Climate Change in Africa: Social and Political Impacts, Conflicts, and Strategies

ISBN-13: 9783631742402 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Bettina Engels;Kristina Dietz

Opis

This volume deals with the consequences of climate change and issues of international climate policy relating to Africa from a social science perspective. The contributions by international authors question dominant political approaches and key concepts of the climate debate. They explain how the effects of climate change are linked to existing social, economic and political-institutional structures and action by the State. The authors show how social movements in Africa shape climate policy "from below". The volume serves as an introduction into climate change in Africa. It wants to stimulate a critical debate on dominant strategies and points out that there can be no simple answers to the complex socio-ecological and political challenges linked to climate change in Africa.

Spis treści

Climate change - Environmental justice - Democracy - Natural resources - Social movements - Africa

O autorze

Kristina Dietz and Bettina Engels are joint directors of the Junior Research Group «Global Change and Local Conflicts? Conflicts over Land in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of Interdependent Transformation Processes» at Freie Universität Berlin.