Advancing climate change research in West Africa: trends, impacts, vulnerability, resilience, adaptation and sustainability issues

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Indigenous Knowledge and Resilience to River Floods in West Africa# -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Review of Relevant Literature -- Empirical Evidence on IK and Resilience -- Anticipating Hazards and Preparedness -- Coping/Buffer/Reorganization -- Learning and Adaptation -- Other Related Literature on Resilience and Indigenous Knowledge -- Conceptual Framework and Indicators for the Study -- Resilience Conceptual Framework with IK, Absorptive Coping Capacity and Adaptive Capacity Subcomponents -- Indicators Selection -- Background to the Study -- The River Oti Basin -- Study Areas -- Socio Demographic Information, Livelihood Activities and Flood Description -- Materials and Methods -- Population, Sample and Sampling Method Used -- Analysing Data -- Results -- Capacity to Anticipate/Predict Using IK -- Current Ability to Predict Floods Using the Biophysical Indicators -- Total Absorptive Capacity -- Adaptive Capacity -- Effectiveness and Limits of IK -- Resilience Scores -- Absorptive Capacity Scores for the Districts -- Adaptive Capacity Scores for the Districts -- Discussions -- Absorptive Coping Capacity of the Two Districts -- Adaptive Capacity -- Effectiveness and Limits of IK -- Conclusion -- Research Limitations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Normalization and Weighting of Indicators -- Appendix B: Grading Resilience Score -- Appendix C: Robustness of the Resilience Index -- Appendix D: Standard Deviation of the Absorptive Capacities -- Appendix E: Standardized Deviation from Mean for Adaptive Capacity -- Chapter 2 -- Econometric Analysis of Farmers' Climate Perception and Adaptation in Nigeria -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Study Area -- Data and Methods of Collection -- Data Analysis -- Ordered Probit.