Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: An Historical Ecology

ISBN-13: 9781138013995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 270 str.

Peter Gufu Oba

Opis

In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges. Drawing from rock art, archaeology, paleoecological data, trade, ancient hydrological technology, vegetation, social memory and historical documentation, this book creates detailed reconstructions of past climate change adaptations across Sahelian Africa.

Spis treści

Preface  1. An historical ecological framework: Introduction  2. Rock art pastoralists: Historical ecology of adaptations  3. Pastoralism, space, time and knowledge: The social and ecological perspectives  4. Coastal commerce-interior caravan trade: Pastoralists participation ca. AD 600-1900  5. Origin of the ancient well technology: Historical hypotheses  6. Droughts, famine, locusts and epidemics: Centuries of adaptations  7. The nineteenth and twentieth century environmental changes: European Journal narratives  8. Adaptations to climate variability, grazing and water scarcities in the southern lowlands c. 1908-1962: A case study  9. Challenges to future climate change adaptations: Some propositions  10.Conclusion

O autorze

Gufu Oba is a Professor in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.