1st Edition
Climate Action in Southern Africa Implications for Climate Justice and Just Transition
Table of Contents
Part I: Overview
1. The Climate Crisis and Climate Injustice in Southern Africa
Philani Moyo
2. Climate Action Policies, Strategies and Programming in Southern Africa: Missed Opportunities for Climate Justice
Philani Moyo, Thabo Ndlovu, Thokozani P Moyo, Treda Mukuhlani, Elinah Nciizah, Tendai Nciizah, Adornis D Nciizah, Thapelo Ramalefane, Stanley Ehiane, France Maphosa, Grascious Maviza and Sipho F Mamba.
PART II Political Economy of Adaptation, Resilience, Injustice and Just Transition
3. Drought Adaptation Practices and Rangeland Management in Rural Umzingwane, Zimbabwe: Implications for Climate Justice.
Thabo Ndlovu and Philani Moyo
4. ‘Making Little Go Far in the Context of Climate Change’: Managing Water Demand in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Treda Mukuhlani
5. Climate Finance, Public-Private Partnerships and Climate Injustice in Lesotho
Thapelo Ramalefane and Philani Moyo
6. Just Transition and Sustainability: Implications for Poverty, Inequality and Jobs in Eswatini
Sipho Felix Mamba and Thabo Ndlovu
7. Climate Actions and Just Transition in Zimbabwe: A Review
Tendai Nciizah, Elinah Nciizah and Adornis D. Nciizah
8. Climate Governance, Inaction and Injustice in Buffalo City, South Africa
Philani Moyo
9. Precarious Adaptation to Climate Impacts: Farmer Agency, Choices and Constraints in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Philani Moyo
10. Just Adaptation and Climate Justice: Possibilities for Youth Development in Rural South Africa
Tanaka Mugabe
11. Climate Change and Justice in Botswana’s National Adaptation Strategy and Programming: The Journey so Far.
Stanley Ehiane and Christopher Dick-Sagoe
Part III Climate Mobility
12. The Climate Change-Migration Nexus: Climate Mobility and Climate Justice in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
France Maphosa
13. Climate Change and Gendered Migration Patterns in Southern Africa: A Review
Divane Nzima and Gracsious Maviza
Index
Biography
Philani Moyo is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fort Hare Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. His primary research interests are in climate justice, adaptation and resilience building, climate-resilient food systems, food justice, food sovereignty and agrarian studies. Some of his recent publications are ‘The Political Economy of Zimbabwe’s Food Crisis, 2019-2020’, Journal of Asian and African Studies (2022), DOI: 10.1177/00219096221120923 and ‘Contested Compensation: The Politics, Economics and Legal Nuances of Compensating White Former Commercial Farmers in Zimbabwe’, Review of African Political Economy (2021), DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1990033. His most recent book (co-edited with Akpan, W.) is Revisiting Environmental and Natural Resource Questions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
