"This book is a product of the South-South Tricontinental Collaborative Programme of CLASCO, CODESRIA and IDEAs = Ce livre est une compilation d'articles issus du programme tricontinental Sud-Sud entre CLASCO, CODESRIA et IDEAs"--Page before title page.

Statement of responsibility should read "edited."

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos -- 1. The socioeconomic implications of renewable energy and low carbon trajectories in South Africa /Tara Caetano & James Thurlow -- 2. Les migrants climatiques en Quête d'adaptation : les eleveurs Mbororo immigrent en Rd Congo / Felicien Kabamba Mbambu -- 3. Changements climatiques, genre, et inegalites sociales : les praticiennes de la medecine et de la pharmacopee traditionnelle en milieu urbain au Burkina Faso / Claudine V. Rouamba Ouedraogo & Natewinde Sawadogo -- 4. Saint-Louis du Senegal, les "aventuriers" de la terre / Adrien Coly & Fatimatou Sall -- 5. A new cartography of international cooperation : emerging powers in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of biofuels promotion by Brazil in Senegal / M.A. Gaston Fulquet -- 6. Climate change and the urban political ecology of water / Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos -- 7. Indigenous people and climate change : causes of flooding in the Bolivian Amazon and consequences for the indigenous population / Gabriela Canedo Vásquez -- 8. Gender-wise rural-to-urban migration in Orissa, India : an adaptation strategy to climate change / Nirmala Velan & Ranjan Kumar Mohanty -- 9. Effects of climate change and heat waves on low income urban workers : evidence from India / Saudamini Das.

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. Anthropogenic activities, such as fossil fuel consumption and other activities focused on enhancing economic growth, have been identified as the main drivers of changes in the environment that defy planetary boundaries. The transgression of planetary boundaries has profound implications for practically all biophysical and human systems and their impact could also be related to the exacerbation of existing problems such as land tenure insecurity, poverty and inequality, marginalization of poorer populations, climate induced migration, and resource wars or conflicts. From a global South perspective, research on the multifaceted nature of climate change is thus necessary and appropriate, including the analysis of socioeconomic, political and cultural aspects. This book is an outcome of the Comparative Research Workshop on "Inequality and Climate Change: Perspectives from the South" of the South-South Collaborative Programme of CLACSO-CODESRIA-IDEAS. It gathers a diversity of case studies from the South with ample biophysical differences and particular social and cultural realities. As such, it is a fresh contribution offering a vantage point from which to examine some of the current perspectives on inequality and climate change.

6 chapters in English and 3 in French.

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