Posted - 8th November 2022
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The coast of Ghana has unplanned, uncontrolled, and
unregulated physical development. This, coupled with climate variability and
poor sanitation, increases the risk associated with flooding in low-lying
coastal communities. Coastal zones are influenced by factors such as tides,
breaking waves, currents, bathymetry, sea level rise, storm, beach geology and
topography. The complex interaction among these factors results in climate-induced
hazards, such as flooding that transport polluted water to coastal communities
and spreads diseases such as diarrhoea.
The C2R-CD project is employing a modelling approach
to achieve two of its goals; (i)generating flood risk and land use/land cover
maps and, (ii) project sea level rise and storm surges in the project study
areas. Long-term data series are being generated based on internationally
accepted protocols for analysis.
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