Gender, Poverty and Climate Change in Nigeria
Gender, Poverty and Climate Change in Nigeria作者机构：Department of Geography School of Arts and Social Sciences FCT (Federal Capital Territory) College of Education Zuba Abuja 23401 or 110001 or 00176 Nigeria
出 版 物：《Journal of Earth Science and Engineering》 (地球科学与工程（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2014年第4卷第3期
页 面：134-140页
学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 03[法学] 07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 030301[法学-社会学] 0706[理学-大气科学]
主 题：Gender poverty climate change.
摘 要：The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of climate change on gender and poverty in Nigeria. The paper relies mainly on secondary data generated by private individuals, government and non-government bodies. From these sources, the paper reveals that climate change has resulted in higher temperature increase frequency on extreme weather events in the country, such as storms or record drought resulting in the dislocation of agricultural areas and its consequence food shortage. Women are the hardest hit because they produce food and do not have control over land to make most communities vulnerable to flooding as seen in Lokoja, Bauchi and Kaduna among others in Nigeria. Flooding has increased the frequency of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, etc.. Women who clean the mess left behind after the flood are mostly affected. It is also revealed that climate change has resulted in great economic losses, with most of the losses to be in agricultural production, the engine of growth and the mainstay of the economy. Finally, the paper suggests measures such as reduction in deforestation by provision of alternative source of energy and environmental friendly industrial activities will help reduce the rate of discharge of carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere.
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