Overview
Focuses on adaptation to climate change in West Africa
Provides theoretical/conceptual insights on risks, adaptation, resilience, and climate change
Offers well-founded knowledge on critical aspects of climate change
Integrates different aspects of adaptation - practices, determinants, consequences, and policy options
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa
Editors: Joseph A. Yaro, Jan Hesselberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31499-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31497-6Published: 21 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81052-2Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31499-0Published: 12 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Agriculture