Pt. 1. Climate change and human security in Africa. The African Union's response to climate change and climate security / Jo-Ansie van Wyk -- Climate change, population surge and resource overuse in the Lake Chad area : implications for human security in the north-east zone on Nigeria / Freedom C. Onuoha -- Climate change, hydropolitics and security in Lesotho / Oscar Gakuo Mwangi -- Pt. 2. Climate change and access to natural resources. Climate change and access to water resources in the Lake Victoria Basin / Donald Anthony Mwiturubani -- The hydropolitics of the Nile : climate change and food security in Ethiopia / Debay Tadesse -- Pt. 3. Climate change and natural resource-use conflicts. Silence on climate change and natural resources conflict in Nigeria : the Niger Delta experience / Bonnie Ayodele -- Putting tested wisdom into practice : relevance and applicability of Nyakyusa traditional conflict resolution practices to contemporary environmental challenges in Tanzania / Ipyana Mwamugobole -- Anthropogenic-induced climate change and the resulting tendency to land conflict : the case of the Soutpansberg Regions, South Africa / Tibangayuka Kabanda and Christopher Munyati -- Pt. 4. Vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability. Carbon : an exploration of soil carbon sequestration potential in the Bukoba district, north-west Tanzania / Byjesh Kattarkandi, Mariana Rufino and Pablo Titonell -- Climate variability, pastoralists' vulnerability and options : the case of the Borana of Northern Kenya / Tari Doti -- Dynamics of cultivated and its association with rainfall variability in Botswana : implications for food security under climate change / Nnyaladzi Batisani -- Pt. 5. National environmental legislations, policies and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) : legal and policy challenges for Tanzania / Joy Faida and Eliamani Laltaika -- The link between climate change, law, sustainable development and livelihoods in Uganda / Godard Busingye.