A novel assessment of the impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation of climate change in Eastern Africa
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2019
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The evidences that climate change (CC) is a real situation have been established
by different scholars and international organizations. However, much of
the vast and burgeoning literature on CC has indicated spatial differences on the
impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation among different communities. On that
basis, various studies have grouped Eastern Africa as the most affected region by
CC and has the weakest capacity to adapt or/and mitigate the dreadful conditions
posed by CC. This chapter attempts to indicate the socioeconomic vulnerability in
eastern Africa that has been coupled by climate impacts. In doing so, a wide range
of studies reflecting the region has been reviewed. The results exhibit that there
has been a cause-effect relationship between anthropogenic activities and climate
impacts. Although both natural and anthropogenic factors cause climate change,
the latter is more pronounced in local conditions. The level of deforestation and
degradation in most eastern Africa is exceedingly high and this has subsequently
increased the emission of the top green greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, and N2O)
into the atmosphere. Thus, the resolutions of various conference of parties on CC
need to adhere by both developed and developing countries for the betterment of
the planet.
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Agricultural production, Adaptation policy, Eastern Africa, Vulnerability