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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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