Climate change and natural resources conflicts in Africa / [edited by] Donald Anthony Mwiturubani and Jo-Ansie van Wyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mwiturubani, Donald Anthony.

Van Wyk, Jo-Ansie.

Series:

ISS monograph series ; no. 170.

Monograph ; 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Africa.

Climatic changes.

Natural resources--Africa--Management.

Natural resources.

Conflict management--Africa.

Conflict management.

Water resources development.

Management.

Africa.

Water resources development--Africa.

Physical Description:

xii, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pretoria : Institute for Security Studies, [2010]

Contents:

Pt. 1. Climate change and human security in Africa. The African Union's response to climate change and climate security / Jo-Ansie van Wyk

Climate change, population surge and resource overuse in the Lake Chad area : implications for human security in the north-east zone on Nigeria / Freedom C. Onuoha

Climate change, hydropolitics and security in Lesotho / Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

Pt. 2. Climate change and access to natural resources. Climate change and access to water resources in the Lake Victoria Basin / Donald Anthony Mwiturubani

The hydropolitics of the Nile : climate change and food security in Ethiopia / Debay Tadesse

Pt. 3. Climate change and natural resource-use conflicts. Silence on climate change and natural resources conflict in Nigeria : the Niger Delta experience / Bonnie Ayodele

Putting tested wisdom into practice : relevance and applicability of Nyakyusa traditional conflict resolution practices to contemporary environmental challenges in Tanzania / Ipyana Mwamugobole

Anthropogenic-induced climate change and the resulting tendency to land conflict : the case of the Soutpansberg Regions, South Africa / Tibangayuka Kabanda and Christopher Munyati

Pt. 4. Vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability. Carbon : an exploration of soil carbon sequestration potential in the Bukoba district, north-west Tanzania / Byjesh Kattarkandi, Mariana Rufino and Pablo Titonell

Climate variability, pastoralists' vulnerability and options : the case of the Borana of Northern Kenya / Tari Doti

Dynamics of cultivated and its association with rainfall variability in Botswana : implications for food security under climate change / Nnyaladzi Batisani

Pt. 5. National environmental legislations, policies and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) : legal and policy challenges for Tanzania / Joy Faida and Eliamani Laltaika

The link between climate change, law, sustainable development and livelihoods in Uganda / Godard Busingye.

Notes:

"May 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781920422059

1920422056

OCLC:

656352550