dc.contributor.author | Kiarie, Caroline | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-26T11:42:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-26T11:42:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kiarie,Caroline;November,2013.Climate Change, Conflict And Sustainable Development: Issues And Perspectives In The Horn Of Africa, 1986 - 2013. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/60452 | |
dc.description.abstract | Despite being a global issue and the implications of adversely affecting human life, the
debate on climate change has not commanded the kind of global support and legal and
structural mechanisms necessary to reverse the changes that years of environmental
degradation have had on the climate and the society. Climate change has been allied to be a
consequence of increased global warming of which emission of green house gases have
played a huge part in. These emissions, scientists have claimed, have been as a result of
human activities including industrialization which has increased the carbon component in the
air. The model that developed countries applied in the course of their development which
focused on industrialization and mass production is the same that the developing countries
have been striving towards which essentially means that the world is on a fast, progressive
road towards its doom unless an alternative is applied.Alternative development paths affect
future climate change as does climate change on the prospects for alternative development
paths. The two roads arrive at one impasse; conflict which is the result of the two processes
working independent of each other. This study investigated and interrogated the measures
that have been put in place towards climate change adaptation in the Horn of Africa sub
region vis a vis, the steps towards sustainable development and evaluated them for their
feasibility in tandem with each other and within the Horn of Africa context. This was done by
exploring a largely qualitative research design with elements of quantitative research design.
The study was able to establish and highlight the need to integrate Climate Change into
Development and Security policies given the continent’s susceptibility to climate change
effects as well as the role that development plays in climate change and climate change on
security. More critical, it was able to highlight the role and need to have multi-sectoral
approaches and the inclusion of multi stakeholders in climate change adaptation and
mitigation given the implications of the same to the broader socio, political, economic and
security affairs of the sub-region. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.title | Climate Change, Conflict and Sustainable Development: Issues and Perspectives in the Horn of Africa, 1986 - 2013 | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies | en |