and governance context which shape their effectiveness and legitimacy. Employing a hybrid governance approach, we investigate the development of flooding and flood protection in the context of urban development in Tamale, Ghana. We argue that the interplay between traditional and state-based authority shapes the market for land, the regulation of land use and the provision of urban services, including flood protection. Hybrid governance influences the types of knowledge applied to urban problem-solving, the legitimacy of choices made, the human and other resources tha

SUBMITTER: Agyei-Mensah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11552701 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature