by Institute for Global Dialogue
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Global climate change is possibly the greatest environmental challenge facing the world in the twenty-first century. Although often referred to as ‘global warming’, climate change encompasses serious disruptions to the world’s entire weather and climate patterns, including impacts on rainfall, extreme weather events and rising sea-levels, as well as moderate to extreme global temperature increases. Like most other developing countries in the world, Southern Africa nations are finding it increasingly difficult to implement adaptation activities as a result of a number of barriers. In an effort to explore and identify the full spectrum of barriers to adaptation, the research and analysis of this book is divided into five sections – political, economic, financial, technological and social barriers.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Political barriers to climate change adaptation implementation in SADC
Romy Chevallier
Chapter 2: Political and State System Barriers to the Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation in Botswana: Implications for SADC Regional Climate Change Policy
Elisha N. Toteng
Chapter 3: Social Barriers to Adaptation: Exploring implications and Identifying Options for Adaptation Policy across the SADC Region
Lindsey Jones
Chapter 4: Social and Cultural Barriers to Adaptation Implementation: the case of South Africa
Hayley Leck, Catherine Sutherland, Dianne Scott and Gregg Oelofse
Chapter 5: Economic Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation Implementation in SADC
Sheila Kiratu
Chapter 6: Economic and Trade Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation: Namibian Country Study
Laudika Kandjinga, Jessica Smith and Juliane Zeidler
Chapter 7: Financial Barriers to the Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation Measures: Financial Barriers to Adaptation Implementation
Bongani Motsa
Chapter 8: Financial Barriers to adaptation Implementation: A South African Case Study on Financing Water Adaptation
Michelle Pressend
Chapter 9: Technological barriers to climate change adaptation implementation in the SADC region
Thokozane Simalane, M. Kaggwa and S. Mutanga
Chapter 10: Technological barriers for climate change adaptation: the case of Mozambique
Boaventura. C. Cuamba, Alberto J. Tsamba and M. L. Chenene
Chapter 11: The legal Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation
Marie Parramon
Conclusion
Lesley Masters
Opening Address to the Workshop ‘Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation Implementation in SADC’ 4th April 2011
Stuart Mangold, Department of Water and Environmental Affairs
