Abstract
As climate change has such a broad range of effects and impacts, successful adaptation plans must consider all areas lest they unbalance effects across the range and incur hazardous effects. The UN 2030 agenda targets achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) through integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions of development policy.
Climate resilience entails the ability of a community or system to recover rather than a tool of measurement, it should be noted that we consider ecosystem capacity in dealing with any changes while trying to retain roles in development. To improve climate resilience, policies should be applied, which focus on climate impacts and adaptation strategies from a multi-scale point of view for entirely integrated ecosystem management with consideration of interactions between industry, agriculture, trade and health.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, Africa is one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change. Africa faces climate change challenges of unpredicted floods, extreme heat events, increasing aridity, reduction of rain forests and frequent droughts, which threaten community stability through agriculture productivity, water and energy security. This chapter details the application of 17 global circulation models (GCMs) with corresponding socioeconomic scenarios at a regional scale. Egypt is a water-stressed country and is facing significant vulnerabilities from climate change. Respecting the flow of the Nile Basin, some models predict reductions of flow, others predict increase of flow, which affects available water resources and hence agricultural and ecological services. Climate models result in contradicted outcomes, revealing complexity in potential policy management and a need for learning operational detail.
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Ibrahim, M.G., Samy, M. (2022). Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience in Egypt and Africa. In: Furze, J.N., Eslamian, S., Raafat, S.M., Swing, K. (eds) Earth Systems Protection and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98584-4_2
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