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Climate Change and Food Security - Africa and the Caribbean (Hardcover): Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Climate Change and Food Security - Africa and the Caribbean (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
R4,159 Discovery Miles 41 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security - availability, accessibility, stability of supply and appropriate nourishment - as well as the entire food system - food production, marketing, processing, distribution and prices. Climate Change and Food Security focuses on the challenge to food security posed by a changing climate. The book brings together many of the critical global concerns of climate change and food security through local cases based on empirical studies undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Focusing on risk reduction and the complex nature of vulnerability to climate change, the book includes chapters on the responsiveness of farmers based on traditional knowledge, as well as the critical phenomenon of food insecurity in the urban setting. Other chapters are devoted to efforts made to strengthen resilience through long-term development, with interventions at the regional and national levels of scale. It also examines cross-cutting themes that underlie the strategies employed to achieve food security, including equity, gender, livelihoods and governance. This edited volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, food security, environmental management and sustainable development.

Climate Change and Food Security - Africa and the Caribbean (Paperback): Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Climate Change and Food Security - Africa and the Caribbean (Paperback)
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
R1,319 Discovery Miles 13 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security - availability, accessibility, stability of supply and appropriate nourishment - as well as the entire food system - food production, marketing, processing, distribution and prices. Climate Change and Food Security focuses on the challenge to food security posed by a changing climate. The book brings together many of the critical global concerns of climate change and food security through local cases based on empirical studies undertaken in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Focusing on risk reduction and the complex nature of vulnerability to climate change, the book includes chapters on the responsiveness of farmers based on traditional knowledge, as well as the critical phenomenon of food insecurity in the urban setting. Other chapters are devoted to efforts made to strengthen resilience through long-term development, with interventions at the regional and national levels of scale. It also examines cross-cutting themes that underlie the strategies employed to achieve food security, including equity, gender, livelihoods and governance. This edited volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, food security, environmental management and sustainable development.

Environment Management in the Caribbean - Policy and Practice (Paperback): Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Environment Management in the Caribbean - Policy and Practice (Paperback)
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Environmental Management in the Caribbean reflects differences of perspective and conflicts of interest revealed through the research and professional experience of the contributors to this book. Their contributions cover the themes of national parks and protected areas, freshwater management, pollution and waste management, disaster risk reduction, environmental education and behaviour. Wide ranging in its regional scope (with cases from Barbados, Curacao, the Eastern Caribbean, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago), this collection challenges national inadequacies in formal policy and support of environmental management, resulting in ad hoc practices by NGOs and individuals. Environmental Management in the Caribbean provides an excellent resource for teachers, students and researchers, as well as policy makers and practitioners engaged in environmental management.

Natural Resources Management for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean (Paperback, illustrated Edition): Elizabeth... Natural Resources Management for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean (Paperback, illustrated Edition)
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, Ivan Goodbody (Professor Emeritus, Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the International Earth Summit convened in Rio de Janeiro in 1994, all nations of the world were mandated to protect the environment for the benefit of present and future generations. This collection introduces the reader to the major issues involved in the management of a number of resources critical to Caribbean development. The chapters discuss the sustainability of water, fisheries and agriculture in the region from a variety of perspectives. Particular emphasis is also given to the use of energy, recreation and coastal resource management and their impact on the fragile ecosystem. The book makes a contribution to the ongoing debate of sustainable environmental management within the region and the world.

Solid Waste Management - The Experience of Jamaica since the 1950s (Paperback): Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Solid Waste Management - The Experience of Jamaica since the 1950s (Paperback)
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
R1,099 Discovery Miles 10 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Solid waste has become a major consequence of development and modernization, yet some of the greatest challenges to its management are felt most keenly in the developing countries. This is part of the larger paradox of development; namely, that factors that create the most intransigent problems currently facing the developing countries are invariably those which derive from development itself.Introduction This volume presents a collection of papers which, with perspectives from Africa and the Caribbean, raise critical issues in the management of solid waste. It is intended to offer a basis for discussion among the wide range of disciplines and sectors involved in solid waste management and suggest directions for future work both in the theoretical and practical dimensions of the challenge with which developing countries are confronted.

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