Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - 9781138240773

Name: Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - 9781138240773
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Climate Change Adaptation in AfricaAn Historical Ecology\nAuthor(s): Gufu Oba\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138240773, 978-1138240773\nSynopsis\nIn the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges. \n\nDrawing from rock art, archaeology, paleoecological data, trade, ancient hydrological technology, vegetation, social memory and historical documentation, this book creates detailed reconstructions of past climate change adaptations across Sahelian Africa. It evaluates the present and future challenges to climate change adaptation in the region in terms of social memory, rainfall variability, environmental change and armed conflicts and examines the ways in which governance and policy drivers may undermine past.