1. RISING TO THE CHALLENGE: WHAT SORT OF CAPACITY DOES GHANA NEED TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
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MUSAH-SURUGU, J. I. and AHENKAN, A.
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CLIMATE change research ,ENVIRONMENTAL engineering ,ECOLOGICAL succession ,EFFECT of environment on human beings ,SOCIAL status - Abstract
In both development policy and practice climate change adaptation and adaptive capacity have become the central theme in global climate change discourse. This is because climate change adaptation is not just a development issue but also survival hitch threatening most developing economies. This paper attempts to examine the capacity Ghana need to effectively adapt to climate change. The paper is extensively theoretical with minimal interview data collected from the Ghanaian business community, climate change graduate students, multi-disciplinary researchers and policy practitioners in the field of climate change. It was found that capacity needed to address climate change in Ghana is not different from those needed to address any social hazards, though it requires capacity beyond business as usual. The required capacities include timely information dissemination, training and research, technological penetration, leadership, financial resource, institutional resourcing and collaboration. Recommendations were made for improvement in each of these needed capacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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