Nexus between climate change and environmental social work in Africa
Ezra Pedzisai,
Sunungurai Charamba,
Rudo Mukurazhizha
Abstract:Disasters indiscriminately cause huge global economic losses worth tens of billions of dollars and often result in deaths of millions of people annually. As such, the on-going climate change is the world’s biggest disaster, especially for the most vulnerable African countries that are less economically developed, dependent largely on primary industries, which are predominantly reliant on climate-controlled ecosystems as well as depend on rain-fed agro-based livelihoods characterised by abject poverty. Meanwhil… Show more
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