Unsustainable urban development in the face of sea level rise in Angola
The cases of the Camuxiba Neighbourhood (Luanda) and Porto Amboim (South Kwanza)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13237523Keywords:
Urban growth, Rising sea levels, Untenable, Camuxiba neighbourhood, Porto Amboim BeachAbstract
The subject of the study is the disturbance caused by urban development in contact with the sea, immersed in a process of rising sea levels and, consequently, of waves. This work focuses on two places with different urban growth dynamics: one based on the occupation of space without control or supervision, in Bairro da Camuxiba (Luanda); and the other with a more ordered urban fabric, in Praia do Porto Amboim, between the EN-100 and the Atlantic Ocean. The methodology is exploratory and descriptive, based on the use of
satellite images available in Google Earth Pro™. In Camuxiba, the images cover a window
between 2001 and 2023, in Porto Amboim only 2010 to 2023. The results show that, despite different growth models, growth is unsustainable and growth is doomed to failure, with environmental and social aspects being the most affected by unsustainability.
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