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Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Climate Information for Development Needs an Action Plan for Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Declan Conway
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030611604
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Climate Risk in Africa written by Declan Conway and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate risk. It is based on experiences in sub-Saharan Africa through the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) applied research programme. It begins by dealing with underlying principles and structures designed to facilitate effective engagement about climate risk, including the robustness of information and the construction of knowledge through co-production. Chapters then move on to explore examples of using climate information to inform adaptation and resilience through early warning, river basin development, urban planning and rural livelihoods based in a variety of contexts. These insights inform new ways to promote action in policy and praxis through the blending of knowledge from multiple disciplines, including climate science that provides understanding of future climate risk and the social science of response through adaptation. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners in geography, environment, international development and related disciplines.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251313709
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Handbook on climate information for farming communities – What farmers need and what is available written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of this guide is twofold: to describe the most important weather and agroclimatic products that are available by the National Meteorological Service (NMS) and to identify the most important needs of farmers concerning climate information. Special consideration will be given to the local knowledge used by rural farmers, too often neglected, but a key factor to their ability to cope with climate variability and change. An additional objective of this guide is to improve communication among the NMS staff, in particular, meteorologists and agrometeorologists and to encourage Agro-Pastoral Field School (APFS) trainers and facilitators to be more aware of their respective availability. Furthermore, one of the most important aims is the exchange of agroclimatic information that corresponds to the needs of all concerned, thus facilitating the assessment of the existing climatic risks in farming activities. The integration of the Response Farming in Rainfed Agriculture (RF) approach into Farmer Field School (FFS) is feasibly an effective way to reconcile NMS products with the needs of farmers. RF is a method used for identifying and quantifying rainfall variability at a local level to assess the climatic risks of farming communities. The Climate-Responsive Farming Management (CRFM) approach is an enhanced version of RF that uses modern and digital technologies, such as specific computer software, automatic weather stations, real-time telecommunication and smartphone applications. This approach can be implemented at a minimum cost at the farming level.The integration of the Response Farming in Rainfed Agriculture (RF) approach into FFS is feasibly an effective way to reconcile NMS products with the needs of farmers. RF is a method used for identifying and quantifying rainfall variability at a local level to assess the climatic risks of farming communities. The Climate-Responsive Farming Management (CRFM) approach is an enhanced version of RF that uses modern and digital technologies, such as specific computer software, automatic weather stations, real-time telecommunication and smartphone applications. This approach can be implemented at a minimum cost at the farming level.
Author : Albrecht Ansohn
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821383078
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Climate Governance and Development written by Albrecht Ansohn and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berlin Workshop Series 2010 presents selected papers from meetings held September 28 30, 2008, at the eleventh annual forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank s annual World Development Report. At the 2008 meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries met to explore the problems that climate governance poses for development, which are later examined in depth in the 'World Development Report 2010'. This volume presents papers from the Berlin workshop sessions on climate governance and development, covering climate change as a development priority; policies and technologies for energy and development; natural resource governance for adaptation, mitigation, and development; non-state actors and climate governance; financing adaptation and mitigation in an unequal world; and changing institutions of governance for climate change. IN THIS VOLUME: Introduction by Aehyung Kim and Boris Pleskovic; opening remarks by Carola Donner-Reichle; keynote addresses by Rosina Bierbaum and Justin Yifu Lin; and papers by Richard J. T. Klein, Judith A. Layzer, Claudia Kemfert, Siri Eriksen, Kedziora and Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, David Rogers, Charlotte Streck, John Scanlon and Clara Nobbe, and Hugh Compston and Ian Bailey.
Author : Osvaldo N. Feinstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351297945
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Evaluating Climate Change and Development written by Osvaldo N. Feinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change has become one of the most important global issues of our time, with far-reaching natural, socio-economic, and political effects. To address climate change and development issues from the perspective of evaluation, an international conference was held in Alexandria, Egypt. This book distills the essence of that timely conference, building on the experiences of more than 400 reports and studies presented. Developing countries may be particularly vulnerable to the expected onslaught of higher temperatures, rising sea levels, changing waterfall patterns, and increasing natural disasters. All societies will have to reduce their vulnerability to these changes, and this book describes how vulnerabilities may be addressed in a systematic manner so that governments and local communities may better understand what is happening. Different approaches are also discussed, including the use of human security as a criterion for evaluation as well as ways to deal with risk and uncertainty. Evaluating Climate Change and Development presents a rich variety of methods to assess adaptation through monitoring and evaluation. The volume deals with climate change, development, and evaluation; challenges and lessons learned from evaluations; mitigation of climate change; adaptation to climate change; vulnerability, risks and climate change; and presents a concluding chapter on the road ahead. Collectively the authors offer a set of approaches and techniques for the monitoring and evaluation of climate change.
