Building coastal resilience through an integrated approach: Lessons from Ghana

The document highlights the lack of a comprehensive coastal climate risk policy in Ghana and argues for the integration of community knowledge and multi-stakeholder engagement to achieve effective coastal resilience.

• Climate change in Ghana's coastal regions is causing the loss of livelihoods through the destruction of fishing equipment and infrastructure by high ocean waves, as well as the degradation of fish breeding grounds due to saline intrusion into freshwater systems.
• Ghana lacks a comprehensive policy or development framework for managing climate-related risks in coastal areas, resulting in a top-down planning approach that lacks the local ownership necessary for effective grassroots disaster risk reduction.
• Effective coastal resilience and climate compatible development are achieved by integrating community knowledge, employing multi-stakeholder engagement, and ensuring that the concerns of vulnerable populations inform research and policy formulation.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (2014). Building coastal resilience through an integrated approach: Lessons from Ghana. https://cdkn.org/resource/inside-story-coastal-resilience-through-an-integrated-approach-ghana

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Building coastal resilience through an integrated approach: Lessons from Ghana. 2014. https://cdkn.org/resource/inside-story-coastal-resilience-through-an-integrated-approach-ghana.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetwork2014building, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Building coastal resilience through an integrated approach: Lessons from Ghana}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2014}, month = sep, url = {https://cdkn.org/resource/inside-story-coastal-resilience-through-an-integrated-approach-ghana}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }