Collision in West Africa: Encountering Climate Change on the Gulf of Guinea

Members of the media are invited to a briefing on how sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and flooding are reshaping settlements and livelihoods across the Gulf of Guinea. Physical scientists, social scientists, landscape architects, and urban planners will share novel findings from a three-year collaboration and discuss next steps for helping coastal communities imagine and plan for more resilient futures.

Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change
Tinuola Odugbemi (University of Lagos)
Addressing mental health impacts of climate stress in Lagos coastal communities

The Future of Fisheries
Robert Paarlberg and Emmanuel Akyeampong (Harvard University)
Fishers on the Gulf of Guinea: Climate and the income-diversification imperative

Climate Adaptation and the Blue Economy
Kwasi Appeaning Addo (University of Ghana)
From ocean potential to blue gold: Scaling up Ghana’s blue economy for job creation, innovation and growth
Olatunji Adejumo (University of Lagos)
Blue economy in coastal Lagos: A local financing framework

Changing Shorelines
John Kusimi (University of Ghana)
Multi-hazard coastal risk in Ghana: A building-based damage cost assessment of flooding and erosion
Oluwasegun Babatunde Esan (University of Lagos)
Designing with water: Adaptive coastal landscapes of the Gulf of Guinea

Landscape Architecture and Climate Adaptation
Gareth Doherty and Supriya Ambwani (Harvard Graduate School of Design)
Booxhibition: An Adaptable Exhibition – This traveling exhibition, featuring photography by Adolphus Opara and design renderings based on the research findings of the collaboration, shows how landscape architecture can help the Gulf of Guinea confront sea-level rise, urban flooding, and coastal erosion with strategies shaped by climate science, public engagement, and imagination.


Questions: david_trilling@harvard.edu

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