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标题：Climate change, impacts and adaptations in the coastal communities in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania
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作者：James G. Lyimo ; James G. Lyimo ; James O. Ngana 等
期刊名称：Environmental Economics
印刷版ISSN：1998-6041
电子版ISSN：1998-605X
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：63-71
语种：English
出版社：LLC "CPC "Business Perspectives"
摘要：Climate change is posing a serious risk to poverty reduction strategies and threatens to undermine decades of development efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals. The adverse impacts of climate change are now wide spread among many communities worldwide including coastal communities in Tanzania. This study assessed the impact of climate change/variability on rural livelihoods, including vulnerability and existing adaptive capacities to climate change and variability. Different methods namely documentary search, structured questionnaire interviews, field observations and focus group discussion were used to complement each other. Finding from the study has shown that Bagamoyo community is experiencing impact of climate change and variability. They experienced it through factors which greatly affect their livelihood including variability in rainfall patterns and amount, increased incidences of drought, saltwater intrusion into estuaries and freshwater aquifers. Such impacts have greatly affected people’s livelihood. Consequently, there has been increased pressure on forest resources for wood and charcoal to compensate for the affected livelihood sources such as crop production. The extent of vulnerability and the adaptive capacity to the impact of climate change and variability is variable from one household to another depending on their livelihood assets. Communities have multiple adaptation strategies including growing of drought tolerant crops, increased frequency of fishing, cultivation of wetlands, as well as keeping small stocks. These adaptation strategies could lead to long-term sustainability if enhanced and promoted.
关键词：climate change; vulnerability; adaptive strategies; livelihood; coastal areas