| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages :) color illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures, pl ates and tables; Foreword; About the Authors; PART I -- Introduction; CHAPTER 1 -- Pastoralism for a Sustainable Future in East Africa -- An Introduction; An Overview; Understanding the Pastoral Production Systems; Vulnerability and Responses to Climate Change Shocks and Stresses in Pastoral Communities; Pastoral Knowledge Systems and Resilience to Climate Change; Policy Concerns in East Africa in Relation to Pastoralists; Contribution of Pastoralism to National Economies; References |
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CHAPTER 2 -- A Photographic Introduction to Pastoralism in Tanzania by Vedasto Msungu, photographs taken in 2016 in northern TanzaniaCHAPTER 3 -- Understanding the Pastoral Production System of East Africa; Introduction; Understanding Rangeland Dynamics and their Variability in Semi-Arid Lands of East Africa; Pastoralism -- Its Importance and Negligence; Sustainability of the Pastoral Production System; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 4 -- The Impacts of Climate Change on the Pastoral System in East Africa; Background; Climate Change Impacts on Rangelands |
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Climate Change Impacts on Livestock ProductionClimate Change Impacts on Communities; Sustainability of Pastoralism under Climate Change; References; PART II -- Vulnerability and Responses to Climate Change Shocks and Stresses in Pastoral Communities; CHAPTER 5 -- Dimensions of Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in Pastoral Production Systems of East Africa; Introduction; Exposure to Climate Change and Variability; Sensitivity to Climate Change and Variability; Adaptive Capacity of East African Pastoral Systems; Conclusion; References |
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CHAPTER 6 -- Role of Culture and Gender in Shaping Rangeland Management and AdaptationIntroduction; Pastoralists of East Africa; Culture and Pastoralism; Culture, Gender Roles and Responsibilities among Pastoral Societies in East Africa; Gender and Climate Change; Contribution of Culture and Gender to Climate Change Adaptation Traditional Coping Strategies for Pastoralists; Livestock mobility; Herd diversification; Livelihood diversification; Cultural Institutions for Climate Change Adaptation; References; PART III -- Pastoral Knowledge Systems and Resilience to Climate Change |
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CHAPTER 7 -- The Technical and Social Knowledge Systems of Pastoral Mobility in East AfricaIntroduction; Pastoralism as a Livelihood System; Understanding the system; Perceptions of Pastoral Mobility Patterns; The Role of Pastoral Knowledge Systems in Mobility Patterns; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 8 -- Nomadic Pastoralism and Natural Resource Use Conflicts in East Africa; Introduction; Understanding Natural Resource Use Conflicts; A conceptual framework; Systems-to-be-governed: Areas and reasons for pastoral conflicts; The natural system; The social system; The governing system |
| Summary |
Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa provides systematic and robust empirical investigations on the impact of climate change on pastoral production systems, as well as participating in the ongoing debate over the efficacy of traditional pastoralism. This book is an initial product of the Project Building Knowledge to Support Climate Change Adaptation for Pastoralist Communities in East Africa implemented by the Centre for Climate Change Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam with support from the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. Traditional pastoralism has proved to be a resilient and unique system of adaptations in a dynamic process of unpredictable climatic variability and continuous human interactions with the natural environment in dryland ecosystems. Pastoral adaptations and climate-induced innovative coping mechanisms have strategically been embedded in the indigenous social structures and resource management value systems. Pastoral livelihoods have, nevertheless, become increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts as a result of prolonged marginalization and harmful external interventions. The negative effect of global climate change has been an added dimension to the already prevailing crisis in the pastoral livelihood system, which is substantially driven by non-climatic factors of internal and external pressures of change such as population growth, bad governance and shrinking rangelands lost to competing activities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Africa, East
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Pastoral systems -- Africa, East
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Tanzania.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries.
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Climatic changes
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Pastoral systems
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Africa, East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mung'ong'o, C. G., editor.
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Yanda, Pius Z., editor.
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Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam. Centre for Climate Change Studies.
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Project Muse.
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| LC no. |
2017319381 |
| ISBN |
9987083927 |
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9789987083923 |
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