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This chapter presents the adaptation baseline for flooding caused by extreme rains, sea level rise, and high tides brought on by climate change in the municipality of Maputo (1.1 million inhabitants in 2007, 347 km2). Adaptation measures were ascertained over the 57.4 km2 exposed to regular flooding through interviews with district and neighborhood officers and on-site inspections. The size of the areas exposed to flooding (16 % of the administrative surface), their dispersion in 21 fragments and the fact that many measures are not detectable by means of surveys has complicated the work. The importance of adaptation is defined for each exposed area on the basis of the physical, economic, social, and health consequences of its absence and is expressed as a figure that can be used in risk equations. A focus group set up with members of the environmental directorate of the municipality of Maputo identified short, medium, and long-term measures, prioritized those measures according to five criteria, and discussed the mainstreaming of adaptation in planning tools.
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Tiepolo, M. (2014). Ongoing and Future Flood Adaptation Measures in the Municipality of Maputo. In: Macchi, S., Tiepolo, M. (eds) Climate Change Vulnerability in Southern African Cities. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00672-7_13
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