Abstract

There has been an observation that while the increased incidence of floods in recent times has increased levels of
awareness and raised the tempo of flood management activities in Nigeria, there is a general lack of coordination
and integration across several important FRM systems and processes. Flood management approaches and
responses have been generally geared toward sub-sector or sub-regional optimization. There is an absence of
holistic or system thinking in urban system planning and development. There is a disconnection between FRM
systems and other subsystems of the built environment, resulting, inadvertently, in inefficient and ineffective FRM
systems. While enormous resources and investment have been put into a number of structural FRM measures,
there has been a limited adaptation of these technologies to the Nigerian socio-technical environment as well the
absence of the required knowledge transfer to Nigerian experts. Meanwhile, there are several socio-cultural
features, characteristics as well as techno-economic and development opportunities which support the adoption of
sustainable, integrated FRM systems in Nigeria and also favor the pursuit of Blue-Green infrastructural
development approaches at relatively lower cost. Accordingly, these potentials can be optimally exploited if there
is a framework for understanding the interactions of the urban development process and FRM system in Nigeria