Final  Call for Papers: AFRICA 2030- STREGHTENING THE CAPACITY OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO HANDLE

THE CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Nairobi, Kenya 23rd-24th January 2020, Deadline for abstracts: 30th October 2019

It is widely known that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. As the

Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

has shown, climate change is expected to have widespread impacts on African societies, and

Africans’ interaction with the natural environment. There are also signs that the impacts of

climate change are already being felt, not only in terms of increases in temperature, but also

in respect of agriculture (with lower crop yields) and the availability of water resources, among

others. The links between climate change and the incidence of diseases -such as malaria- are also

becoming clearer.

 

The above state of affairs illustrates the need for a better understanding of how climate change

affects African countries, and for the identification of processes, methods and tools which may help African

nations to adapt. There is also a perceived need to showcase successful examples of how to cope with the

social, economic and political problems posed by climate change in Africa.

 

It is against this background that “3rd SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN AFRICA”

is being organised by the University of Nairobi (Kenya), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK),

the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” of

the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the International Climate Change

Information and Research Programme (ICCIRP) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iccirp/.

It follows the first and second, highly successful Symposia held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Ibadan, Nigeria.

 

Under the title ”AFRICA 2030- STREGHTENING THE CAPACITY OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO HANDLE THE CHALLENGES

OF A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT”, the event will discuss the means via which African nations may foster

their resilience and their capacity to adapt, meaning that it will serve the purpose of

showcasing experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation

in African countries, which may be useful or implemented in other countries in the continent.

 

The Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, organised in the framework of the

2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, and Agenda 2036 of the African Union,

mobilising African and non-African scholars undertaking research and/or executing climate

change projects in the African continent.

 

Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interactions among the various stakeholders working

in the field of climate change adaptation in the African continent, the aims of the Symposium

are as follows:

 

I. to provide research institutions, universities, NGOs and enterprises from Africa and those working
in Africa with an opportunity to display and present their works in the field of climate change adaptation;

 

II. to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of

climate change adaptation projects, especially successful initiatives and good practice across the African

continent;

 

III. to discuss methodological approaches and experiences deriving from case studies and projects, which

aim to show how climate change adaptation may be implemented in practice;

 

IV. to network the participants and provide a platform so they can explore possibilities for

cooperation.

Last but not least, a further aim of the event will be to document and disseminate the wealth

of experiences available today. To this purpose, the "African Handbook of Climate Change

Adaptation: learning, sharing and advancing efforts to promote climate change adaptation in Africa"

will be published, with all accepted papers. This will be a further volume of the award-winning

book series “Climate Change Management”  https://www.springer.com/series/8740 

published by Springer, which since its creation in 2008

has become the world´s leading book series on climate change management.

Final deadline for abstracts: 30th October 2019.

 

Further details on the event can be seen at: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/events/africa2020.html.