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Managing a changing climate in Africa: Local level vulnerabilities and adaptation experiences

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dc.creator Yanda, Pius Z.
dc.creator Mubaya, C. P.
dc.date 2016-03-14T10:27:06Z
dc.date 2016-03-14T10:27:06Z
dc.date 2011
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:50:09Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:50:09Z
dc.identifier Yanda, P.Z. and Mubaya, C.P., 2011. Managing a changing climate in Africa: Local level vulnerabilities and adaptation experiences. African Books Collective.
dc.identifier 978-9987-08-089-2
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/914
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10613
dc.description Available at google books https://books.google.com/
dc.description The realisation that the Earth climate might be sensitive to the atmospheric concentrations of gases that create a greenhouse effect is more than a century olds (IISD 2008; IPCC1 2007d: 7-9). Scientist such as Fourier (French) and Arrhenius (Swedish) explained the Earth’s greenhouse effect and the role played by some atmospheric gases such as CO2 and methane (CH4) in warming our planet (Fleming, 1998). Around the same time, Arrhenius, together with Chamberlain, an American scientist, realised that the burning of fossils fuels could lead to global warming. Indeed there is increasing evidence from work that have been carried out over nearly two decades by the IPCC, which cements the conclusion that global warming and subsequent climate change are largely due to human activities. However, there continues to be considerable debate regarding the causes of climate change, that is, whether it is included by anthropogenic activities or simply within the range of natural variability in climate.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd
dc.subject Climate change
dc.subject Africa
dc.subject adaptation
dc.subject Natural Resource
dc.subject anthropogenic
dc.title Managing a changing climate in Africa: Local level vulnerabilities and adaptation experiences
dc.type Book chapter


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