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African Climate and Climate Change: Physical, Social and Political Perspectives (Advances in Global Change Research (43)) by Charles J.R. Williams, Dominic R. Kniveton (auth.), Charles J. R. Williams, Dominic R. Kniveton (eds.) is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is African Climate and Climate Change: Physical, Social and Political Perspectives (Advances in Global Change Research (43)) about?
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 of African society to climate related shocks and stresses. To compound this vulnerability, there remains large knowledge gaps on African climate, manifestations of future climate change and variabilit
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- Author
- Charles J.R. Williams, Dominic R. Kniveton (auth.), Charles J. R. Williams, Dominic R. Kniveton (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789048138425
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Anthropology, Engineering
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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