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African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation by Walter Leal Filho, Nicholas Oguge, Desalegn Ayal, Lydia Adeleke, Izael da Silva, (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation about?

This open access book discusses current thinking and presents the main issues and challenges associated with climate change in Africa. It introduces evidences from studies and projects which show how climate change adaptation is being - and may continue to be successfully implemented in African countries. Thanks to its scope and wide range of themes surrounding climate change, the ambition is that this book will be a lead publication on the topic, which may be regularly updated and hence capture further works. Climate change is a major global challenge. However, some geographical regions are more severly affected than others. One of these regions is the African continent. Due to a combination of unfavourable socio-economic and meteorological conditions, African countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. The recently released IPCC special report "Global Warming of 1.5o C" outlines the fact that keeping global warming by the level of 1.5o C is possible, but also suggested that an increase by 2o C could lead to crises with crops (agriculture fed by rain could drop by 50% in some African countries by 2020) and livestock production, could damage water suppl

Who reads African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation?

Author

Walter Leal Filho, Nicholas Oguge, Desalegn Ayal, Lydia Adeleke, Izael da Silva, (eds.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030420918

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Management