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African Climate and Climate Change

Physical, Social and Political Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Charles J. R. Williams

    1. University of Reading, 2U18 Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom

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  2. Dominic R. Kniveton

    1. Dept. Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

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  • A rare chance to read a collection of case studies on African climate change that spans the sciences to social sciences
  • Interdisciplinary flesh for the skeleton of concern that surrounds the impacts of climate change in Africa
  • Details a suite of methodologies from composite analysis through general circulation models to agent based models to research on the impacts of climate change

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 43)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Charles J.R. Williams, Dominic R. Kniveton
    Pages 1-12

  3. Large Scale Features Affecting Ethiopian Rainfall

    • Gulilat Tefera Diro, D.I.F. Grimes, E. Black
    Pages 13-50

  4. Ethiopian Rainfall in Climate Models

    • Gulilat Tefera Diro, Thomas Toniazzo, Len Shaffrey
    Pages 51-69

  5. Extreme Rainfall Events over Southern Africa

    • Charles J.R. Williams, Dominic R. Kniveton, R. Layberry
    Pages 71-100

  6. Understanding the Large Scale Driving Mechanisms of Rainfall Variability over Central Africa

    • A. Farnsworth, E. White, Charles J.R. Williams, E. Black, Dominic R. Kniveton
    Pages 101-122

  7. Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology in Africa: Case Studies of River Basin Water Resources

    • M.C. Todd, L. Andersson, C. Ambrosino, D. Hughes, Dominic R. Kniveton, L. Mileham et al.
    Pages 123-153

  8. Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Farmer Responses to Intra-seasonal Precipitation Trends in South Africa

    • David S.G. Thomas, Chasca Twyman, Henny Osbahr, Bruce Hewitson
    Pages 155-178

  9. Climate Change and Migration: A Modelling Approach

    • C. Smith, Dominic R. Kniveton, S. Wood, R. Black
    Pages 179-201

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-204
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Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. Widespread poverty, an extensive disease burden and pockets of political instability across the continent has resulted in a low resilience and limited adaptative capacity of African society to climate related shocks and stresses. To compound this vulnerability, there remains large knowledge gaps on African climate, manifestations of future climate change and variability for the region and the associated problems of climate change impacts. Research on the subject of African climate change requires an interdisciplinary approach linking studies of environmental, political and socio-economic spheres. In this book we use different case studies on climate change and variability in Africa to illustrate different approaches to the study of climate change in Africa from across the spectrum of physical, social and political sciences. In doing so we attempt to highlight a toolbox of methodologies (along with their limitations and advantages) that may be used to further the understanding of the impacts of climate change in Africa and thus help form the basis for strategies to negate the negative implications of climate change on society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, 2U18 Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom

    Charles J. R. Williams

  • Dept. Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Dominic R. Kniveton

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