Dans un contexte d’accompagnement des communautés côtières visant à mettre en place des stratégies d’atténuation et d’adaptation aux changements environnementaux, il nous paraît capital de comprendre la perception de ces changements par les membres de la collectivité.
Les conséquences de la variabilité climatique sur l’agriculture et les ressources en eau, ajoutées à la faible résilience des populations déjà vulnérables,
dégradent leurs moyens d’existence, leur situation alimentaire et leur bien-être.
Le diagnostic fait sur les effets du changement climatique au Bénin, montre que la sécheresse, les pluies tardives et violentes et les inondations sont trois risques climatiques majeurs.
Les impacts du changement climatique sur les territoires des
petits États insulaires en développement (PEID), tout comme
les stratégies de mitigation et d’adaptation des sociétés
vulnérables face à ces changements, font l’objet de
nombreuses études, en particulier pour les îles des Caraïbes et
du Pacifique. En sont issues des politiques de mitigation et
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This article describes the multicriteria Monitoring and Alert System designed to allow safe access to Santos Morcillo Lake (located in Ruidera Lakes Natural Park, Central Spain). In the spring of 2007, two families of cracks were observed on both banks of the lake, located near the barrage separating it from the downstream Batana Lake. A sinkhole was also detected.
The benefits of indigenous knowledge within disaster risk reduction are gradually being acknowledged and identified. However, despite this acknowledgement there continues to be a gap in reaching the right people with the correct strategies for disaster risk reduction.
n response to global climate change, loss of biodiversity, and the immense human impact on the carrying capacity of the earth systems, attention has been given to sustainable development worldwide. In this paper, we explore the emerging field of sustainability science within the context of the socio‐cultural milieu of Malawi, a sub‐Saharan African country.