Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa

Sukaina Bharwani; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa; Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100538

Journal article / This article highlights the benefits of a co-creative, narrative-based methodology used to solicit residents' input for building resilience to floods in Africa.

28 January 2025 / About Adaptation, Climate services and Disaster Risk

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A person walks across stepping stones in a flooded street in Kihoto, an informal settlement affected by recurring floods.

Beyond blankets: how lack of official support increases vulnerability during disasters

Feature / Kihoto residents in Kenya face ongoing displacement, health risks and economic hardship as floods worsen, underscoring the need for long-term solutions.

26 September 2024 / About Adaptation, Climate services, Disaster Risk, Participation and Sanitation

Classroom in Nairobi, full of students in blue shirts, sitting down watching a presentation on the wall about creative ways to address health issues, given by an ACT-employee standing in the end of the room

Using creative methods for public health messaging

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Resilient Planet Initiative

Project / The Resilient Planet Initiative aims to help those living in informal settlements in Eastern Africa adapt to the growing challenges posed by climate change.

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Dead drowned bare tree trunks emerging from a lake surface on a blue-gray sky, with trees at the horizon line.

Vulnerability to displacement: the case of Kihoto, Kenya

SEI working paper / The authors provide an overview of the socio-economic impacts and displacement outcomes on the informal settlement of Kihoto, Kenya, post-flooding.

25 June 2024 / About Disaster Risk

Close-up of a woman's hand holding a ladle, stirring a large metal pot filled with stew, set over a basic, open metal stove on a concrete floor.

Household carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in a large African city: an unquantified public health burden?

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An abstract, colourful painting fills the frame, with strokes of red, yellow, purple, and brown. An eye has been painted in the middle. In the foreground, a Black hand holds a paintbrush loaded with paint.

Transdisciplinary research as a means of protecting human health, ecosystems and climate by engaging people to act on air pollution

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A landscape view of the Manohara informal settlement - Kathmandu, Nepal. There is a waterway in the central foreground, with buildings in the distance either side of it. Himalayas in the background.

Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: a post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand

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