ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on stewardship of Africa’s ecology – past, present and future. Its contextual setting is the ecological crisis climate scientists have researched since the 1970s, particularly with regard to the impacts of rapid climate change on human habitats and livelihoods. The impacts are experienced especially in those places where the natural environment has been destroyed through settlement and pollution. Comparatively, the continent of Africa as an ecological region is most adversely affected although its inhabitants are least responsible for the industrial pollution of which they are the most afflicted victims.