Conceptual premises for climate change adaptation education in African universities

Mbah, MF, Harman, B ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7475-2171 and Molthan-Hill, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4425-1800, 2025. Conceptual premises for climate change adaptation education in African universities. In: Mbah, MF, Molthan-Hill, P and Molua, EL, eds., Practices, perceptions and prospects for climate change education in Africa. Cham: Springer, pp. 69-89. ISBN 9783031840807

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Abstract

Africa is especially vulnerable to the deleterious effects of climate change. Unless there is a significant shift in current trends, many African countries are likely to continue facing extreme weather events that will threaten their food security, water resources, human health, and biodiversity. Consequently, there is a pressing need to ensure that climate change mitigation strategies (strategies to reduce carbon emissions) and climate change adaptation strategies (strategies to circumvent the deleterious effects of climate change) are rolled out across all courses at African universities. Universities serve as both knowledge hubs and vehicles for societal change. However, African universities have traditionally adopted a Eurocentric approach to education that delegitimises Indigenous knowledge and reinforces colonial narratives. To overcome these historical shortcomings, African universities must engage with local populations and leverage Indigenous knowledge systems to co-create place-based climate solutions that provide transformative change for all. In this chapter, we call for African universities to reposition their orientation by reconsidering their conceptualisation of climate change education.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Description:	Chapter 4
Creators:	Mbah, M.F., Harman, B. and Molthan-Hill, P.
Publisher:	Springer
Place of Publication:	Cham
Date:	2025
ISBN:	9783031840807
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/978-3-031-84081-4_4 DOI 2396209 Other
Rights:	This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	14 Apr 2025 08:53
Last Modified:	14 Apr 2025 08:53
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URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53396

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