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The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands: With a Focus on West Africa

The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands: With a Focus on West Africa

Dietz, A. J.
Ruben, R.
Verhagen, A.

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Series: Environment & Policy, Book 39

Environmental Studies

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ISBN10: 1402019521
ISBN13: 9781402019524
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 22 2004
Pages: 469
Weight: 2.19
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.76
Language: English

Sahelian West Africa has recovered from the disastrous droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. People have learned to adapt to risk and uncertainty in fragile dryland environments. They, as well as global change scientists, are worried about the impact of climate change on these West African drylands. What do the experiences of the last thirty years say about the preparedness for higher temperatures, lower rainfall, and even more variability? Detailed studies on Dryland West Africa as a whole, and on Burkina Faso, Mali and Northern Ghana in particular show an advanced coping behaviour and increased adaptation, but also major differences in vulnerability and coping potential. Climate change preparedness programmes have only just started and require more robust support, and more specific social targeting, for a population which is rapidly growing, even more rapidly urbanising, and further integrating in a globalised economy.

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