TY - BOOK AU - Oba,Gufu TI - Climate change adaptation in Africa: an historical ecology T2 - Routledge advances in climate change research SN - 9781138013995 (hardback) AV - SF55.H67 O43 2014 U1 - 636.08/450963 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Pastoral systems KW - Horn of Africa KW - History KW - Africa, Eastern KW - Environmental aspects KW - Climatic changes KW - Herders KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; An historical ecological framework -- Rock art pastoralists : historical ecology of adaptations -- Pastoralism, space, time and knowledge : the social and ecological perspectives -- Coastal commerce-interior caravan trade : pastoralists participation ca. AD 600-1900 -- Origin of the ancient well technology : historical hypotheses -- Droughts, famine, locusts and epidemics : centuries of adaptations -- The nineteenth and twentieth century environmental changes : European journal narratives -- Adaptations to climate variability, grazing and water scarcities in the southern lowlands c. 1908-1962 : a case study -- Challenges to future climate change adaptations : some propositions -- Conclusion ER -