Building resilience to face recurring environmental crisis in African Sahel

Emily Boyd (), Rosalind J. Cornforth, Peter J. Lamb, Aondover Tarhule, M. Issa Lélé and Alan Brouder
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Emily Boyd: Human Environments Research Group, and the Centre for Food Security, University of Reading, Whiteknights
Rosalind J. Cornforth: Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading
Peter J. Lamb: Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, The University of Oklahoma
Aondover Tarhule: The University of Oklahoma
M. Issa Lélé: Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, The University of Oklahoma
Alan Brouder: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Nature Climate Change, 2013, vol. 3, issue 7, 631-637

Abstract: Access to timely climate information is critical for empowering proactive decision-making to absorb climate shocks that would otherwise lead to large-scale humanitarian crises. The value of Rainwatch — a prototype geographical information system designed to increase interactions between local climate information users, their providers and supporting groups — is illustrated in the case of the unfavourable West African 2011 monsoon.

Date: 2013
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