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Apr 23, 2024 · African megacities like Lagos, Nigeria (with 21 million residents) and Cairo, Egypt (with 10 million residents) are experiencing significant temperature increases due to the urban heat island...
Sep 5, 2023 · Urban informal settlements struggle with degraded and sometimes nonexistent infrastructure (such as water, sewage, and drainage systems) and service provision (health, education), and these shortcomings are aggravated by urban climate-related hazards like flooding and heat spikes.
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Nov 15, 2022 · What is less well known is the growing impact of climate change on urban areas, which are already under pressure, especially demographically: no less than 70% of African cities are highly...
Dec 2, 2015 · These rising problems are related to efficiency and inclusion: lack of basic services, dysfunctional land and housing markets, underdeveloped manufacturing, insufficient transport...
Nov 14, 2022 · Approximately 56 percent of urban residents —double the global average—live in slum housing, which is defined as lack of durable housing, unaffordable access to safe drink water and adequate...
Dec 22, 2022 · Anthropogenic climate change, deforestation, agriculture, urbanization and large water infrastructures have intensified the severity of recent droughts in several regions, including Brazil 1,...