Author : Alberto Troccoli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048136911
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Management of Weather and Climate Risk in the Energy Industry written by Alberto Troccoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meteorological and climate data are indeed essential both in day-to-day energy management and for the definition of production and distribution infrastructures. For instance, the supply of electricity to users can be disturbed by extreme meteorological events such as thunderstorms with unusually strong winds, severe icing, severe cold spells, sea level elevation associated with storm surges, floods ... To be protected against such events, it is not sufficient to act after they have taken place. It is necessary to identify their potential impacts precisely and assess the probability of their occurrence. This book shows that this can only be done through an enhanced dialogue between the energy community and the climate and meteorology community. This implies an in-depth dialogue between actors to define precisely what kind of data is needed and how it should be used. Météo-France has been in long-term cooperation with the energy sector, including the fields of electricity production and distribution. Drawing on this experience, it should be noted in this respect the importance of lo- term partnership between actors as exemplified here by the message of EDF.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136683801
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004683089
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Yearbook on the African Union Volume 3 (2022) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. Despite the increased agency in recent years of the African Union in general, and the AU Commission in particular, little is known – outside expert policy or niche academic circles – about the Union’s activities. This is the gap the Yearbook on the African Union wants to systematically address. It seeks to be a reference point for in-depth research, evidence-based policy-making and decision-making. Contributors are Festus Kofi Aubyn, Mandira Bagwandeen, Habibu Yaya Bappah, Bruce Byiers, Annie Barbara Hazviyemurwi Chikwanha, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, Linnea Gelot, Cheryl Hendricks, Jens Herpolsheimer, Aïssatou Kanté, Tim Murithi, Edefe Ojomo, Thomas Tieku, Gino Vlavonou, Tim Zajontz.
Author : Silvia Macchi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 331900672X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Climate Change Vulnerability in Southern African Cities written by Silvia Macchi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, extreme rains and drought have struck urban regions in Africa like never before. Nevertheless, limited information is available on which to base development of early warning systems, identification of high-risk zones and formulation of local action plans. This book is about how to build the knowledge necessary for planning adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan cities. It brings together lessons learned from international development actions conducted by a number of scholars in disciplines ranging from meteorology and hydrogeology to urban planning and environmental management. Selected methods to assess the impacts of extreme weather and ecological stress are presented along with possible approaches to improve the adaptive capacity of Sub-Saharan cities through institutional measures at the local government level. The book is addressed to graduate students, researchers and practitioners interested in enhancing their knowledge and skills in order to integrate climate change into applied research and development projects in urban Africa.
Author : J. Mangala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230115535
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book New Security Threats and Crises in Africa written by J. Mangala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relations in an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It moves beyond colonization, marginalization, imperialism to look at the forces and dynamics that are reshaping Africa's external relations today.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book OECD Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Forole Jarso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Africa and the Climate Change Agenda written by James Forole Jarso and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade or so, climate change has been regularly cited as one of the biggest impediments to Africa's realization of sustainable growth and development. In particular, African leaders have been warned that, in light of the immense challenges posed by the phenomenon, the continent stands a very marginal chance of making meaningful progress towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. It cannot be gainsaid that these warnings are not without basis. Climate change commands significant influence on Africa's performance; it portends innumerable socio-economic and political challenges for the continent, which has perennially garnered “breaking news” coverage largely for the appalling humanitarian catastrophes on its soil. Though it contributes only about 3.8% of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the continent constantly experiences the adverse impacts of climate change, as a result of its high poverty levels and low capacity to adapt. Worryingly, the effects of climate change have proved to be akin to Russian roulette, with every pull of the trigger posing risks for all, and the poor bearing the heaviest brunt because of their dependence on the surrounding environment for their survival. Today, issues relating to climate change are addressed in a plethora of treaties adopted within the UN framework. In their formal acknowledgment of the importance of climate change issues, African countries have overwhelmingly subscribed to these instruments. Africa's predicament has received formal acknowledgement in various circles. Within the inter-governmental African Union (AU) framework, on several occasions climate change has garnered the attention of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government (the Assembly), as well as the inter-ministerial level of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). The issues have equally featured prominently within the framework of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), where Action Plan of the Environment Initiative affirms the continent's concerns vis-à-vis the challenges posed by climate change, and provides for climate change as one of the core priority areas to be addressed by the continent's leadership. The issues have equally garnered the attention of various forums, in particular the African Development Forum (ADF), a biennial multi-stakeholder gathering committed to building consensus and mobilizing partners for Africa's development. The 2010 Seventh African Development Forum (ADF VII), whose theme was “Acting on Climate Change for Sustainable Development in Africa,” was jointly organized by the Addis Ababa-based UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the AU Commission, and the Tunis-based African Development Bank (AfDB). The participants, drawn from diverse stakeholders, deliberated on the challenges and opportunities resented by climate change in Africa, and, after the five days of intensive panel discussions and parallel sessions, adopted a common statement (Consensus Statement) with some fifty-six points of agreement. This article aims to unearth the challenges and prospects in sustaining the outcomes of these principled negotiations for the African continent to make lasting progress in addressing the effects and impacts of climate change and variability.
