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Flood Water Extent as of 18 Sept 2007
Pre-flood Water Extent as of 7 Mar 2006 Est. Flooded Area
by District
District
Kaolack
Gossas 9’958.25
1’818.94
Area
Capital
District Boundary
Main Road
Minor Road/Track
Trail
Railroad
Large Town
Town/Village
Airport
Port Facility
Source: UNOSAT 2007 Map Scale for A3: 1:150,000
Kilometers
.5
20 3 4 5 6 7
Fig.9.6 FloodinginthepeanutbasinsouthofKaolack,Senegal(September2007). SourceUNEP
(2016)
claimsinspections(chapterbySchaferetal.2018).Thishasbeentestedsuccessfully
inSenegal,Ethiopia, andNorthernKenya (Greatrexet al. 2015).
In the future, temperature changesmaycreategenuinehard limits to adaptation,
forexample,wheretemperatureincreasesarebeyondthelimitofcropsduringcritical
points in their life cycle (Ericksenet al. 2011).According to the IPCC, inAfrica
Climate change combined with other external changes (environmental, social,
political, technological) may overwhelm the ability of people to cope and adapt,
especially if the root causes of poverty and vulnerability are not addressed (Niang
et al. 2014).
Thismayleadtomigrationasanadaptiveresponse(Mortimore2010;WorldBank
2018), as it has in thepast (deSherbininet al. 2012;UNEP2011).
9.5 Conclusions
Thischapter triedtoenhanceunderstandingofhowandwhenclimatechangethreats
to ecosystemsand the services theyprovide result in losses anddamages topeople
andsociety.Indoingsoitaddressedseriousgapsintheemergingresearchanddebate
onLossandDamagefromclimatechange.Thefirstgenerationofempiricalworkon
lossesanddamageshasfocusedprimarilyonhumansystemsandtendedtooverlook
themediating role of ecosystems and the services ecosystems provide to society.
Thechapter introducedaconceptual framework for studying the complex relations
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima