Climate Change: Intervention Strategies and Sustainable Development in the Global South

This book highlights the challenges with respect to climate change in the Global South. It demonstrates what has been happening in varying countries in this geographic location and how sustainable adaptation interventions could be used to alleviate these challenges. Most countries in the Global South are extremely vulnerable and unprepared for the present and future impact of climate change. Some climate change events that are presently plaguing these locations are extreme weather events such as flooding, food insecurity, disasters and droughts. The book provides case studies and interventions that can be a source to others who are seeking to find solutions to these adverse climate change events.

Debra D. Joseph is a lecturer in the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is the recipient of the Jeremy Collymore Award for Research in Humanitarian Response and Disaster Risk Management 2019. Dr. Joseph had also won a scholarship to attend the ‘Women Deliver’ Conference in Vancouver in 2019 because of her research that shed light on gender issues.

Maud Mthembu is a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work within the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Dr. Mthembu was nominated for the UKZN Best Teacher’s Award, while in 2021 she was honoured as a runner-up for the ASASWEI Best Researcher Award and was named Best Emerging Scholar in 2016.

Camille Huggins is a lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Science at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Huggins’s research includes traumatic experiences among minoritised women. Dr. Huggins has authored three books in 2021 and 2022 entitled Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean and Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean.