Climate Change in Africa (eBook)

This edited collection chronicles the public policy responses to climate change and current and potential impacts that will affect critical and priority sectors within and across African countries now and in the coming decades. Contributions cover governance and policy responses to climate change, emphasizing continental governance and policy responses, national governance and policy responses (what selected countries in Africa are doing), and local or community policy and programmatic responses (what some selected major African communities are doing). Each chapter adopts multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from social and policy sciences, emphasizing existing gaps, particularly in the area of decision-making, governance and local climate action. The book offers both theoretical and practical contributions, with the aim of advancing academic discourse and thinking, policymaking and implementation of climate interventions in Africa.

This edited collection chronicles the public policy responses to climate change and current and potential impacts that will affect critical and priority sectors within and across African countries now and in the coming decades. Contributions cover governance and policy responses to climate change, emphasizing continental governance and policy responses, national governance and policy responses (what selected countries in Africa are doing), and local or community policy and programmatic responses (what some selected major African communities are doing). Each chapter adopts multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from social and policy sciences, emphasizing existing gaps, particularly in the area of decision-making, governance and local climate action. The book offers both theoretical and practical contributions, with the aim of advancing academic discourse and thinking, policymaking and implementation of climate interventions in Africa.

Michael Addaney is a lecturer in environmental planning at the Department of Land Management of University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana. Michael is also a Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

DB (Vain) Jarbandhan is associate professor and the Director of the Centre for Public Management and Governance in the College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

William Kwadwo Dumenu is a research scientist at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana and a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Sustainable Food System Institute, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Science, Germany.