Policy Alignment Matrix for Hydrological Hazards in Nigeria's Niger Delta Region

A 5.5 KB XLS file summarizing an alignment matrix across six national policy documents. The dataset, authored by Obroma O. Agumagu and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, analyzes policy attention to hydrological hazards and human activity in the Niger Delta region. It was last updated on March 25, 2026.

Use Cases

• Assessing policy coherence across sectors based on the alignment matrix structure.
• Identifying gaps in attention to hydrological hazards like sea level rise as indicated in the description.
• Comparing the consideration of petroleum policy versus other sectors for land use management.
• Analyzing the support for various sectors within the national policy framework.

Strengths

• Explicitly licensed as CC-BY-4.0 for open reuse.
• Focuses on a specific geographic region (Niger Delta) and policy context.
• Analyzes six distinct national policy documents.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Obroma O. Agumagu via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely involves manual or computational content analysis of policy documents.

Time Range

The policy documents analyzed likely cover a specific period, but this is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:38:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nigeria, specifically the Niger Delta region.