This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of climate change on the tropical ecosystems in Tanzania. Topics covered include agriculture, marine resources, wildlife, and weather forecasting. The analyses concentrate on real and potential impacts of climate change, focusing on changes in temperature and precipitation. Adaptive capacity and strategies for enhancing resilience (such as changing crop types and crop patterns in farming) are described.Particular attention is paid to climate change impacts on vulnerability and resilience in communities and ecosystems with special reference to extreme events such as droughts and flooding.The book: is among the first books to analyse in detail climate change effects in Tanzania, highlighting the unique vulnerability of communities and ecosystems in East Africa from a socio-ecological point of view.discusses potential future threats as well as providing solutions to current problems.examines the application of local knowledge systems when formulating solutions.The book is essential reading for researchers on climate change and socio-economic impacts in tropical rural economies and of broad interest to climate change scientists, tropical ecologists, conservationists and agricultural scientists.
Mabhuye, Edmund B.: - Dr. Edmund Mabhuye is a lecturer in the institute of Resource Assessment at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Mung'ong'o, Claude G.: - C.G. Mung'ong'o is a retired Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam,, Dar es Salaam. Born in late 1946, he holds a PhD degree in Geography and Environmental Science from Stockholm University, Sweden, and has more than 30 years of research experience in Environmental Sociology (including climate change), Pastoral Livelihood Analysis and Food Security, and general rural development. He has been involved in numerous socio-economic studies as a member of various natural resource use studies. He has taught several post-graduate courses at the University of Dar es Salaam, including the Political ecology of natural resource management, Social survey methods, Impacts of climate change on human society and ecosystems, and Pastoralism and climate change governance.
Yanda, Pius Z.: - P.Z. Yanda is a Research Professor at the Centre for Climate Change Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam. He has served as a Regional Director for Pan African START Secretariat and National REDD+ Secretariat; and conducted a number of climate change related studies. Key focus areas have been on climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation. He teaches courses on biodiversity conservation, science of climate change, vulnerability to impacts of climate change, responses to climate change, physical geography, remote sensing and GIS, Integrated Research Methodologies.
