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Online-Ressource (1 online resource (238 pages))
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780798304047
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9780798303750
Inhalt:
Africa is one continent severely affected by the ravaging effects of global environmental change yet it is least responsible for this. The continentís rural and urban poor are particularly vulnerable to reduced agricultural production, worsening food security, increased incidence of both flooding and drought, spreading of disease and heightening risk of conflict over scarce land and water resources. As such this timely book consisting of chapters authored by scholars from multi-disciplinary backgrounds provides the reader a variety of contexts from which to understand the impacts of global environmental change and how a effected African communities are adapting and mitigating this scourge. In addition it discusses different models for mitigation and adaptation applicable to local contexts.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- CHAPTER 1 - Introduction -- GLOBAL CHANGE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE -- CLIMATE CHANGE IN AFRICA: CRITICAL ISSUES -- OUTLINE OF THIS BOOK -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- PART I - Evidence of climate change and its effects on the continent -- CHAPTER 2 - Climate change and water degradation. Challenges for sustaining human security in the Lake Chad Basin -- INTRODUCTION -- CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER DEGRADATION IN LAKE CHAD -- CAUSES OF DECREASED WATER FLOW INTO LAKE CHAD -- DECREASED WATER FLOW INTO LAKE CHAD: IMPACT ON HUMAN SECURITY -- LCBC TRANS-BORDER WATER MANAGEMENT POLICIES: ATTEMPTS AT ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE RIPARIAN POPULATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 - Rainfall variability and crop production.The maze climate change brought to rain-fed agriculture -- INTRODUCTION -- NZHELELE VALLEY CASE STUDY -- RAINFALL VARIABILITY -- RAINFALL VARIABILITY AND MAIZE PRODUCTION -- FONDWE RAINFALL VARIATION AND MAIZE PRODUCTION -- MANDALA RAINFALL VARIATION AND MAIZE PRODUCTION -- TSHAVHALOVHEDZI - MPHAILA RAINFALL VARIATION AND PRODUCTION -- RABALI RAINFALL VARIATION AND PRODUCTION -- TSHISWENDA RAINFALL VARIATION AND PRODUCTION -- TSHITUNI RAINFALL VARIATION AND MAIZE PRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 - Maize Innovation for climate change adaptation. Evidence from rural Nigeria -- INTRODUCTION -- DTM INNOVATION IN NIGERIA -- CASE STUDY OF BORNO STATE: NORTH-EAST NIGERIA -- ANALYTICAL APPROACHES APPLIED IN THE CASE STUDY -- DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS BASED ON A SURVEY IN BORNO STATE -- ADOPTERS' PERCEPTION OF THE BENEFITS OF DTM -- DETERMINANTS OF DTM ADOPTION -- CONSTRAINTS TO ADOPTION OF DTM -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
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ISBN 9780798303750
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Sprache:
Englisch
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