Climate Change: Challenges & Adaptive Strategies
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH CULTURE SOCIETY
Aug 2017
"Climate change is hitting the poor first and hardest": We are so used to hearing these words; so used to the extent that these words have literally lost their implications to our own lives as human beings! However, there is vast empirical evidence and theoretical literature on the adverse effects of climate change around the globe. No part of this world is immune to climate change and variability. Climate change is constantly taking place in the whole world, and this change will result in impacts whose direction, magnitude, timing and trajectory is not fully predictable. This piece of work looks at climate change and variability in general; we are however, biased towards Africa and Zimbabwe, firstly because that is where there are most of