Title: Climate change and threatened communities : vulnerability, capacity, and action /
Authors: Castro, Alfonso Peter.; Taylor, Daniel C.; Brokensha, David.
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Climatic changes Developing countries.; Human beings Effect of climate on; Climatic changes; Climatic changes Economic aspects; Climatic changes Social aspects; Climatic changes; Climatic changes Economic aspects; Climatic changes Social aspects; Human beings Effect of climate on; Gemeinde; Klimaänderung; Auswirkung; Naturkatastrofer.; U-länder.; Klimatförändringar.; Developing countries; Entwicklungsländer
Abstract: Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. This book argues that planners and researchers of climate change mitigation and adaptation must take into account the knowledge and capacity of rural people, and engage them as active participants in the design and governance of interventions, not as a matter of courtesy, but because it is their right. Furthermore, inclusion of local communities in genuine partnership will likely make climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts more effective.^
Contents: Introduction / A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, and David W. Brokensha -- Climate change and forest conservation : a REDD flag for Central African forest people? / Philip Burnham -- Social vulnerability, climatic variability, and uncertainty in rural Ethiopia : a study of South Wollo and Oromiya Zones of eastern Amhara Region / A. Peter Castro -- Farmers on the frontline : adaptation and change in Malawi / Kate Wellard, Daimon Kambewa, and Sieglinde Snapp -- Risk and abandonment and the meta-narrative of climate change / Dan Taylor -- Mobilizing knowledge to build adaptive capacity : lessons from southern Mozambique / L. Jen Shaffer -- Climate change and the future of onion and potato production in West Darfur, Sudan : a case study of Zalingei locality / Yassir Hassan Satti and A. Peter Castro -- Comparing knowledge of and experience with climate change across three glaciated mountain regions / K.W. Dunbar, Julie Brugger, Christine Jurt, and Ben Orlove --^