African Climate and Climate Change Physical, Social and Political Perspectives /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Williams, Charles J. R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kniveton, Dominic R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Σειρά: Advances in Global Change Research, 43
• Θέματα: Environment.; Climate change.; Geography.; Physical geography.; Human geography.; Climate Change.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Geography, general.; Physical Geography.; Human Geography.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.