DOI: 10.1002/wcc.411
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84971595570
论文题名: Impacts of drought and responses of rural populations in West Africa: a systematic review
作者: Gautier D ; , Denis D ; , Locatelli B
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2016
卷: 7, 期: 5 起始页码: 666
结束页码: 681
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Agriculture
; Decision making
; Drought
; Adaptation strategies
; Adaptation to climate changes
; Climate variation
; Collective action
; Environmental change
; Environmental contexts
; Integrated analysis
; Systematic Review
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; climate change
; collective action
; drought
; rural population
; strategic approach
; West Africa
英文摘要: In West Africa, climate variations and droughts have always affected livelihoods but have also triggered adaptation strategies. A better understanding of the impacts of drought and the responses of West African populations is indispensable for researchers and decision makers in the current and future context of multiple socioeconomic and environmental changes, including climate change. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on drought in West Africa. In this paper, we highlight controversial issues and identify knowledge gaps. Although drought has been widely considered as a major problem in West Africa, there is a need to frame it within a set of multiple threats faced by local populations and to understand how droughts act as a trigger in economic, societal, and environmental contexts. The literature on responses to drought focuses on agricultural and individual responses, while diversification, migration, and tree-based or livestock-based responses are less frequently addressed. More research is needed on the effectiveness and on the unexpected effects of responses of populations, states, and NGOs, as well as on the interactions between different responses. To understand the complexity of impacts and responses, the context in which they occur and how individual and collective actions interact within households or communities needs to be taken into account. Ecosystems and agriculture offer many goods and services that are suitable for adaptation and the different landscape components should be analyzed together. Such historical, contextual, and integrated analyses would better inform new policies and projects for adaptation to climate change. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:666–681. doi: 10.1002/wcc.411. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76208
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: UR BSEF, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France; AgroParisTech - Ecole doctorale ABIES, Paris, France; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Lima, Peru
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Gautier D,, Denis D,, Locatelli B. Impacts of drought and responses of rural populations in West Africa: a systematic review[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2016-01-01,7(5)