Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. This book uses different case studies on climate change and variability in Africa to illustrate different approaches to the study of climate change in Africa.

Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, have developed greatly over the last decade. This book aims to encapsulate some of these recent advances and focuses on the integration of research that has been conducted by geomorphologists and climatologists on linking climate and land surface changes.
This book is divided into two main parts: Section A incorporates research that has concentrated on short-term variations in climate, whilst...