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There has been an observation that while the increased incidence of floods in recent times has increased levels ofawareness and raised the tempo of flood management activities in Nigeria, there is a general lack of coordinationand integration across several important FRM systems and processes. Flood management approaches andresponses have been generally geared toward sub-sector or sub-regional optimization. There is an absence ofholistic or system thinking in urban system planning and development. There is a disconnection between FRMsystems and other subsystems of the built environment, resulting, inadvertently, in inefficient and ineffective FRMsystems. 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 theabsence of the required knowledge transfer to Nigerian experts. Meanwhile, there are several socio-culturalfeatures, characteristics as well as techno-economic and development opportunities which support the adoption ofsustainable, integrated FRM systems in Nigeria and also favor the pursuit of Blue-Green infrastructuraldevelopment approaches at relatively lower cost. Accordingly, these potentials can be optimally exploited if thereis a framework for understanding the interactions of the urban development process and FRM system in Nigeria