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 2017-08-30. 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 Chapters focus on examples that are drawn from a number of sources including previously unpublished studies on the impact of climate change, markets and economics on pastoralist and dryland farming households.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.
The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands
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.
The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands
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 2014-01-15. The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands 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 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.
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Loss and Damage from Climate Change - 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 Loss and Damage from Climate Change write by Reinhard Mechler. This book was released on 2018-11-28. Loss and Damage from Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and policy linked to this discourse and articulating its multiple concepts, principles and methods. Written by leading researchers and practitioners, it identifies practical and evidence-based policy options to inform the discourse and climate negotiations. With climate-related risks on the rise and impacts being felt around the globe has come the recognition that climate mitigation and adaptation may not be enough to manage the effects from anthropogenic climate change. This recognition led to the creation of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage in 2013, a climate policy mechanism dedicated to dealing with climate-related effects in highly vulnerable countries that face severe constraints and limits to adaptation. Endorsed in 2015 by the Paris Agreement and effectively considered a third pillar of international climate policy, debate and research on Loss and Damage continues to gain enormous traction. Yet, concepts, methods and tools as well as directions for policy and implementation have remained contested and vague. Suitable for researchers, policy-advisors, practitioners and the interested public, the book furthermore: • discusses the political, legal, economic and institutional dimensions of the issue• highlights normative questions central to the discourse • provides a focus on climate risks and climate risk management. • presents salient case studies from around the world.
