Reprint
Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics
Edited by
July 2021
470 pages
- ISBN978-3-0365-1370-6 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-0365-1369-0 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics that was published in
Business & Economics
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and reduce livestock, which generate most of the greenhouse gas emissions. However, efforts to achieve a sustainable rural development are often thwarted by floods, drought, heat waves, and hurricanes, which local communities are not very prepared to tackle. Agricultural practices and local planning are still not very risk-informed. These deficiencies are particularly acute in tropical regions, where many Least Developed Countries are located and where there is, however, great potential for rural development. This Special Issue contains 22 studies on best practices for risk awareness; on local risk reduction; on several cases of soil depletion, water pollution, and sustainable access to safe water; and on agronomy, earth sciences, ecology, economy, environmental engineering, geomatics, materials science, and spatial and regional planning in 12 tropical countries.
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
climate change; contingency plan; flood risk; local development plan; risk management; sustainable rural development; agricultural drought; climate change; heavy rains; hydrological drought; meteorological drought; risk assessment; Sahel; sustainable rural development; early warning; flood risk; hydrology; local communities; Niger river basin; rural development; Sahel; disaster risk reduction; official development assistance; public participation; risk tracking; rural development; Sendai framework; sustainable development; dataset validation; precipitation; Kenya; local climate; ASALs; Quantile Mapping; climate services; local drought risk reduction; smallholder farmers; agrometeorological forecast; Niger; natural resources; Mauritania; resource management; regional planning; participatory approach; EO data; water resources; sustainable management; local development; water for food security; building consolidation; extreme precipitations; flood exposure; flood risk; satellite remote sensing; settlement dynamics; sustainable rural development; vulnerability; agriculture; Nitrate runoff; real-time monitoring; water quality; vulnerability; rural area; scant data; nitrate contamination; water; flood; Sinai Peninsula; flash flood; climate change; CORDEX; water harvesting; climate services; indigenous farmers; multinational corporations; systems thinking; Nigeria; sub-Saharan Africa; climate change; drought; rainfall regime; soil biogeochemistry; natural disasters; flooding; flood vulnerability; inequality; risk premium; expected annual damages; certainty equivalent annual damages; equity weight expected annual damages; equity weight certainty equivalent annual damage; soil erosion; Great Rift Valley Lakes; ASAL; Kenya; desertification; groundwater resources; fluoride; main Ethiopian Rift Valley; developing countries; welfare; panel probit model; adoption; propensity score matching; water crisis in Africa; water collection and retention systems; sand dam; migration; climate change; risk communication; volcanic hazards; social risk perception; resilience; demonstrator; scenario; multi-risk analysis; climate-smart agriculture; socio-ecological systems; extension; Belize; milpa; food security; sustainability; photovoltaic energy; desalination system; SIDS; CO2 emissions; LCOW; LEOW; n/a