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Households’ Adaptation to Climate Change Hazards in Semi-Arid Region of Mopani, South Africa
- Source :
- Natural Hazards-Impacts, Adjustments and Resilience ISBN: 9781839623059
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- IntechOpen, 2021.
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Abstract
- New climate change realities are no longer a doubtful phenomenon, but realities to adapt and live with. Its cogent impacts and implications’ dispositions pervade all sectors and geographic scales, making no sector or geographic area immune, nor any human endeavor spared from the associated adversities. The consequences of this emerging climate order are already manifesting, with narratives written beyond the alterations in temperature and precipitation, particularly in urban areas of semi-arid region of South Africa. The need to better understand and respond to the new climate change realities is particularly acute in this region. Thus, this chapter highlights the concept of adaptation as a fundamental component of managing climate change vulnerability, through identifying and providing insight in respect of some available climate change adaptation models and how these models fit within the premises and programmes of sustainable adaptation in semi-arid region with gaps identification. The efforts of governments within the global context are examined with households’ individual adaptation strategies to climate change hazards in Mopani District. The factors hindering the success of sustainable urban climate change adaptation strategic framework and urban households’ adaptive systems are also subjects of debate and constitute the concluding remarks to the chapter.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSTORAGEANDRETRIEVAL
Climate change
Context (language use)
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Arid
Climate change vulnerability
Geography
Order (exchange)
Urban climate
Adaptive system
Adaptation (computer science)
GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISBN :
- 978-1-83962-305-9
- ISBNs :
- 9781839623059
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Natural Hazards-Impacts, Adjustments and Resilience ISBN: 9781839623059
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8cc9f5e88c1f61984d8a0fae3c8c09f3