Integrating Climate Change into Policies and Institutions Governing Pastoral Systems in East Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Adolphine Kateka
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Pastoral Systems

scholarly journals Epidemic malaria and warmer temperatures in recent decades in an East African highland

2010 ◽  
Vol 278 (1712) ◽  
pp. 1661-1669 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Alonso ◽  
Menno J. Bouma ◽  
Mercedes Pascual
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Human Model ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
East African ◽  
Highly Nonlinear ◽  
The Impact

Climate change impacts on malaria are typically assessed with scenarios for the long-term future. Here we focus instead on the recent past (1970–2003) to address whether warmer temperatures have already increased the incidence of malaria in a highland region of East Africa. Our analyses rely on a new coupled mosquito–human model of malaria, which we use to compare projected disease levels with and without the observed temperature trend. Predicted malaria cases exhibit a highly nonlinear response to warming, with a significant increase from the 1970s to the 1990s, although typical epidemic sizes are below those observed. These findings suggest that climate change has already played an important role in the exacerbation of malaria in this region. As the observed changes in malaria are even larger than those predicted by our model, other factors previously suggested to explain all of the increase in malaria may be enhancing the impact of climate change.

scholarly journals Extreme rainfall in East Africa, October 2019–January 2020 and context under future climate change

Weather ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Wainwright ◽  
Declan L. Finney ◽  
Mary Kilavi ◽  
Emily Black ◽  
John H. Marsham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Extreme Rainfall ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change

Climate Change and People Change: Dancing the Dialectic

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Paul O'Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Extreme Conditions ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Assessment Report ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
The Subject

The fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014) says that accelerated climate change is occurring because of enhanced release of greenhouse gases. It is projected that temperatures will increase in East Africa but there is no agreement on how precipitation will change. There is acceptance that the climate system will throw up more frequent extreme conditions, including drought. We can begin to understand how this will materialize in people's livelihood strategies and adaptive choices. This paper identifies theoretical problems in the dominant discourses surrounding human-environment relations and climate change, and argues for a dialectical approach to the subject. It concludes with a brief vignette focused on a dialectical study of climate change.

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