ISBN:
9789004410831
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XX, 347 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Serie:
Climate and culture volume 5
Serie:
Climate and culture
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Environmental Change and African societies - past, present and future (Veranstaltung : 2014 : Essen) Environmental change and African societies
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Environmental Change and African societies - past, present and future (Veranstaltung : 2014 : Essen) Environmental change and African societies
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Environmental Change and African societies - past, present and future (Veranstaltung : 2014 : Essen) Environmental change and African societies
DDC:
304.2/50967
Schlagwort(e):
Climatic changes Congresses
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Human ecology Congresses
;
Africa, Sub-Saharan Congresses Environmental conditions
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Konferenzschrift 2014
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Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Klimaänderung
;
Sozialer Wandel
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction: environmental change and African societies (Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermannpart) -- To see or not to see : on the "absence" of climate change (discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania (Sara de Wit) -- Perspectives on climate change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000 (Vimbai Kwashiraipart) -- Environmental and climate change in Africa : global drought and local environmental infrastructure (Emmanuel Kreike) -- Shamba forestry in colonial Kenya : colonial dominance or African opportunity? (Ben Fanstone) -- I'm staying! : climate variability and circular migration in Burkina Faso (Jonas Østergaard Nielsen) -- Living with a changing climate in sub-Saharan Africa : more of the same (Joy Clancy) -- Sustainable Mauritius? : environmental change, energy efficiency, and sustainable development in a small island state in the Indian Ocean (Laura Jeffery) -- Transformative learning for global change? : reflections on the Wascal Master Programme in climate change and education in the Gambia (Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambopart) -- Africa in transition : what role for the environment? (Ton Dietz) -- Africa's high modernism : historical ecologies of climate change and hydrologies of watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi) (James C. McCann) -- Increasing urbanisation and the role of green spaces in urban climate resilience in Africa (Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo-Concha, and Manfred Denich)
Anmerkung:
Papers originally presented at a workshop on "Environmental Change and African Societies" in Essen, Germany, June 2014 (Impressum)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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