Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yaro, Joseph A. (Editor), Hesselberg, Jan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Agriculture.; Climate Change.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

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 understandi...

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.