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  title info:
    title: Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa
  name:
    name part: Yaro, Joseph A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hesselberg, Jan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 244 p. 35 illus., 27 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents conceptual and empirical discussions of adaptation to climate change/variability in West Africa. Highlighting different countries’ experiences in adaptation by different socio-economic groups and efforts at building their adaptive capacity, it offers readers a holistic understanding of adaptation on the basis of contextual and generic sources of adaptive capacity. 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.
  table of contents: Introduction to book -- What’s on the 5th IPCC report for West Africa? -- Climate Change over West Africa: Recent Trends and Future Projections -- Seasonal variability: Impacts, adaptations and the sustainability challenge -- An assessment of determinants of adaptive capacity to climate change/variability in the rural savannah of Ghana -- Climate Change, Local knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana -- Building Bonds and Breaking Bridges: Community Based Adaptation (CBA) as a source of conflict in a northern Ghanaian landscape -- Climate Change Adaptation, Education, and Rural Transformation in Northern Ghana. Moving beyond an agricultural focus.
  note: edited by Joseph A. Yaro, Jan Hesselberg.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  classification: QC902.8-903.2
  classification: 577.27
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319314990
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31499-0
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    record change date: 20160412171853.0
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