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

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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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Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo, Dr. Christian Chigozi Oriji. 2015. "What to do about Climate Change-Caused Flooding and the Associated Diseases in Rivers State of Nigeria". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - B: Geography, Environmental Science & Disaster Management GJHSS-B Volume 15 (GJHSS Volume 15 Issue B4).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

Print ISSN 0975-587X

e-ISSN 2249-460X

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November 20, 2015

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

Abiodun Oladejo
Abiodun Oladejo University of Port Harcourt
Dr. Oriji
Dr. Oriji