Description: In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be threatened due to fluctuations in rainfall and temperature, and to extreme weather events. Because weather extremes are the main way that climate change manifests itself, water governance is a crucial aspect of climate change resilience. Following an overview of the ways climate change is affecting three cities in Africa, Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi discusses the equity and climate justice implications, and then gives examples of ways in which a range of local community organizations are extending their current activities to address these challenges through innovative new programs and initiatives at the grassroots. This approach has implications for communities worldwide; it is a process of building on existing organizations' aptitudes and strengths in the light of local knowledge of climate challenges, and creating partnerships to build equity-enhancing new methods of protecting people's subsistence. This book should be of interest to climate change scholars, activists and policy-makers, as well as development studies researchers and practitioners.
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EAN: 9781138926820
UPC: 9781138926820
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Book Title: Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and
Item Height: 1 cm
Number of Pages: 130 Pages
Publication Name: Water and Climate Change in Africa : Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Environmental Economics, Development / Economic Development, Global Warming & Climate Change, Natural Resources, Development / Sustainable Development
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Nature, Science, Business & Economics
Author: Patricia E. Perkins
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
