Mukuna: Milestones in Green Transition and Clima

E. Mukuna, A. Shisanya, E. Mukuna, A. Shisanya

• Publisher: OSSREA
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9789994455867
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9789994455928
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

It is widely recognised that climate change poses significant serious threats to sustained economic growth and agricultural development, poverty reduction, food security and political stability globally. Nowhere are these challenges more marked than in Africa where two-thirds of all available land is classified either as desert or dry land, in relation to which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2013) has classified the continent as the most vulnerable to climate change variability. This anthology is a product of a call from OSSREA to collate evidence based researches in a book in a bid to assess how far countries in eastern and southern Africa are implementing the UNFCCC, Rio+20, Agenda 21 and other global and Africa-wide decisions concerning the need to address climate change. This will contribute to post-2015 development agenda for sustainable development goals (SDGs), in which climate change and disaster risk reduction will be priority areas of focus. We hope this book will serve as a valuable tool for experts, advisers and policymakers in pursing effective green growth policies and practices and achieving climate compatible development and in doing so inspire readers to choose a more sustainable pathway for humanity. It will also help in looking at climate change as both a challenge and opportunity for development. Further, this book aims at stimulating more research in climate compatible development and climate financing which have put most countries at crossroads.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acronyms
• About Authors
• INTRODUCTION - Theoretical Underpinnings of Climate Compatible Development and Green Growth in Selected Eastern and Southern African Countries
• CHAPTER ONE - Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation into Agricultural Planning and Development in Kenya
• CHAPTER TWO - Climate-Smart Agriculture in Lesotho: Initiatives and Perspectives
• CHAPTER THREE - Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity across East African Countries: Comparative Evidence from Kenya and Uganda
• CHAPTER FOUR - Adoption of Green Technologies in the Public Transport Sector: The Case of Rea Vaya BRT System, South Africa
• CHAPTER FIVE - Rural Women’s Participation and Investment in Renewable Energy as a Low-Carbon Adaptation Strategy: Evidence from the Sustainable Energy Project in Malawi
• CHAPTER SIX - Environmental and Economic Feasibility of Bioethanol Systems: Towards Climate Compatible Development
• CHAPTER SEVEN - Climate-Compatible Development in the Water Sector of Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania
• CHAPTER EIGHT - Climate Compatible Strategies in Planning and Investment in South Africa
• CHAPTER NINE - Championing a Green Future through Higher Education: Initiatives of Selected Regional Research Organisations in Africa
• CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES
• Back cover