sexta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2012
Africa Adaptation Knowledge Network (AAKNet)
Information Portal will Make Available Research, Experiences
and Lessons
Learned from Projects Across the Continent.
(UNEP - 6.12.2012)
About AAKNet
THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA
«All global reports put Sub Saharan Africa at the frontline of climate change impacts for a region that lacks the capacity and resources to face the challenges. Not only is climate change complicating national development planning, but also overturning previous development efforts and constricting human survival opportunities as the impacts are already being felt. New climate related risks are adding to the existing challenges of tackling poverty and promoting human development which cannot be resolved without tackling the other. Decisive action on climate change and building capacity for adaptation are therefore key priorities for sustainable development in Africa.
Adaptation, being a knowledge intensive undertaking, needs information and knowledge that span the interlinked stages of adaptation actions from climate change impact assessment and vulnerability analysis, through policy making and planning, to piloting, demonstrating, and full scale implementation. The challenge here is that, while much knowledge needed for successful implementation of the various stages of adaptation already exists, it’s often very scattered, difficult to access, and not in a user-friendly format. In particular, due to the fragmentation of knowledge under different disciplines, knowledge in a packaged and ready-to-use form, integrating the different stages of adaptation, is rarely available.
It is these challenges that the Africa Adaptation Knowledge Network seeks to address, through harnessing and channeling knowledge in a structured and useable way to ensure it serve strategic planning processes in addressing short-medium and long term adaptation needs at regional, national and sub national level.
WHAT IS AFRICA ADAPTATION KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (AAKNet)?
Harnessing knowledge for strategic planning processes is an important milestone for reducing climate risks faced by communities. AAKNet is a platform aimed at building a shared knowledge base intended to help build an innovative community of practice which enhances adaptive actions through sharing lessons, knowledge and information in adaptation. The platform functions as a knowledge hub on adaptation, promoting cooperation and collaboration in seeking robust solutions to climate change impacts using experiences and lessons learnt from the implementation of independent actions in different locations. Practitioners, policy makers, researchers and community members will be brought together through this so as to compare, contrast and collate the lessons learnt from their actions addressing climate risks. The Network will allow the various actors to collaborate and complement each other in concretizing and up-scaling solutions to a common problem.»
La modernidade ignorada. Arquitectura Moderna de Luanda
Roberto Goycoolea Prado; Paz Nunez Martí (2012). La modernidade ignorada. Arquitectura Moderna de Luanda. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá, 251 pp.
Página Web Projecto: La modernidade ignorada. Arquitectura Moderna de Luanda
Nos Trópicos Sem Le Corbusier
Ana Vaz Milheiro (2012). Nos Trópicos Sem Le Corbusier. Arquitectura luso-africana no Estado Novo. Relógio de Água (Prefácio: Walter Rossa)
«The Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works
in African studies published under the auspices of the International African
Institute annually since 1984. This online consolidated version brings
together every record collected since the bibliography’s foundation, producing a
rich and interactive resource for all scholars interested in the study of
Africa.»
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