Overview
- Applies Indigenous knowledge systems to tackle climate change
- Contributes to scaling up resilience to climate change
- Documents different geographical locations in Africa
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Role of IKS in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
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Integration of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Systems to Scale Up Resilience to Climate Change
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Integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Climate Change Governance and Planning
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Keywords
- Integration of Indigenous knowledge in climate policy
- Strengthen climate governance through Indigenous knowledge
- Farmers’ Indigenous adaptation strategies in Nigeria
- Indigenous knowledge systems of pastoralists in Africa
- Indigenous spiritual beliefs and ecological conservation
- Women’s utilisation of Indigenous knowledge in Africa
- Indigenous perspectives on gender roles in Africa
- Co-production and integration of knowledge systems
- Indigenous knowledge and veld-fire reduction
- Indigenous and scientific knowledge systems collaboration
- Integrating Indigenous and scientific forecasts in West Africa
- Enchancing climate governance through Indigenous knowledge
- Capitalism and Indigenous knowledge systems destruction
About this book
This book investigates indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby highlighting its role in facilitating adaptation to climate variability and change, and also demystifying the challenges that prevent it from being integrated with scientific knowledge in climate governance schemes. Indigenous people and their priceless knowledge rarely feature when decision-makers prepare for future climate change. This book showcases how Indigenous knowledge facilitates adaptation to climate change, including how collaborations with scientific knowledge have cascaded into building people’s resilience to climatic risks. This book also pays delicate attention to the factors fueling epistemic injustice towards Indigenous knowledge, which hampers it from featuring in climate governance schemes across sub-Saharan Africa.
The key insights shared in this book illuminate the issues that contribute meaningfully towards the actualisation of the UN SDG 13 and promote mechanisms forraising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in sub-Saharan Africa.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Llewellyn Leonard is Professor at the School of Ecological and Human Sustainability, University of South Africa. His research interests include environmental justice; sustainability; risk communication; environmental leadership; civil society-state-industry relations; climate change adaptation and mitigation, mining and tourism impacts and political ecology/economy. He has published numerousarticles in international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Governance
Book Subtitle: A Sub-Saharan African Perspective
Editors: Eromose E. Ebhuoma, Llewellyn Leonard
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99411-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99410-5Published: 05 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99413-6Published: 06 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99411-2Published: 04 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Climate, general, Development Studies