Front Cover |
1 |
Table of Contents |
3 |
Foreword |
5 |
Executive summary |
6 |
Key Messages |
8 |
Introductory overview |
11 |
East Africa |
13 |
Approach and methodology |
16 |
East Africa’s Mountain Ecosystems in a Changing Climate |
17 |
Overview of East Africa’s mountain areas |
18 |
Climate change trends and scenarios and their effect on mountain ecosystems |
20 |
East Africa’s Mountains and Climate Change: The case of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania |
24 |
African Mountains and Climate Change: The case of Mount Elgon |
28 |
Mau Forest Complex: Renewed Efforts to Save Kenya’s Water Tower |
36 |
Rwanda: Climate Resilience |
42 |
Transboundary collaboration in the Greater Virunga |
46 |
Burundi’s Mountains |
48 |
East Africa’s mountain policies |
49 |
Governance of East Africa’s mountainous areas |
51 |
Best practice case studies |
68 |
Key messages |
74 |
East Africa Mountain Agenda: Options |
75 |
Background |
76 |
Governance of mountain ecosystem conservation and development |
77 |
Identified gaps and overlaps |
78 |
The Case for an East African mountain agenda |
80 |
The agenda for Eastern African mountains |
81 |
Conclusion |
92 |
Contributors and reviewers |
93 |
Acronyms |
94 |
References |
95 |
Back Cover |
100 |