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Climate Research Vol. 6, No. 2 (1996): SPECIAL 3
Vulnerability and adaptation of African ecosystems to global climate change

Publication date: February 19, 1996
Co-edited by Robert Dixon, Sandra Guill, Francis Mkanda and Ihor Hlohowskyj

Relatively little scientific information has been published in the refereed literature regarding global climate change impacts on African ecosystems. Unique papers in this special edition address the impacts of climate change on human health and the diminishing forest, agronomic, water and wildlife resources of Africa.

Contents

Foreword

WATER RESOURCES

• Strzepek KM, Yates DN, El Quosy DED
  Vulnerability assessment of water resources in Egypt to climatic change in the Nile Basin
  CR 6:89-95

• Hlohowskyj I, Brody MS, Lackey RT
  Methods for assessing the vulnerability of African fisheries resources to climate change
  CR 6:97-106

HUMAN HEALTH

• Martens WJM
  Global atmospheric change and human health: an integrated modelling approach
  CR 6:107-112

• Patz JA, Balbus JM
  Methods for assessing public health vulnerability to global climate change
  CR 6:113-125

FOREST RESOURCES

• Dixon RK, Perry JA, Vanderklein EL, Hiol Hiol F
  Vulnerability of forest resources to global climate change: case study of Cameroon and Ghana
  CR 6:127-133

• Matarira CH, Mwamuka FC
  Vulnerability of Zimbabwe forests to global climate change
  CR 6:135-136

AGRONOMIC RESOURCES

• Unganai LS
  Historic and future climatic change in Zimbabwe
  CR 6:137-145

• Makadho JM
  Potential effects of climate change on corn production in Zimbabwe
  CR 6:147-151

• Kamukondiwa W
  Alternative food crops to adapt to potential climatic change in southern Africa
  CR 6:153-155

WILDLIFE RESOURCES

• Mkanda FX
  Potential impacts of future climate change on nyala Tragelaphus angasi in Lengwe National Park, Malawi
  CR 6:157-164

COASTAL RESOURCES

• Jallow BP, Barrow MKA, Leatherman SP
  Vulnerability of the coastal zone of The Gambia to sea level rise and development of response strategies and adaptation options
  CR 6:165-177

ADAPTATION

• Markham A
  Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystems: a review of implications for policymakers and conservation biologists
  CR 6:179-191

• Smith JB, Lenhart SS
  Climate change adaptation policy options
  CR 6:193-201

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