Locating climate insecurity. Where are the most vulnerable places in Africa?

Autor/inn/en	Busby, Joshua W.; Smith, Todd G.; White, Kaiba L.; Strange, Shawn M.
Titel	Locating climate insecurity. Where are the most vulnerable places in Africa? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ortung von Klimaunsicherheit. Wo sind die am meisten gefährdeten Orte in Afrika?
Quelle	Aus: Scheffran, Jürgen (Hrsg.); Brzoska, Michael (Hrsg.); Brauch, Hans Günter (Hrsg.); Link, Peter Michael (Hrsg.); Schilling, Janpeter (Hrsg.): Climate change, human security and violent conflict. Challenges for societal stability. Berlin: Springer (2012) S. 463-511 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace. 8
Beigaben	Tabellen 7; Karten 31
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-642-28625-4
DOI	10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1_23
Schlagwörter	Forschungsmethode; Methodologie; Vergleichende Forschung; Gewalt; Konflikt; Vulnerabilität; Äthiopien; Afrika; Bevölkerungsdichte; Geografie; Gesundheitswesen; Gewalt; Infrastruktur; Konflikt; Politik; Sicherheit; Ostafrika; Methodologie; Forschungsmethode; Gefährdung; Knappheit; Vergleichende Forschung; Geografie; Klimawandel; Gesundheitswesen; Bevölkerungsdichte; Entwicklungsland; Politik; Knappheit; Privathaushalt; Ressource; Gefährdung; Infrastruktur; Konferenzschrift; Sicherheit; Konferenzschrift; Afrika; Ostafrika; Subsahara-Afrika; Äthiopien
Abstract	"Africa is widely recognized as one of the continents most vulnerable to climate change. The continent's vulnerability is partly driven by unfortunate geography, where the physical effects of climate change are likely to be among the most severe on the planet. It is also largely due to the low adaptive capacity of many African states, a product of problems in their economies, healthcare and education systems, infrastructure, and governance. These challenges are not uniformly distributed within Africa. In order to identify areas of vulnerability and prioritize limited resources, it is not sufficient to say 'Ethiopia is vulnerable' without explaining which parts of Ethiopia are particularly vulnerable and for what reasons. Recognizing where physical exposure to climate change conjoins with other dimensions of vulnerability is an important area for research with significant policy relevance. With information on which parts of the continent are most vulnerable to climate change, Africans themselves can prioritize their scarce resources accordingly and the international policy community can better target adaptation assistance that is likely to become increasingly important. This chapter opens with a discussion of vulnerability and includes a review of several exemplars of vulnerability indices (23.2). The next section presents an overview of the approach of the authors to vulnerability and a detailed review of the methodology (23.3). The concluding section presents the chapter's aggregate findings and several maps of areas of particular concern (23.4)." (excerpt).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2013/3