Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Fostering Resilience and Capacit
This collection showcases experiences from research and field projects in climate change adaptation on the African continent. It includes a set of papers presented at a symposium held in Addis Abeba in February 2016, which brought together international e
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Walter Leal Filho Belay Simane Jokasha Kalangu Menas Wuta Pantaleo Munishi Kumbirai Musiyiwa Editors
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Fostering Resilience and Capacity to Adapt
Climate Change Management Series editor Walter Leal Filho, Hamburg, Germany
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8740
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Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Fostering Resilience and Capacity to Adapt
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Editors Walter Leal Filho FTZ-NK HAW Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Menas Wuta Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering University of Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe
Belay Simane Environmental and Development Studies Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia Jokasha Kalangu School of Water Resources South Eastern Kenya University Nairobi Kenya
ISSN 1610-2010 Climate Change Management ISBN 978-3-319-49519-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49520-0
Pantaleo Munishi Department Ecosystems and Conservation, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism Sokoine University of Agriculture Morogoro Tanzania Kumbirai Musiyiwa Agricultural Sciences and Technology Chinhoyi University of Technology Chinhoyi Zimbabwe
ISSN 1610-2002
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ISBN 978-3-319-49520-0
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Preface
It is widely known that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. As the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shown, climate change is expected to ha
