The status of wetlands, threats and the predicted effect of global climate change: the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Anthony Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Opportunities and Challenges of Scaling up Agroforestry Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamirat Wato ◽  
Mekides Amare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Agroforestry Practices

Agroforestry is land-use systems and technologies where woody perennials are deliberately used on equivalent land management units as crops and/or animals. Its systems combine tree growing with the assembly of different crops or animals. Hence, developing positive ecological and economic interactions between components, agroforestry systems aim to produce a variety of environmental, economic and social advantages to farming communities. It plays a major role in soil conservation and global climate change mitigation particularly due to its tree component. Trees control soil degradation through their roots and accumulate greenhouse emission (GHG) in their biomass. What is more, it conjointly helps in global climate change adaptation. It’s a long-time undeniable fact that despite our gift effort at global climate change mitigation (GHG reduction), there is an additional pressing ought to address the impact of global climate change (adaptation). Peoples ought to be acutely aware regarding the scope and advantages of agroforestry and that they ought to participate in the implementation and development of agroforestry within the country. Thus, this paper reviews different analysis findings on the opportunities and challenges for scaling up agroforestry practices. Therefore, the agroforestry system is economically and ecologically sound practices with an improvement of overall farm productivity, soil enrichment through litterfall, maintaining environmental services like international global climate change mitigation (carbon sequestration), phytoremediation, watershed protection and biodiversity conservation.

scholarly journals Managing Climate Change: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Building Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Christopher Graham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Research increasingly suggests that climate change has intensified the frequency of droughts, floods, and other environmental disasters across sub-Saharan Africa. In response to the resulting array of climate-induced challenges, various stakeholders are working collectively to build climate resilience in rural and urban communities and trans-continentally. This paper examines key climate resilience-building projects that have been implemented across sub-Saharan Africa through multi-stakeholder partnerships. It uses a vulnerabilities assessment approach to examine the strategic value of these projects in managing the mitigation of climate shocks and long-term environmental changes. There are still many challenges to building climate resilience in the region, but through multi-stakeholder partnerships, sub-Saharan African nations are expanding their capacity to pool resources and build collective action aimed at financing and scaling up innovative climate solutions. This article contributes to ongoing interdisciplinary academic, management, and policy discourses on global climate adaptation focused on populations and landscapes most at risk.

The status of wetlands and the predicted effects of global climate change: the situation in Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Finlayson ◽  
J. A. Davis ◽  
P. A. Gell ◽  
R. T. Kingsford ◽  
K. A. Parton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Status

Multiplicity of Ontologies: Lakes and Humans in Siberia

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 523-542
Author(s):  
Csaba Mészáros
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multiple Ontologies ◽  
The Way

Global climate change and modernization efforts in the Soviet era have affected the relationship between humans and lakes in Northeast Siberia and have compelled local Sakhas to perceive and renegotiate the status of lakes. These changes have distanced Sakhas from their lakes, and, thus, fishermen and trappers have entered a new epoch, when they not longer fully understand the way lakes respond to human agency. By describing contemporary incoherent local practices at lakes (trapping and fishing), I intend to reflect on new, emergent and multiple ontologies among Sakhas.

scholarly journals Urban Sprawl in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the literature in selected countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Gerald Albert Baeribameng Yiran ◽  
Austin Dziwornu Ablo ◽  
Freda Elikplim Asem ◽  
George Owusu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Agrarian Change ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Sub Saharan

Urban sprawl has gained popularity in academic discourse in recent times, but the majority of the research was conducted in developed countries. There is a marginal body of works on the character and nature of urban sprawl in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), although the region isexperiencing one of the fastest rates of sprawl. Urbanisation in SSA is very rapid, and in addition to the emerging challenges of globalisation, climate change and poverty, SSA cities have an enormous task to manage urban sprawl. This paper reviews the literature on urban sprawl in SSAto identify research gaps and propose a research agenda. Published articles from five Anglophone countries in three of the four regional blocks in SSA were selected. The literature was organised into the causes and effects of urban sprawl and showed that the previous research on the subjectfocused mainly on its environmental impacts. Few studies have looked at the effects of sprawl on rural livelihoods, agriculture and food security considering the challenges of global climate change and poverty. Other studies have used Remote Sensing and Geographic InformationSystems, but these were conducted largely for change detection. The paper recommends the deployment of a more comprehensive methodology incorporating remote sensing/GIS with ethnographic methods to capture better the complexity and impacts of urban sprawl in SSA.Additionally, further research attention must be paid to the effects of urban sprawl on rural livelihoods and overall sprawl-induced agrarian change.

scholarly journals Ethical Evaluation of Environmental Stewardship in Sub-Saharan Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Mark Omorovie Ikeke
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Endangered Plants ◽  
Human Habitation ◽  
Sub Saharan

It is an indisputable fact that the global climate change crisis is equally affecting Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is inundated with a lot of environmental problems. These problems include pollution, land degradation, deforestation, desertification, extinction of endangered plants and animals’ species, indiscriminate dumping of both domestic and industrial waste, drought, and so forth. Environmental problems cause a great ordeal for humans. They lead to the destruction of human habitation, the destruction of the habitat of plants and animals, the endangerment of water sources, the destruction of farmland and streams, etc. All these impacts the wellbeing of humans and other entities on the planet. Many environmental problems taking place in Africa are anthropogenic, which means that they are caused by human activities. This paper argues that in order for the Sub-Saharan population to overcome these environmental problems, they should believe and practice environmental stewardship or eco-stewardship. Through a hermeneutical and critical analytic method, the concept of eco-stewardship is examined and critiqued. Some of the causes of environmental problems in Sub-Saharan Africa are also presented. The paper finds and concludes that environmental stewardship can help to curb or mitigate the environmental crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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