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Climate Change and Marine Fisheries in Africa: Assessing Vulnerability and Strengthening Adaptation Capacity

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-11T19:50:45Z
dc.date.available2020-02-11T19:50:45Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.description.abstractThe understanding of the impacts of climate change on fisheries is constantly increasing and can be organized around several main factors - ocean acidification, sea-level rise, higher water temperatures, deoxygenation, changes in ocean currents - although these factors are unequally known and hard to model in terms of scope - where they will occur and where they will be felt the most - and severity. For instance, although the impacts of acidification are not as well understood as the effects of the other impacts, and are more difficult to measure, it is likely that they are more severe and widespread, particularly on shell-forming species, invertebrates, and coral associated species and throughout any carbon-dependent ecological processes. This report aims to assess, to the extent possible, the potential impact of climate change on fisheries and the related well-being of coastal African countries. It focuses on how the observed and anticipated ecological impacts of climate change are likely to affect fish stocks and the fisheries that depend on them and highlights the coastal countries and regions in Africa that are most vulnerable to climate change. Based on these projections, the report further assesses subsequent socioeconomic impacts on coastal countries and communities. The report concludes with a discussion of lessons learned from the modeling results.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/280891580715878729/Climate-Change-and-Marine-Fisheries-in-Africa-Assessing-Vulnerability-and-Strengthening-Adaptation-Capacity
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/33315
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33315
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectFISHERIES
dc.subjectMARINE FISHERY
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
dc.subjectMARINE SPECIES
dc.subjectECOLOGICAL RISK
dc.titleClimate Change and Marine Fisheries in Africaen
dc.title.subtitleAssessing Vulnerability and Strengthening Adaptation Capacityen
dc.typeReporten
dc.typeRapportfr
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dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crossref.titleClimate Change and Marine Fisheries in Africa
okr.date.disclosure2020-02-03
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Environmental Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/280891580715878729/Climate-Change-and-Marine-Fisheries-in-Africa-Assessing-Vulnerability-and-Strengthening-Adaptation-Capacity
okr.guid280891580715878729
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/33315
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b08757bd12_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31746601
okr.identifier.report145609
okr.importedtrueen
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/280891580715878729/pdf/Climate-Change-and-Marine-Fisheries-in-Africa-Assessing-Vulnerability-and-Strengthening-Adaptation-Capacity.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.geographicalSub-Saharan Africa
okr.topicEnvironment::Adaptation to Climate Change
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change Impacts
okr.topicEnvironment::Coastal and Marine Environment
okr.topicEnvironment::Environmental Protection
okr.topicWater Resources::Coastal and Marine Resources
okr.topicWater Resources::Oceans
okr.unitAFR ENR PM 1 (SAFE1)
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