Overview
- Synthesizes 5 years of research to assess how coastal communities in Tanzania can adapt to climate change impacts and implement their own decisions
- Applies a holistic approach to understanding human-nature interactions to adopt a conceptual model of socio-ecological systems
- Analyzes gender dynamics as a key to understand social-ecological systems and resilience perspectives
Part of the book series: Springer Climate (SPCL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Conclusions and Synthesis
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Climate change in Tanzania
- Tanzanian Coastal resources
- Climate variability
- Sea level rise
- Climate vulnerability
- Climate resilience of Tanzania
- Coastal communities in Tanzania
- Coastal resources in Zanzibar
- Coastal erosion
- Natural resources management
- Tanzanian coastal resources
- Norad in Tanzania
- climate change
- natural resources and energy economics
- marine and freshwater sciences
About this book
The book begins by describing the biophysical and socio-economic characteristics of the Tanzanian coastal environment, then discusses the impacts of climate change on coastal resource governance, community vulnerability, and livelihood security. Then, intervention strategies are offered as a means for local communities to not only adapt to climate change impacts, but also to engage in decision-making processes to assess vulnerabilities and address challenges and limitations through educated measures. The final chapters discuss the vulnerability and adaptation of coastal communities to climate change impacts to assess how livelihoods are constructed in response to impacts, and summarize the key findings to determine the best adaptation strategies to improve adaptive capacity and reduce socio-economic vulnerability.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Ian Bryceson is a Professor at the Department for International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University ofLife Sciences. He completed his PhD in marine ecology at the University of Dar es Salaam in 1977. He has conducted research and published extensively on marine and coastal management, fisheries, aquaculture and conservation in eastern Africa, the Indian Ocean region and globally. He integrates social-ecological resilience, vulnerability, political economy and human rights as analytical approaches and conceptual frameworks throughout his work.
Dr. Haji Mwevura is Deputy Vice Chancellor in-charge of Academic Research and Consultancy at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), and a Senior Lecturer of Environmental Analytical Chemistry. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Annual Agricultural Research Review of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zanzibar, and is a member of various regional and national professional and technical boards such as East African Science and Technology Commission (EASTECO), Quality Assurance Committee of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), and Climate Change Curriculum Innovation Network of Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA).
Dr. Claude Gasper Mung’ong’o is currently an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam. He holds a PhD degree in Human Geography from Stockholm University, Sweden, and has more than 20 years of research experience in Environmental Sociology (including climate change), Pastoral Livelihood Analysis and Food Security, and general rural development. He has been involved in numerous socio-economic studies as a member of various natural resource use studies. He teaches several post-graduate courses at the University of Dar es Salaam, including the Political ecology of natural resource management, Integrated social survey methods, Impacts of climate change on human and ecosystems, and Pastoralism and climate change governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Coastal Resources in Tanzania
Book Subtitle: Studies on Socio-Ecological Systems’ Vulnerability, Resilience and Governance
Editors: Pius Zebhe Yanda, Ian Bryceson, Haji Mwevura, Claude Gasper Mung'ong'o
Series Title: Springer Climate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04897-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04896-9Published: 21 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04897-6Published: 06 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2352-0698
Series E-ISSN: 2352-0701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 216
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Climate Change, Environmental Policy, Environmental Economics, Natural Resources, Marine & Freshwater Sciences