Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel
Author : Victoria van der Land
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781367217522
Author : Victoria van der Land
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9781367217522
Author : Victoria van der Land
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315440148
The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future. Slow-onset environmental changes, such as increasing rainfall variability and rising temperature, are presumed to worsen the livelihood conditions and to increase the out-migration from the affected regions. Based on qualitative and quantitative data from study areas in Mali and Senegal, this book examines the relationship between population dynamics, livelihoods and environment in the Sahel region, focussing specifically on motives for migration. Critiquing the assumption that environmental stress is the dominating migration driver, the author demonstrates the important role of individual aspirations and social processes, such as educational opportunities and the pull of urban lifestyles. In doing so, the book provides a more nuanced picture of the environment-migration nexus, arguing that slow-onset environmental changes may actually be less important as drivers of migration in the Sahel than they are often depicted in the media and climate change literature. This is a valuable resource for academics and students of environmental sociology, migration and development studies.
Author : David Rain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429969430
"A remarkable blend of geography, demography, sociology, development economics, history, cultural anthropology, ecology, politics, sharia (Muslim religious law), and government policies.... This book dispels many misconceptions and is an education in itself." Choice
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Conflict management
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Author : Collectif
Publisher : IRD Éditions
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2709924250
The future of West Africa depends on the capacity of its agriculture to ensure the food security of the population, which should double in the next 20 years, while facing up to the new risks resulting from climate warming. Indeed, the changes in temperature and precipitations already operating and that should become more marked will have serious effects on agricultural production and water resources in this part of Africa in the near future. One of the keys to meeting this new challenge is the adaptation of rural societies to climate risks. To gain better knowledge of the potential, processes and barriers, this book analyses recent and ongoing trends in the climate and the environment and examines how rural societies perceive and integrate them: what are the impacts of these changes, what vulnerabilities are there but also what new opportunities do they bring? How do the populations adapt and what innovations do they implement—while the climate-induced effects interact with the social, political, economic and technical changes that are in motion in Africa? By associating French and African scientists (climatologists, agronomists, hydrologists, ecologists, demographers, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and others) in a multidisciplinary approach, the book makes a valuable contribution to better anticipation of climatic risks and the evaluation of African societies to stand up to them.
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on the Sahel
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Environmental policy
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Author : Julia Tischler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004410848
The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.
Author : National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Board on Science and Technology for International Development. Advisory Committee on the Sahel
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Environmental policy
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Author : Frank Laczko
Publisher : UN
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Gradual and sudden environmental changes are resulting in substantial human movement and displacement, and the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected to rise with unprecedented impacts on lives and livelihoods. Despite the potential challenge, there has been a lack of strategic thinking about this policy area partly due to a lack of data and empirical research on this topic. Adequately planning for and managing environmentallyinduced migration will be critical for human security. The papers in this volume were first presented at the Research Workshop on Migration and the Environment: Developing a Global Research Agenda held in Munich, Germany in April 2008. One of the key objectives on the Munich workshop was to address the need for more sound empirical research and identify priority areas of research for policy makers in the field of migration and the environment.
Author : Tor Arve Benjaminsen
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789171064769
Through a number of case studies from the West African Sahel, this book links and explores natural resources management from the perspectives of politics, property and production.