Adaptation Of Climate And Simplifying Informal
Settlements
ADAPTATION OF CLIMATE AND STANDARDIZING INFORMAL
SETTLEMENTS IN ELDORET
BY
Caroline Jepkemboi Cheplong
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JULY, 2015
ABSTRACT
Due to the progressive development of human societies, their ecological and
environmental influence has been steadily increasing. The spatial expansion and
higher population and housing density of cities with its multiplier effect on land use
and land cover change (LUCC) have been recognized as the most important aspects of
cities climate change which is triggered by the need for urban services provision for
the influx of human population. The shortages of housing in particular, and other
urban services provision is the fundamental cause and effects of development of
illegal and informal settlements. With analysis from empirical study in Eldoret town,
the study discusses the need for urban land regularization as a requisite to combat the
driving forces for formation of informal settlements and its impacts on cities climate.
After presenting a series of concepts and definitions related to urban land informality
and illegality, standardization and tenure security from the literature, we then discuss
the data methods for the study. A detail of the research results focusing on the nature
and the impacts of informal and illegal settlement in both the city centre and the
hinterlands using the UN Habitat Slum indicators is presented. We conclude on
implication cities climate change dynamics