Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases

Resilient or Vulnerable Livelihoods? Assessing Livelihood Dynamics and Trajectories in Rural Botswana

(2017) Susannah M. Sallu et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Differentiating capacities as a means to sustainable climate change adaptation

(2014) H.C. Eakin et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Understanding the adaptation deficit: Why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?

(2014) Samuel Fankhauser et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

On the nature of barriers to climate change adaptation

(2013) G. Robbert Biesbroek et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Limits to adaptation to climate change: a risk approach

(2013) Kirstin Dow et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Limits to adaptation

(2013) Kirstin Dow et al.   Nature Climate Change

Everyday realities of climate change adaptation in Mozambique

(2012) Luis Artur et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Climate variability and change or multiple stressors? Farmer perceptions regarding threats to livelihoods in Zimbabwe and Zambia

(2012) Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient

(2012) R. W. Kates et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptation to climate change and other stressors among commercial and small-scale South African farmers

(2012) Julie Wilk et al.   Regional Environmental Change

A Perspective on Sea Level Rise and Coastal Storm Surge from Southern and Eastern Africa: A Case Study Near Durban, South Africa

(2012) Andrew A. Mather et al.   Water

Farmers' perceptions of adaptation to climate change and water stress in a South African rural community

(2012) S. Gandure et al.   Environmental Development

Farmers’ perception and adaptation to climate change: a case study of Sekyedumase district in Ghana

(2012) B. Y. Fosu-Mensah et al.   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Gender and occupational perspectives on adaptation to climate extremes in the Afram Plains of Ghana

(2011) Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Smallholder adaptation to climate change: dynamics and limits in Northern Ghana

(2011) Wolfram Laube et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Coping with Multiple Stresses in Rural South Africa

(2011) Claire H. Quinn et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Challenges of adaptation to climate change across multiple scales: a case study of network governance in two European countries

(2011) Sirkku Juhola et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Exploring social barriers to adaptation: Insights from Western Nepal

(2011) Lindsey Jones et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Linking poverty, HIV/AIDS and climate change to human and ecosystem vulnerability in southern Africa: consequences for livelihoods and sustainable ecosystem management

(2011) Sheona E. Shackleton et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY

Integrating indigenous knowledge with conventional science: Enhancing localised climate and weather forecasts in Nessa, Mulanje, Malawi

(2011) Miriam Kalanda-Joshua et al.   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH

Conceptualising climate change in rural Australia: community perceptions, attitudes and (in)actions

(2011) Laurie Buys et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Adapting climate research for development in Africa

(2011) Declan Conway   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Cultural styles of participation in farmers’ discussions of seasonal climate forecasts in Uganda

(2010) Carla Roncoli et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Are we adapting to climate change?

(2010) Lea Berrang-Ford et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Adaptation to climate change in Africa: Challenges and opportunities identified from Ethiopia

(2010) Declan Conway et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation

(2010) S. C. Moser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Agriculture, livelihoods and climate change in the West African Sahel

(2010) Keffing Sissoko et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Climate change risk responses in East African cities: need, barriers and opportunities

(2010) Justus Kithiia   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Assessing the process and options for implementing National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA): a case study from Burkina Faso

(2010) Fobissie Blese Kalame et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Adapting to climate change to sustain food security

(2010) Gina Ziervogel et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

The multidimensional nature of biodiversity and social dynamics and implications for contemporary rural livelihoods in remote Kalahari settlements, Botswana

(2009) S. M. Sallu et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate change scenarios and the development of adaptation strategies in Africa: challenges and opportunities

(2009) G Ziervogel et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Adaptation to climate change in Ethiopia and South Africa: options and constraints

(2009) Elizabeth Bryan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: local insights to enhance policy in southern Africa

(2009) Lindsay C. Stringer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

(2009) Temesgen Tadesse Deressa et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Cultural barriers to climate change adaptation: A case study from Northern Burkina Faso

(2009) Jonas Østergaard Nielsen et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Temporality and the problem with singling out climate as a current driver of change in a small West African village

(2009) J.Ø. Nielsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Perceptions of climate change, multiple stressors and livelihoods on marginal African coasts

(2009) Matthew Bunce et al.   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?

(2008) W. Neil Adger et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Human Vulnerability to Climate Variability in the Sahel: Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies in Northern Burkina Faso

(2008) Bruno Barbier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Adaptation as a Political Process: Adjusting to Drought and Conflict in Kenya’s Drylands

(2008) Siri Eriksen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania

(2008) Jouni Paavola   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Perceptions of climate risk in Mozambique: Implications for the success of adaptation strategies

(2008) A PATT et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

“If only it would rain”: Farmers’ perceptions of rainfall and drought in semi-arid central Tanzania

(2008) M.F.W. Slegers   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS