Adaptation to climate change and variability in rural West Africa. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joseph A. Yaro, Jan Hesselberg, editors.
• Editors: Yaro, Joseph Awetori; Hesselberg, J (Jan)
• Contents: Introduction to book -- What?s on the 5th IPCC report for West Africa? -- Climate Change over West Africa: Recent Trends and Future Projections -- Seasonal variability: Impacts, adaptations and the sustainability challenge -- An assessment of determinants of adaptive capacity to climate change/variability in the rural savannah of Ghana -- Climate Change, Local knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana -- Building Bonds and Breaking Bridges: Community Based Adaptation (CBA) as a source of conflict in a northern Ghanaian landscape -- Climate Change Adaptation, Education, and Rural Transformation in Northern Ghana. Moving beyond an agricultural focus.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages), color maps
• Subjects: 363.738/740966; Environment; Climatic changes -- Africa, West; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Climatic changes; Rural conditions; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Technology & Engineering -- Agriculture -- General; The environment; Agricultural science; Climatic changes; Agriculture; Science -- Environmental Science; Climate change; Africa, West -- Rural conditions; Africa, West; Vest-Afrika; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319314990; 3319314998; 3319314971; 9783319314976
• Related ISBNs: 9783319314976
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2016).
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