Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-arid Tropics
Climate changes can trigger events that lead to mass migration, hunger, and even famine. Rather than focus on the impacts that result from climatic fluctuations, the authors look at the underlying conditions that cause social vulnerability. Once we understand why individuals, households, nations, and regions are vulnerable, and how they have buffered themselves against climatic and environmental shifts, then present and future vulnerability can be redressed. By using case studies from across...
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Global warming is the ultimate climate change; this book displays climate variability through past experiences.
List of contributorsForewordPrefaceList of abbreviationsIntroduction. Climate Variability, Climate Change and Vulnerability: Moving Forward by Looking Back11Climate Variation, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development in the Semi-arid Tropics132Climate Change and Variability in Mexico553The Impact of Climate Variation and Sustainable Development in the Sudano-Sahelian Region714Climate Change and Sustainable Development in China's Semi-arid Regions925Settlements Advance and Retreat A Century of Experience on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia1096Drought Follows the Plow: Cultivating Marginal Areas1257Amazonia and the Northeast: The Brazilian Tropics and Sustainable Development1298Reducing the Impacts of Drought: Progress Toward Risk Management1479Declaration of Fortaleza16710Highlights of Working Group Discussions and Recommendations170
