Current Issues in Flood Disaster: Challenges and Implications for Science and Technology to Enhance Environmental Education

Abstract

The paper is on current issues in flood disaster. The paper discussed the effects of climate variability and change on the environment. The paper examined the challenges of flood disaster and implications of flood disaster for science and technology. The paper also discussed adaptation strategies for flood disaster. The paper concluded that the challenges of flood disaster have affected people negatively in flood areas resulting in disruption of socio-economic activities and loss of properties. Suggestions/recommendations were made that government should carryout flood adaptation strategies and enforce land use control measures to meet the prevailing challenges of flood.

Flood Disaster Hazards; Causes, Impacts and Management: A State-of-the-Art Review

“…It also ranges from individual, community, to citywide adaptation strategies. Discussions on flood adaptation strategies pointed out that embankments, for instance, either concrete or sandy may be constructed to prevent water from entering residential houses [33]. Adaptation options that would be effective for flood disaster in developing nations include Environmental policy reforms, changes in urban and housing design, removal of laws that can inadvertently increase flood vulnerability [34].…”

Flooding and Flood Risk Reduction in Nigeria: Cardinal Gaps

“…Considering what has been done globally in research (mostly in China, India, UK, the US, Bangladesh and Netherlands) the specific situation of Nigeria regarding research in terms of flooding is arguably weak. The study of science and technology in Nigeria are yet to embrace environmental education and this has been identified [58].…”

“…Recent studies focus attention on the impacts of flooding and its remedies in local communities, geopolitical regions and various states within the country [27,[48][49][50][51][52]. It is argued that a more comprehensive understanding of the widespread flooding in Nigeria requires wide ranging discussions and accounts which few studies presented [12,20,[53][54][55][56][57][58]. The influence of climate change and anthropogenic activities, poor urban planning and environmental management on the widespread flooding in Nigerian cities has been extensively discussed [14,50,54,59].…”

“…Other vital tools needed to address flooding in Nigeria are community based early warning systems [56], humanitarian aids from government and private sectors [54,60] and appropriate level of preparedness and capacity building [57]. The need for science and technology to embrace environmental education in Nigeria is posited [58]. In [27,48,61,62], flood hazard mapping and assessment of vulnerabilities of lives and properties to flooding are important procedures factors which play key roles towards building community resilience to flooding.…”