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DOI	10.1007/s10708-021-10395-5
	Pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe state, Nigeria
	Eze, Jude Nwafor; Onokala, Patience Chinyelu
通讯作者	Eze, JN (corresponding author), Natl Cereals Res Inst, Farming Syst Res Programme, Bida 912101, Niger State, Nigeria.
来源期刊	GEOJOURNAL
ISSN	0343-2521
EISSN	1572-9893
出版年	2021
英文摘要	The study evaluates the degree and pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe State, Nigeria. Making the right decisions and efficient resources allocation to reduce household vulnerability to desertification requires an understanding of the factors that make a society vulnerable to environmental change. Strategies to reduce the impact of desertification in Nigeria have often been without understanding the spatial pattern of household vulnerability to the hazard. The study used the Integrated Household Vulnerability Index to proffer a solution to household vulnerability to desertification in the study area. The indicators of vulnerability (exposure, adaptive capacity, and sensitivity), were calculated to determine the pattern of household vulnerability to desertification. The study adopted an experimental survey design and the method utilized for this study was a questionnaire administrated to 400 households in the study area. The household vulnerability levels identified were 4, which include very high vulnerability, high vulnerability, low vulnerability and very low vulnerability. The spatial pattern of the household vulnerability levels in the study area tends to increase northward and decreases southward. The spatial pattern is due to a higher percentage of the total households with more wealth, technology and infrastructure to cope with desertification in the southern part than in the northern part of the study area. Therefore, the need to integrate the measures of desertification adaptation options into the development process, based on the spatial pattern of household vulnerability. These measures are poverty reduction, alternative sources of energy; enhance food security through good agricultural practices and development of cattle ranches.
英文关键词	Desertification Vulnerability Adaptive Capacity Exposure Sensitivity
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000624401100001
WOS类目	Geography
WOS研究方向	Geography
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/353017
作者单位	[Eze, Jude Nwafor] Natl Cereals Res Inst, Farming Syst Res Programme, Bida 912101, Niger State, Nigeria; [Onokala, Patience Chinyelu] Univ Nigeria, Dept Geog, Nsukka, Nigeria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eze, Jude Nwafor,Onokala, Patience Chinyelu. Pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe state, Nigeria[J],2021.
APA	Eze, Jude Nwafor,&Onokala, Patience Chinyelu.(2021).Pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe state, Nigeria.GEOJOURNAL.
MLA	Eze, Jude Nwafor,et al."Pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe state, Nigeria".GEOJOURNAL (2021).