COASTAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN DAKAR

The report uses surveys and workshops with stakeholders in Dakar to assess how climate change risks are perceived and which adaptation strategies are most acceptable. It finds that while risks are seen as immediate, climate change is a low political priority compared to public services and health. Stakeholders prefer nature-based solutions and risk governance over hard infrastructure, though administrative and financial constraints are seen as major barriers to implementation.

• Stakeholders in Dakar perceive climate change as an immediate threat, with over 80% agreeing that it is already occurring, yet they view the risks as being psychologically distant, perceiving higher threats to future generations, ecosystems, and other developing countries than to themselves.
• Despite high levels of personal experience with coastal flooding and erosion, climate change is ranked as a low political priority in Dakar, placing 6th behind public services, agriculture, health, urban planning, employment, and crime.
• When evaluating a 1 in 25-year extreme coastal event—estimated to cause USD$45 million in damages and affect 38,000 people—stakeholders rated the risk as 'unacceptable' with an average risk score of 41.7.
• Nature-based solutions and institutional measures like risk governance are the most preferred adaptation strategies due to high environmental and complexity scores, whereas hard infrastructure (dikes and sea walls) and insurance are the least desirable.
• There is a discrepancy between the perceived effectiveness of nature-based solutions, which stakeholders rated highest, and their actual prioritisation, where they ranked third. This is attributed to the long timescales required for these solutions to become effective.
• The primary barriers to implementing adaptation in Dakar are identified as administrative and political effort, followed by financial constraints and timescales.

APA

Markanday, A., de Murieta, E. S., Aniel-Quiroga, Í., Briones, A., Losada, Í., Toimil, A., & Torres, S. (2021). COASTAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN DAKAR. Basque Centre for Climate Change. https://www.bc3research.org/h6T8Uy8Nm4gFs0O/20220211083138595637546.pdf

Chicago

Markanday, Ambika, Elisa Sainz de Murieta, Íñigo Aniel-Quiroga, Andrea Briones, Íñigo Losada, Alexandra Toimil, and Saúl Torres. COASTAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN DAKAR. Basque Centre for Climate Change, 2021. https://www.bc3research.org/h6T8Uy8Nm4gFs0O/20220211083138595637546.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{markanday2021coastal, author = {Markanday, Ambika and de Murieta, Elisa Sainz and Aniel-Quiroga, Íñigo and Briones, Andrea and Losada, Íñigo and Toimil, Alexandra and Torres, Saúl}, title = {{COASTAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN DAKAR}}, institution = {Basque Centre for Climate Change}, year = {2021}, month = jul, url = {https://www.bc3research.org/h6T8Uy8Nm4gFs0O/20220211083138595637546.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }