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  title info:
    title: African Climate and Climate Change
    sub title: Physical, Social and Political Perspectives
  name:
    name part: Williams, Charles J. R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kniveton, Dominic R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 204 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Large scale features affecting Ethiopian rainfall -- 3 Ethiopian rainfall in climate models.-4 Extreme rainfall events over southern Africa -- 5 Understanding the large scale driving mechanisms of rainfall variability over central Africa -- 6 Climate change impacts on hydrology in Africa: Case studies of basin water resources -- 7 Adaptation to climate change and variability: farmer responses to intra-seasonal precipitation trends in South Africa -- 8 Climate change and migration: A modeling approach -- Conclusions -- Index.
  note: edited by Charles J. R. Williams, Dominic R. Kniveton.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  subject:
    topic: Physical Geography
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  classification: QC902.8-903.2
  classification: 577.27
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advances in Global Change Research, 43
  identifier: 9789048138425
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3842-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 110210
    record change date: 20151204145158.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-3842-5