scholarly journals Recent Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in the Sahel: A Critical Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Epule Epule ◽  
Abdelghani Chehbouni ◽  
Driss Dhiba
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Gray Literature ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
The Status ◽  
Climatic Drivers

Climate change adaptation continues to be central on the agenda of most African countries. Current understanding of the state of adaptation is limited in Africa. The Sahel is selected because of persistent declines in precipitation and rising temperatures. Here, we examine the status of adaptation actions across the Sahel by reviewing the primary peer review literature. A total of 70 peer review papers that document 414 discrete adaptations provide a snapshot of adaptations developed between 1975 and 2020. From a country-to-country perspective, Kenya has the highest number of reported adaptation actions (75 or 18.1%). From a regional standpoint, West Africa recorded about 261 or 18.1% of all adaptation actions reported. Income diversification of livelihoods, and water harnessing were reported as the most used adaptation actions in the Sahel. Based on categories, technically based adaptation actions are the most used options. The period 2008–2016 registered 65.2% of all adaptations. 98% of adaptation actions are reported to be driven by climate while non-climatic drivers account for 95% of adaptation actions. The findings presented here are proxies of climate change adaptation; some relevant information might be found in gray literature which not used because gray literature is less standardized because it is not subject to peer review.

scholarly journals Biodiversity and climate change adaptation through non-discrete architectural spaces and architectures

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Davidova ◽  
Dana Rakova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Climate Extreme ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
Systemic Process ◽  
Discrete Spaces ◽  
Systemic Design

The research claims that traditions are not static. They develop and adapt based on the present situation. Due to the recent climate extremes coming to formally mild climate locations, their architectures can learn from traditional ones from more climate extreme locations. The present systemic design study on semi-interior, ‘non-discrete spaces’ (Hensel, 2013; Hensel & Turko, 2015), of Norwegian traditional architectures, so called ‘svalgangs’ and ‘skuts’ examine its reuse for today climate change adaptation and support of biodiversity that is currently decreasing. Our agricultural land become so toxic, that its species are recently moving and adapting for life in the cities. The discussed traditional spaces offer various boundary penetration of its surrounding environment while providing mediation of its biotic and abiotic agency. These do not cover only anthropocentric benefits for its users such as light and climate comfort but also offer opportunities of communication with other species or their sheltering. This practitioners’ historical research survey motivated by design co-developes its own systemic process based methodology Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance that originates from ‘Systems Oriented Design’ (Sevaldson, 2013b) and ‘Time Based Design’ (Sevaldson, 2004). Where, this ‘non-anthropocentric architecture’ (Hensel, 2012) is in over-evolving co-design with ambient environment’s abiotic and biotic agents, including humans.

scholarly journals Drought Influences on Food Insecurity in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5897
Author(s):  
Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu ◽  
Felix Chari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

African countries continue to be prone to drought, caused mainly by unfavorable weather patterns and climatic variations which have an adverse impact on rural households and agricultural production. This literature review article accounted for the aforesaid drawbacks and attempted to assess the effect of drought on food insecurity in African countries. This article further sought to dissect the resilience and climate change adaptation strategies applied by African countries to mitigate the adverse effects of drought on food insecurity in rural livelihoods. The hermeneutic framework was adopted in this study, where the secondary data sources were searched from credible bibliographic and multidisciplinary databases and organizational websites. Thereafter, it was classified, mapped, and critically assessed using the qualitative data analysis software NVivo to generate patterns and themes. The NVivo program is a qualitative data analysis software package produced by QSR International and which helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze, and find insights in qualitative data; for example, in journal articles where multilayered analysis on small or large volumes of data are required. This article has the potential to contribute in theory, concept, policy, and practice regarding best practices, resilience, and climate change adaptation strategies that can be harnessed by rural people. Furthermore, this article has the potential to shed light on the role played by traditional leadership and policy improvements in ensuring there is sufficient food during periods of drought.

scholarly journals Drinking water status in Nepal: an overview in the context of climate change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sharma ◽  
M. Baidya ◽  
P. Poudel ◽  
S. R. Panthi ◽  
R. P. Shrestha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Gray Literature ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
The Status ◽  
Remarkable Progress ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Abstract Although Nepal has made remarkable progress in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector from past few decades, the status of WASH, in terms of climate change, is poorly documented and thus less known. This review aims to sum up WASH in climate change perspectives by reviewing available secondary data from published and gray literature. Climate change, and its impact on the WASH sector, is undeniable. Though many policies and laws are enforced to address climate change issues, very few policies and laws have incorporated climate change-resilient WASH as a priority. It is of current need to carry out action-based research studies on adaptation and mitigation of impact on the WASH sector, due to climate change, along with future eco-region interventions.

scholarly journals Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation

2019 ◽  
pp. 519-536
Author(s):  
K.S. Kavi Kumar ◽  
Brinda Viswanathan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
State Governments ◽  
State Action ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Migration

