3 Land Cover and Land Use Change and Climate Variability: Evidence from Longitudinal Geographic Information System Data in Shashemene and Tehuledere

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures and Tables v
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. Acknowledgements xv
7. 1 Introduction: An Outline of the Analytical Approach to ‘Governing Climate Mobility’ 1
8. PART I Climate and Land Cover Changes
9. 2 Vegetation Cover Changes in the Eastern and Upper West Regions of Ghana 23
10. 3 Land Cover and Land Use Change and Climate Variability: Evidence from Longitudinal Geographic Information System Data in Shashemene and Tehuledere 54
11. PART II Local Impacts and Adaptation Strategies
12. 4 Assessing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change and Variability in the Savannah and Forest Agro-Ecological Zones of Ghana 89
13. 5 Climate Change and Its Implications for Smallholders’ Crop Production: Change from Maize to Teff to Haricot Beans in the Shashemene District, Ethiopia 114
14. 6 Khat Cultivation and Climate Change in Tehuledere, South Wollo 132
15. 7 ‘They Are Supposed to Stay Home’: Examining the Politics of Adaptation and Climate (Im)mobility in Northern Ghana 150
16. 8 Short-Distance Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to the Impacts of Climate Change: The Case of the Shashemene District 170
17. PART III Gendered Mobility Practices
18. 9 Gender Dimensions of Climate Change-Related Migration in the Savannah and Forest Agro-Ecological Zones in Ghana 189
19. 10 Trespassing Legal and Moral Boundaries: Ethiopian Domestic Workers Returned from the Middle East 210
20. PART IV The Issue of Finance
21. 11 Climate-Related Mobility, Land and Inclusive Finance in Rural Ethiopia 233
22. 12 Conclusion: Policy Reflections on Slow-Onset Climate Mobility and the Importance of the Governance Variable 253
23. Index 263