This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools,...

It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it. Due to the...

Energy poverty, understood as the lack of access to adequate and enough energy services, constitutes a severe development problem for the African continent. Even though several policies and alleviation measures have been implemented in the last decades, African countries are still far from the...