Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 321-344

  Shackleton, Sheona ^a   Ziervogel, Gina ^b   Sallu, Susannah ^c   Gill, Thomas ^d   Tschakert, Petra ^d  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; REGIONAL PLANNING;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84926529465     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.335     Document Type: Review

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