Confronting the challenge of Climate change on built Environment in Nigeria: Utilizing a resilient Response

Abstract

The world climate is changing as its attendant effects are now here. Nigeria, and indeed Africa may not be a major contributor to climate change, but bear the brunt of it together with the rest of the world. The implication of climate change in Nigeria is that more destruction will be added to existing dangers of poverty, disease and insecurity. The likelihood of more drought and desertification, flooding, erosion, storms and general ecological devastation will affect the environment, built space, and a large proportion of the population. The aim is to introduce the need to utilize resilience as an adaptive capacity against climate change in the built environment in Nigeria. An extensive literature review was done. The review indicated that the fight against climate change could be multi dimensional and that poverty is the greatest clog in the wheel of any form of adaptation/mitigation strategies in Nigeria. Long lasting solution, lies in building resilience across communities in the built environment. This offers to engage the citizens at the grass root in preparing for the consequences of the climatic excesses with federal/state/local governments/and relevant institutions, together with civil society organizations that may key into the program to provide the lead, organization and financing as the way to preparing resilience for the built environment for climate change risks