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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.003
	The relative importance of climate change in the context of multiple stressors in semi-arid Ghana
	Nyantakyi-Frimpong H.; Bezner-Kerr R.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	32
英文摘要	This paper investigates the relative importance of climate change in the context of multiple stressors in semi-arid Ghana. It draws upon ethnographic research in two agrarian villages, and integrates theories from resilience, vulnerability and feminist political ecology. The findings empirically demonstrate that many farmers do not worry about climate change, even in situations where local perceptions and the climate data show a clear pattern of variability. Additionally, the paper provides evidence of a 'gendered double exposure,' whereby patriarchy and local culture shape how different social groups are impacted by climate change. Overall, the emerging findings suggest that an overemphasis on scenario-based climate change impacts may detract attention from equally important non-climatic factors that loom large in people's lives. The article's central argument is not meant to downplay the ongoing impacts of climate change in Africa. It rather suggests that climate change should be addressed as one problem among many socio-ecological challenges facing smallholder farmers. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Climate change; Gender; Local knowledge; Multiple stressors; Resilience; Vulnerability
学科领域	agrarian change; climate change; data set; ecosystem resilience; gender; perception; semiarid region; smallholder; vulnerability; Ghana
语种	英语
scopus关键词	agrarian change; climate change; data set; ecosystem resilience; gender; perception; semiarid region; smallholder; vulnerability; Ghana
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117512
作者单位	Department of Geography, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada; Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, 122 Academic Surge A, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nyantakyi-Frimpong H.,Bezner-Kerr R.. The relative importance of climate change in the context of multiple stressors in semi-arid Ghana[J],2015,32.
APA	Nyantakyi-Frimpong H.,&Bezner-Kerr R..(2015).The relative importance of climate change in the context of multiple stressors in semi-arid Ghana.Global Environmental Change,32.
MLA	Nyantakyi-Frimpong H.,et al."The relative importance of climate change in the context of multiple stressors in semi-arid Ghana".Global Environmental Change 32(2015).