New Climaccess paper published

Mobility Disruptions in Accra: Recurrent Flooding, Fragile Infrastructure and Climate Change

by Manja Andreasen, Jytte Agergaard, Lasse Møller-Jensen, Martin Oteng-Ababio and Gerald Albert Baeribameng Yiran
Sustainability, 2022, 14

This paper analyzes the mobility disruptions experienced by urban residents in relation to heavy precipitation and flooding of roads. The empirical focus is Accra, Ghana, a rapidly growing African city with discernible challenges in its transport system and a longstanding history of recurrent flood hazards, which are likely to be exacerbated by climate change in the future. In a context where there is very little mobility data available from official sources, the paper utilizes data from a large mobility survey (n = 1053) conducted through in-person interviews in July–August 2021 in 10 selected neighborhoods in Accra’s sprawling periphery.

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