Communities’ climate change adaptive capacity and cost implications in Kilosa district
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2014
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
Currently, the concern, among social scientist is to know communities’ capacity to
adapt with changing climate and variability. Studies conducted on climate change
adaptive capacity and cost estimates associated with adaptation measures are at
global level, and were conducted outside Tanzania, in the countries with different
environment, economic level, governances, therefore, fail short in reflecting local
reality. This study assessed communities’ climatic change adaptive capacity and cost
implications in Kilosa district. It was conducted in Ilonga Kwambe, Kisongwe, and
Mkundi villages. Household survey and interviewing methods were used in data
collection where primary and secondary data were collected. Data were analysed by
means of descriptive statistics, mult responses and chi-square analysis. The software
used in data analysis was SPSS version 16 and Microsoft excel. The result indicate
that most of the attributes used to analyse community adaptive capacity show low,
moderate and exceptional was in land size index which shows high adaptive capacity
index than the rest. The variations of adaptive capacity between the villages are
significant at 1% and 0.5% probability level. The result on adaptation strategies show
that there were about 22 adaptation strategies that communities used in the course of
adaptation with climate change and variability which vary significantly between the
villages at 1% probability level. Adaptation cost was observed to have no greater
variation with total cost, in the study area because of low adaptive capacity indexes
in various adaptation strategies. The major challenge was in quantification of
adaption cost because most of the copping strategies are autonomous.
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Climate change