The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands write by A.J. Dietz. This book was released on 2006-04-11. The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sahelian West Africa has recovered from the disastrous droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. People have learned to adapt to risk and uncertainty in fragile dryland environments. They, as well as global change scientists, are worried about the impact of climate change on these West African drylands. What do the experiences of the last thirty years say about the preparedness for higher temperatures, lower rainfall, and even more variability? Detailed studies on Dryland West Africa as a whole, and on Burkina Faso, Mali and Northern Ghana in particular show an advanced coping behaviour and increased adaptation, but also major differences in vulnerability and coping potential. Climate change preparedness programmes have only just started and require more robust support, and more specific social targeting, for a population which is rapidly growing, even more rapidly urbanising, and further integrating in a globalised economy. This book is the first of its kind with a comprehensive analysis of climate change experiences in West African drylands, with attention for pathways of change and the diversity of adaptation options available. This book is of interest to scientists studying global and climate change, especially dealing with issues of adaptation. Social scientists, economists, geographers and policy makers concerned with West Africa should also read this book.
Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa
Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa write by A. J. Dietz. This book was released on 2001. Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa
Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa write by T. Dietz. This book was released on 1998. Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa write by Joseph A. Yaro. This book was released on 2016-04-12. Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents conceptual and empirical discussions of adaptation to climate change/variability in West Africa. Highlighting different countries’ experiences in adaptation by different socio-economic groups and efforts at building their adaptive capacity, it offers readers a holistic understanding of adaptation on the basis of contextual and generic sources of adaptive capacity. Focusing on adaptation to climate change/variability is critical because the developmental challenges West Africa faces are increasingly intertwined with its climate history. Today, climate change is a major developmental issue for agrarian rural communities with high percentages of the population earning a living directly or indirectly from the natural environment. This makes them highly vulnerable to climate-driven ecological change, in addition to threats in the broader political economic context. It is imperative that rural people adapt to climate change, but their ability to successfully do so may be limited by competing risks and vulnerabilities. As such, elucidating those vulnerabilities and sources of strength with regard to the adaptive capacities needed to support successful adaptation and avoid maladaptation is critical for future policy formulation. Though the empirical discussion is geographically based on West Africa, its applicability in terms of the processes, structures, needs, strategies, and recommendations for policy transcends the region and provides useful lessons for understanding adaptation broadly in the developing world.
Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands
Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands write by Mahesh K. Gaur. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in dryland regions. Global change is more than just climate change and the ramifications of changing trade patterns (geopolitical and economic aspects), the shift to the market economy, demographic factors (population growth, urbanization and re-settlement), receive attention here. Land use change specialists, policy makers and natural resource management agencies will find the book very useful. Chapters focus on examples that are drawn from a number of sources including previously unpublished studies on the impact of climate change, markets and economics on pastoralist and dryland farming households. The key focus is to provide readers with insights into the real world implications of change (including an analysis of the drivers of change) on these vulnerable groups within dryland societies. The role of humans as agents of these changes is canvassed. A regional analysis of the world's drylands is also performed including those in Australia, Argentina, India, North America, China, North Africa, Central Asia and Southern Africa.
