African Climate and Climate Change Physical, Social and Political Perspectives
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
| Series: | Advances in Global Change Research
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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