Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

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dc.contributor.author	Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
dc.date.accessioned	2014-04-04T23:45:48Z
dc.date.available	2014-04-04T23:45:48Z
dc.date.issued	2013-04-04
dc.description.abstract	In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be threatened due to fluctuations in rainfall and temperature, and to extreme weather events. Because weather extremes are the main way that climate change manifests itself, water governance is a crucial aspect of climate change resilience. Following an overview of the ways climate change is affecting three cities in Africa, Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi discusses the equity and climate justice implications, and then gives examples of ways in which a range of local community organizations are extending their current activities to address these challenges through innovative new programs and initiatives at the grassroots. This approach has implications for communities worldwide; it is a process of building on existing organizations’ aptitudes and strengths in the light of local knowledge of climate challenges, and creating partnerships to build equity-enhancing new methods of protecting people’s subsistence. This book should be of interest to climate change scholars, activists and policy-makers, as well as development studies researchers and practitioners.
dc.identifier.citation	Perkins, P. E. (2013). Water and climate change in Africa: challenges and community initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi. London: Routledge.
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-415-82203-9
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/27508
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Routledge
dc.rights.article	http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415822039/
dc.rights.publisher	http://www.routledge.com
dc.subject	climate change
dc.subject	environment
dc.subject	politics
dc.subject	resources
dc.subject	sustainable development
dc.title	Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
dc.type	Book

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Description:: 1. Introduction: The Importance of Community-based Organizations for Equitable Water Governance in times of Climate Change by Patricia E. Perkins

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Description:: 2. Economic, Ecological and Climate Justice - Literacy and Politics by Wahu Kaara

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Description:: 4. Kilimanjaro Initiative: Working with Youth in Nairobi by Sadique Bilal Issa

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Description:: 10. A Hot Climate for Civil Society Engagement with Climate Change and Water in eThekwini (Durban) by Mary Galvin

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