Author : Raffaello Cervigni
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464804672
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure written by Raffaello Cervigni and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To sustain Africa’s growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental. In 2010, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic found that to enable Africa to fill its infrastructure gap, some US$ 93 billion per year for the next decade will need to be invested. The Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), endorsed in 2012 by the continent’s Heads of State and Government, lays out an ambitious long-term plan for closing Africa’s infrastructure including trough step increases in hydroelectric power generation and water storage capacity. Much of this investment will support the construction of long-lived infrastructure (e.g. dams, power stations, irrigation canals), which may be vulnerable to changes in climatic patterns, the direction and magnitude of which remain significantly uncertain. Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa 's Infrastructure evaluates -using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-arte climate scenarios-, the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans in Africa’s main rivers basins (Niger, Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile, Zambezi, Orange); and outlines an approach to reduce climate risks through suitable adjustments to the planning and design process. The book finds that failure to integrate climate change in the planning and design of power and water infrastructure could entail, in scenarios of drying climate conditions, losses of hydropower revenues between 5% and 60% (depending on the basin); and increases in consumer expenditure for energy up to 3 times the corresponding baseline values. In in wet climate scenarios, business-as-usual infrastructure development could lead to foregone revenues in the range of 15% to 130% of the baseline, to the extent that the larger volume of precipitation is not used to expand the production of hydropower. Despite the large uncertainty on whether drier or wetter conditions will prevail in the future in Africa, the book finds that by modifying existing investment plans to explicitly handle the risk of large climate swings, can cut in half or more the cost that would accrue by building infrastructure on the basis of the climate of the past.
Author : Michael Addaney
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031300505
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Climate Change in Africa written by Michael Addaney and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, emphasizing continental governance and policy responses, national governance and policy responses (what selected countries in Africa are doing), and local or community policy and programmatic responses (what some selected major African communities are doing). Each chapter adopts multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from social and policy sciences, emphasizing existing gaps, particularly in the area of decision-making, governance and local climate action. The book offers both theoretical and practical contributions, with the aim of advancing academic discourse and thinking, policymaking and implementation of climate interventions in Africa.
Author : Louis J. Kotzé
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004273891
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity written by Louis J. Kotzé and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity compiles critical analysis of the regulatory frameworks applicable to the transboundary governance of biodiversity by specialists from Europe and Africa. Drawing on their vast experience as lawyers, political scientists and natural resource management experts, they provide a critique and contemporary perspectives on what has become one of the most challenging aspects of global environmental governance in the Anthropocene: effective biodiversity conservation in times of unprecedented environmetal crises. With a unique North-South focus and a legal focus infused by multi-disciplinary regulatory dimensions, this peer-reviewed publication offers a comprehensive analysis of international and regional environmental law frameworks applicable to the transboundary governance of biodiversity.
Author : Christiansen, Bryan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522557881
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Emerging Economic Models for Global Sustainability and Social Development written by Christiansen, Bryan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change is an inevitable aspect of human life. As time goes by, certain processes and ways of doing things become inadequate. When it comes to economic systems, there is a need to review current models and revise them to meet new global demands in both developed and developing nations. Emerging Economic Models for Global Sustainability and Social Development is an essential reference source that discusses economic, political, and social environments in the modern age, as well as economic development in an era of global hyper-competition, dwindling natural resources, and a growing global skills gap. Featuring research on topics such as monetary policy, economic theory, and rural poverty, this book is ideally designed for business managers, policymakers, government officials, researchers, academicians, and upper-level students seeking coverage on theoretical and empirical models in economic behavior.
Author : Weltbank
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Africa - Making Development Climate Resilient written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This strategy for making development Climate-Resilient in Sub-Saharan Africa is the World Bank's operational response to climate variability and change on the continent. Grounded in a climate risk review of the Africa Region's sustainable development portfolio, it adds the climate change dimension to the Region's development strategy and business plan, the Africa Action Plan (AAP, 2009-2012), and will be an integral part of the AAP in the future. The AAP and the climate change strategy are a sound and realistic framework for climate-resilient development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The strategy is based on the premise that increased climate variability threatens the development gains of African countries, and that these effects need to be anticipated so that development efforts can be made more resilient to climate change. Climate has always featured prominently in African development, and people across the continent have been living with and adapting to a high degree of climate variability and its associated risks for many centuries. Yet the accelerated changes in the climate and increasing incidence of climatic disasters (floods, droughts, cyclones) during the last century, and the scientific consensus that Africa is the continent most vulnerable and least able to cope with these changes, have brought these risks into sharper focus, and made the need to address them more urgent.
