Climate change in Africa : adaptation, resilience, and policy innovations

Climate change in Africa : adaptation, resilience, and policy innovations / Michael Addaney, D B Jarbandhan, William Kwadwo Dumenu, editors.

This edited collection chronicles the public policy responses to climate change and current and potential impacts that will affect critical and priority sectors within and across African countries now and in the coming decades. Contributions cover governance and policy responses to climate change, e...

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Other Authors: Addaney, Michael (Editor), Jarbandhan, D. B. (Editor), Kwadwo Dumenu, William (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Africa.
Climatic changes
Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to climate change, adaptation policy and resilient development in Africa
  • 2. Climate change impediments to realising the right to development in Africa
  • 3. Climate change adaptation governance in Africa : the legal and institutional frameworks
  • 4. The role of indigenous and experiential knowledge in advancing enhanced climate action and policymaking in Africa
  • 5. Climate change, REDD+, and gendered benefit sharing in forest-dependent communities of Africa
  • 6. Multi-level climate change adaptation governance in Lagos in Nigeria and the Western Cape in South Africa
  • 7. Legal responses to climate disasters in southern Africa : practical legal developments in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
  • 8. Governing urban green spaces in the context of climate change in Ghana
  • 9. Carbon ownership and issues of resource governance in Ethiopia
  • 10. Climate variability and household food security in the Guinea Savannah agro-ecological zone of Ghana
  • 11. Putting people first in climate governance : the role of South Africa's indigenous values in securing ecologically sustainable development
  • Index.

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