As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, IOM explored how climate plays a role in the UN-led Saameynta Joint Programme in Somalia. In this context, climate change is increasingly recognized as a multiplier of insecurity and fragility, where climate-related sudden and slow-onset disasters are driving people to leave their land and migrate. While migrating allows people to find alternative livelihoods and enhance their climate resilience, it can also be associated with instances of maladaptation to climate change. As such, this case highlights durable solutions in climate-driven urban sprawl in Baidoa.  

1) Prof. Ngana, why did you launch this training unit on land issues at the University of Bangui? What needs does the training meet?

It was NELGA that motivated us. I am the Focal Point for NELGA in the Central African Republic. As part of the implementation of its structure in Central African universities, NELGA had launched a survey to revise the curriculum of land governance.

1) Prof. Ngana, pourquoi avoir lancé cette unité de formation sur les questions foncières à l’Université de Bangui ? À quels besoins la formation répond-elle ?

C’est NELGA qui nous a motivés. Je suis le Point Focal pour NELGA en République centrafricaine. Dans le cadre de la mise en place de sa structure dans les universités d’Afrique centrale, NELGA avait lancé une enquête pour réviser le curriculum de l’enseignement de la gouvernance foncière.

Traditional leaders assign land giving little consideration to spatial planning for long-term, sustainable settlement. People are settled in places unsuitable for human habitation. And climate change will bring added volatility and exposure.

En périphérie de la Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM), il semble qu’on soit incapable de freiner l’étalement urbain, que ce soit dans Lanaudière, les Basses-Laurentides ou sur la Rive-Sud, en Montérégie.

Par: Robert Dutrisac*

Date: 05 septembre 2016

Source: Al Huffington Post

Par Mostafa kheireddine, Urbaniste senior et chercheur en sciences de la ville