| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research |
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Routledge advances in climate change research.
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| Contents |
An historical ecological framework: introduction -- Rock art pastoralists: historical ecology of adaptations -- Pastoralism, space, time and knowledge: social and ecological perspectives -- Coastal commerce -- interior caravan trade: pastoralists' participation ca. AD 600-1900 -- Origin of ancient well technology: historical hypotheses -- Droughts, famine, locusts and epidemics: centuries of adaptations. -- The nineteenth- and twentieth-century environmental changes: European journal narratives -- Adaptive responses to climate variability, grazing and water scarcities, ca. 1908-1962: a case study -- Challenges to future climate change adaptations: some propositions -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges. Drawing from rock art, archaeology, paleoecological data, trade, ancient hydrological technology, vegetation, social memory and historical documentation, this book creates detailed reconstructions of past climate change adaptations across Sahelian Africa. It evaluates the present and future challenges to climate change adap |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Pastoral systems -- Horn of Africa -- History
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Pastoral systems -- Africa, Eastern -- History
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Pastoral systems -- Environmental aspects -- Horn of Africa
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Pastoral systems -- Environmental aspects -- Africa, Eastern
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Climatic changes -- Horn of Africa
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Climatic changes -- Africa, Eastern
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Herders -- Africa, Eastern -- History
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Herders -- Horn of Africa -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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Climatic changes
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Herders
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Pastoral systems
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Eastern Africa
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Africa -- Horn of Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317745914 |
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1317745914 |
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9781315794907 |
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131579490X |
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