BIP! Finder - The Roles of Customary Institutions in Adaptation and Coping to Climate Change and Variability among the Issa, Ittu and Afar Pastoralists of eastern Ethiopia

2015 • The Roles of Customary Institutions in Adaptation and Coping to Climate Change and Variability among the Issa, Ittu and Afar Pastoralists of eastern Ethiopia

Authors: Workneh Kassa; Bamlaku Tadesse; Fekadu Beyene; Richard Wentzell

Venue: Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems

Type: Publication

Abstract: Abstract(Agro) pastoral communities who reside in the arid and semi-arid environments of Ethiopia are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and variability specifically to the recurrent drought, floods and conflicts. From their long years of rich experiences of how to survive on such environmental pressures, (agro) pastoralists have also developed various forms of adaptation as well as coping strategies to the impacts of climate change and variability. Such strategies are closely guided and supervised by their customary institutions which... (read more)

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Topics: Environmental resource management Environmental planning Natural resource economics

DOI: 10.1515/cass-2015-0025

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