Climate change: A new threat to stability in West Africa? Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso

Brown, Oli; Crawford, Alec

doi:10.1080/10246029.2008.9627482

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“…CM5A-LR IPSL (9) CM5A-MR IPSL (10) ESM-LR MPI (11) ESM-MR MPI It is important to note that for the next step, International Centre for Theoretical Physics will be called (ICT); Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute by SMH; Max Planck Institute of Meteorology by MPI, and Hadley Centre Coupled Model by METO.…”

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Climate and Extreme Rainfall Events in the Mono River Basin (West Africa): Investigating Future Changes with Regional Climate Models

Amoussou

Awoye

Vodounon

et al. 2020

Water

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This study characterizes the future changes in extreme rainfall and air temperature in the Mono river basin where the main economic activity is weather dependent and local populations are highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including flood inundations. Daily precipitation and temperature from observational datasets and Regional Climate Models (RCMs) output from REMO, RegCM, HadRM3, and RCA were used to analyze climatic variations in space and time, and fit a GEV model to investigate the extreme rainfalls and their return periods. The results indicate that the realism of the simulated climate in this domain is mainly controlled by the choice of the RCMs. These RCMs projected a 1 to 1.5 °C temperature increase by 2050 while the projected trends for cumulated precipitation are null or very moderate and diverge among models. Contrasting results were obtained for the intense rainfall events, with RegCM and HadRM3 pointing to a significant increase in the intensity of extreme rainfall events. The GEV model is well suited for the prediction of heavy rainfall events although there are uncertainties beyond the 90th percentile. The annual maxima of daily precipitation will also increase by 2050 and could be of benefit to the ecosystem services and socioeconomic activities in the Mono river basin but could also be a threat.

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Climate and Extreme Rainfall Events in the Mono River Basin (West Africa): Investigating Future Changes with Regional Climate Models

Amoussou

Awoye

Vodounon

et al. 2020

Water

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“…West Africa in general and the Sahel region in particular are characterized by some of the most variable climates on the world, with the predominant disasters being droughts (Brown and Crawford 2008) and floods (Armah et al 2008). We use the latest available Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS V) 2005, to estimate the impact of remittances on ex-ante preparedness of households.…”

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Remittances and natural disasters: ex-post response and contribution to ex-ante preparedness

Mohapatra

Joseph

Ratha

2012

Environ Dev Sustain

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Macro-and microeconomic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural disasters and in coping with the loss afterward. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase in the aftermath of natural disasters in countries that have a larger number of migrants abroad. Analysis of household survey data in Bangladesh shows that per capita consumption was higher in remittance-receiving households than in others after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and less on selling household assets or livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance-receiving households, especially those receiving remittances from high-income developed countries, tend to have housing built of concrete rather than mud and greater access to communication equipment, suggesting that they are better prepared against natural disasters.

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“…It concluded that the links between security and climate change are indirect in that climate catastrophes could exacerbate, but not usually cause, political tensions. By further eroding state legitimacy and capacity, climate change might threaten collective economic livelihood, reduce access to fresh water and food, accelerate exposure to new diseases, undermine military cohesion and increase social inequalities (Barnett 2001, p. 4; see also Brown and Crawford 2008).…”

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Clearing the air: the contribution of frame analysis to understanding climate policy in the United States

Fletcher¹

2009

Environmental Politics

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Frame analysis illuminates the politics of climate change and generates ideas about discursive strategies that can assist national governments to take effective action on climate change. The nature of frame analysis and its links to discourse theory and social constructivist epistemology are discussed, and this framework used to show how climate change politics in the USA under the second Bush Presidency (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008) have been viewed through at least three contrasting frames: scientific scepticism; climate change as a security threat; and climate change as an economic opportunity. The last of these frames, which uses the Apollo metaphor to liken the task of controlling climate change to the effort during the 1960s to put a man on the moon, is especially promising due to the wide appeal of its positive framing of climate policy in terms of technological achievement, industrial transformation and economic opportunity.

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Climate change: A new threat to stability in West Africa? Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso

Cited by 32 publications

References 5 publications

Climate and Extreme Rainfall Events in the Mono River Basin (West Africa): Investigating Future Changes with Regional Climate Models

Climate and Extreme Rainfall Events in the Mono River Basin (West Africa): Investigating Future Changes with Regional Climate Models

Remittances and natural disasters: ex-post response and contribution to ex-ante preparedness

Clearing the air: the contribution of frame analysis to understanding climate policy in the United States

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