Impact of Knowledge Management and Digital Libraries on Climate Change in West and Central Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Oluwayemi IbukunOluwa Olatoye ◽  
Ndakasharwa Muchaonyerwa ◽  
Tolulope Ayodeji Olatoye
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
West And Central Africa

scholarly journals Comparison of hydrological models for use in climate change studies: A test on 241 catchments in West and Central Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 351 (7) ◽  
pp. 477-486
Author(s):  
Kiswendsida Samiratou Ouermi ◽  
Jean-Emmanuel Paturel ◽  
Julien Adounpke ◽  
Agnidé Emmanuel Lawin ◽  
Bi Tié Albert Goula ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Hydrological Models ◽  
West And Central Africa

scholarly journals Climate change and educational attainment in the global tropics

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (18) ◽  
pp. 8840-8845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Randell ◽  
Clark Gray
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Extreme Temperature ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
West And Central Africa ◽  
Years Of Schooling

Climate change may negatively impact education among children via exposure to extreme temperature and precipitation conditions. We link census data from 29 countries across the global tropics to high-resolution gridded climate data to understand how climatic conditions experienced in utero and during early childhood affect educational attainment at ages 12 to 16. We show that exposure to higher-than-average temperatures during the prenatal and early-life period is associated with fewer years of schooling in Southeast Asia. In this region, a child who experiences temperatures 2 SDs above average is predicted to attain 1.5 fewer years of schooling than one who experiences average temperatures. In addition, early-life rainfall is positively correlated with attainment in West and Central Africa as well as Southeast Asia, and negatively correlated with attainment in Central America and the Caribbean. While we expected that children from the most educated households would be buffered from these effects, we discover that they tend to experience the greatest educational penalties when exposed to hotter early-life conditions and, in some regions, to drier conditions. For example, among the most educated households in West and Central Africa, predicted schooling is 1.8 years lower for children who experience early-life rainfall 2 SDs below average versus 2 SDs above average, while the difference is just 0.8 years for children from the least educated households. These results suggest that development and educational gains in the tropics could be undermined by climate change, even for better-off households.

Giant Tree Frog diversification in West and Central Africa: isolation by physical barriers, climate, and reproductive traits

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle E. Jaynes ◽  
Edward A. Myers ◽  
Václav Gvoždík ◽  
David C. Blackburn ◽  
Daniel M. Portik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Reproductive Traits ◽  
Tree Frog ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
West And Central Africa
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