Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - Gufu Oba

Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - Gufu Oba

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In the context of growing global concerns about climate change this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges. Drawing from rock art archaeology paleoecological data trade ancient hydrological technology vegetation social memory and historical documentation this book creates detailed reconstructions of past climate change adaptations across Sahelian Africa. It evaluates the present and future challenges to climate change adaptation in the region in terms of social memory rainfall variability environmental change and armed conflicts and examines the ways in which governance and policy drivers may undermine pastoralists' adaptive strategies. The book's scope covers the Red Sea coast Somaliland Somalia the Ogaden region of Ethiopia and northern Kenya part of the Ethiopian highlands and Eritrea areas where past climate change has been extreme and future change makes it vital to understand the dynamics of adaptation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental history human ecology geography climate change environment studies development studies pastoralism anthropology and African studies.

TITLE: Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

AUTHOR: Gufu Oba

SKU: 9781138013995

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 25/06/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 270

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 159 mm x 235 mm

WEIGHT: 522 gr

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