Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Governance

ISBN-13: 9783030994136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

This book investigates indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby highlighting its role in facilitating adaptation to climate variability and change, and also demystifying the challenges that prevent it from being integrated with scientific knowledge in climate governance schemes. Indigenous people and their priceless knowledge rarely feature when decision-makers prepare for future climate change. This book showcases how Indigenous knowledge facilitates adaptation to climate change, including how collaborations with scientific knowledge have cascaded into building people’s resilience to climatic risks. This book also pays delicate attention to the factors fueling epistemic injustice towards Indigenous knowledge, which hampers it from featuring in climate governance schemes across sub-Saharan Africa.The key insights shared in this book illuminate the issues that contribute meaningfully towards the actualisation of the UN SDG 13 and promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in sub-Saharan Africa.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Indigenous knowledge systems in climate change adaptation and governance: An overview Eromose Ebhuoma and Llewellyn Leonard 

Part 1: The role of IKS in climate change mitigation and adaptation

Chapter 2 Pastoralists’ indigenous adaptation to climate variability and rangeland management in the Ndop plain, Northwest region, Cameroon Moye Eric Kongnso

 Chapter 3 Adopting Indigenous knowledge systems to enhance peace education programs for climate change and adaptation in Zimbabwe Ntombizakhe Moyo-Nyoni 

Chapter 4 Influence of Indigenous spiritual beliefs in natural resources management and climate change mitigation among the Yorùbás in Nigeria Musediq Olufemi Lawal; Oluwagbemiga Oluwaseun Ajayi and Adebayo Emmanuel Akinyemi 

Chapter 5 Indigenous women’s vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies in Central Africa: A systematic review Henry B. Tantoh; Eromose E. Ebhuoma and Llewellyn Leonard 

Chapter 6 An assessment of the role of Indigenous knowledge systems in climate change adaptation and mitigation in Southern Africa Shorai Kavu; Collen Kajongwe and Eromose Ebhuoma 

Chapter 7 Approaching positionality in research on indigenous knowledge Sinoxolo Magaya and Jennifer Fitchett Part 2: Integration of Indigenous and scientific knowledge systems to scale up resilience to climate change 

Chapter 8 Making climate services actionable for farmers in Northern Ghana: A reflection on the value of co-production and knowledge integration Emmanuel Nyadzi; Andy B. Nyamekye and Fulco Ludwig 

Chapter 9 Highlighting avenues to reconcile indigenous and scientific knowledge to address climate change and land degradation in the kingdom of Lesotho: A case study of the Maseru District Mulalo Rabumbulu and Itumeleng Komane 

Chapter 10 How corporate scientific expertise and privatised seeds are destroying indigenous knowledge systems for food security and climate change mitigation: The case of Sub-Saharan Africa Llewellyn Leonard Part 3: Integration of Indigenous knowledge systems in climate change governance and planning 

Chapter 11 Prospects for strengthening adaptation governance through Indigenous knowledge systems Nelson Chanza; Walter Musakwa and Anton de Wit 

Chapter 12 Integration of indigenous knowledge systems in the climate change policy of Zimbabwe Tariro Kamuti 

Chapter 13 Enhancing climate change adaptation through Indigenous knowledge systems and local governance in Africa Jane M. Chah; Obossou Esdras A. R.; Eromose Ebhuoma; Ifeoma Q. Anugwa and Divine Ewane 

Chapter 14 Harnessing Indigenous knowledge systems as a vehicle for enhanced climate change adaptation Felix Kwabena Donkor and Kevin Mearns 

Chapter 15 Factors fuelling the underrepresentation of Indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation policies in East Africa: A systematic review Eromose E. Ebhuoma 

Chapter 16 The role of Indigenous knowledge systems in climate change governance and action: Conclusions and recommendations and future research direction Llewellyn Leonard and Eromose Ebhuoma

O autorze

Eromose Ebhuoma is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA). His research interests lie in local and indigenous knowledge systems; climate change vulnerability and adaptation; climate services; political ecology; community development; rural livelihoods and environmental sustainability. He has written a number of articles and conference proceedings on topics revolving around his research interests. He is a steering committee member of the South African Adaptation Network.

Llewellyn Leonard is Professor at the School of Ecological and Human Sustainability, University of South Africa. His research interests include environmental justice; sustainability; risk communication; environmental leadership; civil society-state-industry relations; climate change adaptation and mitigation, mining and tourism impacts and political ecology/economy. He has published numerous articles in international journals.