Climate change adaptation in Africa: an historical ecology/
- New York: Routledge, 2014.
- xiii, 256 p.
An historical ecological framework: introduction -- Rock art pastoralists: historical ecology of adaptations -- Pastoralism, space, time and knowledge: social and ecological perspectives -- Coastal commerce -- interior caravan trade: pastoralists' participation ca. AD 600-1900 -- Origin of ancient well technology: historical hypotheses -- Droughts, famine, locusts and epidemics: centuries of adaptations. -- The nineteenth- and twentieth-century environmental changes: European journal narratives -- Adaptive responses to climate variability, grazing and water scarcities, ca. 1908-1962: a case study -- Challenges to future climate change adaptations: some propositions -- Conclusion -- Index.