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Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-Arid Tropics

Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-Arid Tropics

Ribot, Jesse C.
Panagides, Stahis
Magalhes, Antonio Rocha

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Environmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521019478
ISBN13: 9780521019477
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 13 2005
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.41 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
Climate changes can trigger events that lead to mass migration, hunger, and even famine. Rather than focus on the impacts that result from climatic fluctuations, the authors look at the underlying conditions that cause social vulnerability. Once we understand why individuals, households, nations, and regions are vulnerable, and how they have buffered themselves against climatic and environmental shifts, then present and future vulnerability can be redressed. By using case studies from across the globe, the authors explore past experiences with climate variability, and the likely effects of--and the possible policy responses to--the types of climatic events that global warming might bring.

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