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This book highlights the challenges with respect to climate change in the Global South. It demonstrates what has been happening in varying countries in this geographic location and how sustainable adaptation interventions could be used to alleviate these challenges. Most countries in the Global South are extremely vulnerable and unprepared for the present and future impact of climate change. Some climate change events that are presently plaguing these locations are extreme weather events such as flooding, food insecurity, disasters and droughts. The book provides case studies and interventions that can be a source to others who are seeking to find solutions to these adverse climate change events.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction (Debra D. Joseph, Camille Huggins and Maud Mthembu).- Part I: Disasters.- .- Chapter 2. The Impact of Global Boiling on Caribbean Islands: Practicality of Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (Timothy Affonso).- Chapter 3. The Psychosocial Impact of Climate Change: A recent Overview (Gervan J. Arneaud).- Chapter 4. The Climate-Resilient Elderly of Barbados (Melony Shoye).- Chapter 5. Climate Change-Induced Disasters in Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe: The Need for Continuous Professional Development (Molly Shayamano, Poppy Masinga and Nkosiyazi Dube).- Chapter 6. Centering the response to the KwaZulu-Natal floods in the African-centred Psychosocial Interventions (Sibonsile Zibane, Sthembiso Phoswa and Nokukhanya Zondi).- Part II: Food Security.- Chapter 7. Food Security Through Entomophagy: The Benefits and Challenges of Harvesting Encosternum delegorguei in Climate-Change-Affected Rural Nerumedzo community, Bikita, Zimbabwe (Brenda Nyeverwai Rumutsa).- Chapter 8. Climate Change and Its Effect on the Mental Health of Farmers in Trinidad & Tobago (Sadia Moore, Glenda Hinkson and Edward Clarke).- Part III: Migration.- Chapter 9. The Impacts of Climate Change Among Displaced Migrants in Small Island Developing States: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago (Camille Huggins).- Chapter 10. Mitigation and Adaptation Innovations Addressing Climate Change and Forced Migration: Case Study Research in Five World Regions (Carmen C. Monico, Shalee N. Forney, Helen B. Tadese and Ashley D. Gonzalez) .- Part IV: Vulnerable Populations, Organisations and Climate Modelling (AI).- Chapter 11. Why Climate Change Matters for Vulnerable Populations in South Africa: A Social Work Perspective (Tamsin Leigh Nel and Priscalia Khosa).- Chapter 12. The Power of Small-Scale Interventions in Progressing Climate Adaptation and Resilience in the Caribbean: A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago (Lauren Bain and Sara Low).- Chapter 13. Climate Models Using AI: A Case for the OECS (Letetia M. Addison, Kevan Rajaram, Ken Manohar and Curtis Charles).- Chapter 14. Conclusion (Camille Huggins, Debra D. Joseph and Maud Mthembu).
About the author
Debra D. Joseph is a lecturer in the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is the recipient of the Jeremy Collymore Award for Research in Humanitarian Response and Disaster Risk Management 2019. Dr. Joseph had also won a scholarship to attend the ‘Women Deliver’ Conference in Vancouver in 2019 because of her research that shed light on gender issues.
Maud Mthembu is a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work within the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Dr. Mthembu was nominated for the UKZN Best Teacher’s Award, while in 2021 she was honoured as a runner-up for the ASASWEI Best Researcher Award and was named Best Emerging Scholar in 2016.
Camille Huggins is a lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Science at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Huggins’s research includes traumatic experiences among minoritised women. Dr. Huggins has authored three books in 2021 and 2022 entitled Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean and Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean.
