Journal
CLIMATE SERVICES
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100107
Keywords
Knowledge creation; Knowledge brokering; Climate services; Climate information and knowledge; Africa
Funding
- NERC [NE/M020347/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change because of its heightened sensitivity to climate variability and inadequate institutional adaptive capacity. Notwithstanding these challenges, Africa, and its inhabitants, have been confronting the vagaries of climate for centuries, including severe droughts and floods. Given this context, this paper provides a commentary on the efforts to ensure and enable climate services on the continent as well as a critical, reflexive assessment of activities in this varied landscape. A special focus on the institutional frameworks and the underlying knowledge systems that support and interface with climate services will be examined. A central question underpinning the paper is: to what extent is the expanding landscape of climate services being endogenously driven in Africa? Finally, some recommendations for future efforts to enhance effective institutions and knowledge brokering and facilitate better climate services in Africa are suggested.
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