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Adapting to global change in a diverse landscape: the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve

Author: Davis, C ; Archer, Emma RM ; Maserumule, R ; Stevens, N ; Sinden, LA Date: Apr 2010 This study will draw on the findings of a significant amount of research that has already taken place in the area. There is a keen desire amongst diverse stakeholders to access global change information (for example, the use of such information ... Read more
Climate change – a critical emerging issue

Author: Archer, Emma RM Date: 2010 Science on observed trends in climate and projected future climate change has evolved substantially in the last few years. Different sub-regions of South Africa have shown, and are likely to continue to show, distinct climate changes. Surface ... Read more
Current and future perspectives on forest-water goods and services

Author: Claassen, Marius ; Vira, B ; Xu, J ; Gyawali, D ; Martin-Ortega, J ; Pol, PO ; Creed, IF ; Ellison, D ; McNulty, SG ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Jul 2018 This chapter utilises the ecosystem services framework to understand the consequences of change in forest ecosystem functions and water-related implications. Using a scenario analysis, the chapter explores the likely changes in attributes of ... Read more
Dealing with risk

Author: Cull, T ; Vincent, K ; Davis, C ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Nov 2011 This chapter is concerned with how we can respond to climate change in order to reduce its adverse impacts. Following international practice, these responses can broadly be grouped into mitigation (reduction in the causes of climate change) ... Read more
Determinants of the forest-water relationship

Author: McNulty, SG ; Archer, Emma RM ; Gush, Mark B ; Van Noordwijk, M ; Ellison, D ; Blanco, JA ; Xu, J ; Bishop, K ; Wei, XA ; Vira, B Date: Jul 2018 Our analysis of forest-water relations addresses four important subsystems of a linked planetary social-ecological system: climate, forests, water and people. In this chapter, we consider how each of these subsystems is changing (trend) and ... Read more
Environmental change in Bushbuckridge

Author: Erasmus, BFN ; Coetzer, K ; Mambo, J ; Archer, Emma RM ; Fisher, JT ; Asner, GP Date: May 2011 Bushbuck Ridge is a typical cultural landscape where the interdependency of people and the environment shape the savanna ecosystem goods and services upon which many people are dependent. The forced resettlement of people in the apartheid ... Read more
Forest landscape hydrology in a ‘New Normal’ era of climate and land use change

Author: Jones, JA ; Wei, XA ; Van Noordwijk, M ; Creed, IF ; Gush, Mark B ; Ellison, B ; Blanco, JA ; Bishop, K ; McNulty, SG ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Jul 2018 This chapter aims to clarify the effects that changing climate and quantity, quality and pattern of tree cover in forests have on the way water becomes available for human use and ecosystem integrity. To do this, the chapter synthesises current ... Read more
Forest, trees and water on a changing planet: How contemporary science can inform policy and practice

Author: Creed, IF ; Van Noordwijk, M ; Archer, Emma RM ; Claassen, Marius ; Ellison, D ; Jones, JA ; McNulty, SG ; Vira, B ; Wei, XA Date: Jul 2018 Trees and people both need water. With a growing global population and continued forest loss and degradation - a key question becomes: are trees and people competitors or friends? The relationship between forests, trees and water is an issue ... Read more
Future climate change over Southern Africa

Author: Davis, Claire L ; Engelbrecht, Francois A ; Tadross, M ; Wolski, P ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Oct 2017 This chapter presents key messages drawn from recent subsets of future climate projections for the southern Africa region. Material in this chapter is drawn from Chapter 3 of Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa ... Read more
Gendered vulnerability to climate change in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Author: Vincent, K ; Cull, T ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Oct 2010 It is well-known that women in developing countries tend to be more dependent on natural resources than men, and that female-headed households tend to rely more on agricultural livelihoods than male-headed households. Climate change is projected ... Read more
Governance options for addressing changing forest-water relations

Author: Ellison, D ; Claassen, Marius ; Van Noordwijk, M ; Sullivan, CA ; Vira, B ; Xu, J ; Archer, Emma RM ; Haywood, Lorren K Date: Jul 2018 From a systems perspective, governance represents a key driver when it comes to the potential for addressing rapid environmental, climate, social and even technological change. As our knowledge of forest-water interactions and their potential ... Read more
Management options for dealing with changing forest-water relations

Author: Vira, B ; Ellison, D ; McNulty, SG ; Archer, Emma RM ; Bishop, K ; Claassen, Marius ; Creed, IF ; Gush, Mark B ; Gyawali, D ; Martin-Ortega, J Date: Jul 2018 This chapter addresses potential forest and water management strategies based on our understanding of the 'new normal', the challenges imposed, in particular, by climate change and human population growth, and our evolving knowledge of ... Read more
Regional climate change strategies and initiatives

Author: Archer, Emma RM Date: Oct 2017 The transboundary nature of climate change necessitates regional cooperation and action in the form of comprehensive strategies and policy. Article 5(2) (a) of the Treaty of the Southern African Development Community, 1992 (SADC Treaty) states ... Read more
Regional scenarios of future climate change over southern Africa

Author: Tadross, M ; Davis, C ; Engelbrecht, F ; Joubert, A ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Nov 2011 In this chapter, the authors provide projections of regional climate change so that decision-makers can better understand the nature of the projected changes, and how to take this into account when formulating and implementing adaptive strategies. Read more
Risks of adverse impacts from climate change in Southern Africa

Author: Vincent, K ; Cull, T ; Davis, C ; Archer, Emma RM Date: Nov 2011 In this chapter, the terms hazard exposure, sensitivity (or biophysical vulnerability), adaptive capacity (or its opposite - social vulnerability) and risk are introduced (see Box 4.1 for key definitions). Whether or not climate change is ... Read more
Seasonal forecasts: communicating current climate variability in southern Africa

Author: Landman, WA ; Tadross, M ; Engelbrecht, F ; Archer, Emma RM ; Joubert, A Date: Nov 2011 In southern Africa, seasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts have been made for almost two decades already and these forecasts have been developed to improve the ability of users to cope with fluctuations in rainfall and temperatures on a ... Read more
Seasonal prediction and regional climate projections for southern Africa

Author: Archer, Emma RM ; Engelbrecht, Francois A ; Hänsler, A ; Landman, W ; Tadross, M ; Helmschrot, J Date: Apr 2018 Temperatures over southern Africa have been increasing rapidly over the last fi ve decades, at a rate of about twice the global rate of temperature increase. Further drastic increases, in the order of 6°C by the end of the century relative ... Read more
Setting the scene

Author: Diaw, MC ; Tito de Morais, L ; Harhash, KA ; Andriamaro, L ; Archer, Emma RM ; Batisani, N ; Bornman, T ; Fuashi, NA ; Golden, C ; Hamed, Y Date: 2018 Africa's extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services, and wealth of indigenous and local knowledge, comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development in the region (well-established). Africa is the last place on Earth ... Read more

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