This chapter provides an overview of issues surrounding the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector with focus on India. The status of adaptation research focusing on triggers of adaptation and adaptation strategies, such as innovation, adoption of technologies, risk management, and migration, are discussed. The chapter then deliberates on approaches for mainstreaming climate change adaptation policies, namely, climate-proofing, climate-first, and development-first. The wide-ranging budgetary requirements made by the State Action Plans on Climate Change for the agricultural sector highlight the need for a coherent approach for assessing adaptation budgets, along with the establishment of climate and disaster cells in the line departments of the state governments to integrate the climate risks with the developmental plans.

scholarly journals Vulnerability Index Elaboration for Climate Change Adaptation in Peru

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Tostes Vieira ◽  
Alfredo Villavicencio Vieira ◽  
Claudia Motta Villa García
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ipcc Report

This paper evidences one of the most relevant information gaps of climate change adaptation in Peru: its vulnerabilities. First, it contextualizes main national level impacts and progress made in adaptation measures definition from prioritized thematic areas. Then, it addresses the difficulty of finding tools to measure climatic risk level. For instance, this arises the need to focus on the vulnerability associated with climate change adaptation efforts. Therefore, a vulnerability index based on a multi criteria analysis is proposed, with three parts. In the first one, three-work axes were chosen following the fifth IPCC report guidelines: climatic phenomena dangers, territorial exposure, and subjects’ vulnerability. The territorial area analysis was carried on at district level. With regard to subjects, five indicator groups were identified, and measurable variables were chosen: population; species and ecosystems; functions, services, and environmental municipalities’ assets; economic, social and cultural assets; and infrastructure. Next, data was searched for each variable and it was systematized in a multi-criteria database. Finally, an index (0-15) was developed to calculate socio-climatic vulnerability of all the Peruvian District Municipalities. They were classified according to social, climatic, and socio-climatic vulnerability range. This facilitates a targeting instrument for public policies that can generate better climate change risk management and contributes to commitments fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals.Keywords: Climate change, Vulnerability, Climate change adaptation, Socio-climatic vulnerabilities, Climate risk, Sustainable Development Goals

scholarly journals The status of climate change adaptation in Africa and Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 801-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Ford ◽  
Lea Berrang-Ford ◽  
Anna Bunce ◽  
Courtney McKay ◽  
Maya Irwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
The Status

Adapting to ‘extreme’ weather: mobile practice memories of keeping warm and cool as a climate change adaptation strategy

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1432-1450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolande Strengers ◽  
Cecily Maller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Recent Climate

Recent climate change adaptation policy positions previously mundane weather events, such as heatwaves and coldsnaps, as increasingly dangerous. Within this discourse of ‘extreme’ weather, the health sector is promoting climate-controlled indoor environments as a sensible coping strategy. Such responses mask our constant and ongoing adaptations to weather, which are becoming more dynamic and varied in mobile and globalised societies. In this paper, we are interested in reconceptualising adaptation as a series of everyday and remembered experiences with weather, which are situated within and carried by bodily social practices that contribute to keeping warm and cool. We are particularly concerned with what happens to these practices when those who carry them become mobile, through migration to other countries and climates. We consider the proposition that practices involved in staying warm or cool become more adaptable and innovative when they move. We explore these ideas through a study of international students who had recently moved to Melbourne, Australia from a range of countries. Using a ‘practice memory scrapbook’ method, we consider how student practices are resurrected, modified and/or transformed on arrival to a new locale, where memories are carried forward and disrupted by local varieties. Our analysis redefines the goal of adaptation as achieving tolerable, interesting, manageable, exciting, challenging and curious conditions; rather than pursuing comfort, familiarity and safety. We conclude that increasing exposure to varied weather conditions may enhance adaptive responses, and call for further research with mobile populations to provide further insight into adaptation to weather.

scholarly journals Implication of Climate Change on the Livelihood of Rural Farmers - An Enquiry

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
R. Dayanandan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Moisture Stress ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
Growing Seasons ◽  
The Status

<p>Climate change and variability worsened the situation by increasing moisture stress in the growing seasons of most cereal crops. Agricultural production among the farming rural adults in the country is adversely affected by climate change. As a result of this, the livelihood of large numbers of the rural poor is at risk and their vulnerability to food insecurity will be increased. Though many interventions are undertaken by different stakeholders, still the problem is worsening in the study area. Hence the main focus of this paper is assessing the climatic characteristics and the effects of climate change on the livelihood of rural farmers in the study area. To achieve the objectives, relevant data was collected from 123 sample rural farmers from three villages through stratified random sampling technique based on the agro-ecological conditions. In addition, focus group discussion and key informant interview were also carried out to elicit the relevant information. The collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics such as mean, percentages and standard deviation while inferential statistics like multiple linear regression and correlation to determine the effect of climate on the status of livelihood. The major findings reveal that there is high perception of farmers about climate change and mainly the factors which affecting were found to be population growth, overgrazing, deforestation, improper land use, etc.  Some elements of climate, temperature, rainfall and humidity show inter annual and seasonal variability with slightly increasing trend. The study recommends that awareness creation on climate mitigation strategies, diversifying the livelihood options, capacity building through training to adopt different technologies is essential.</p>

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