The collection of papers presented in this book provides a detailed analysis of the impacts of climate change on various tropical ecosystems in Tanzania and their related aspects of economic endeavour - from agriculture, marine resources, wildlife to weather forecasting.

Pius Z. Yanda is a Research Professor at the Centre for Climate Change Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam. He has served as a Regional Director for Pan African START Secretariat and National REDD+ Secretariat; and conducted a number of climate change related studies. Key focus areas have been on climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation. He teaches courses on biodiversity conservation, science of climate change, vulnerability to impacts of climate change, responses to climate change, physical geography, remote sensing and GIS, Integrated Research Methodologies.

Dr. Edmund B. Mabhuye is a lecturer in the institute of Resource Assessment at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Claude G. Mung’ong’o is a retired Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam. Born in late 1946, he holds a PhD degree in Geography and Environmental Science from Stockholm University, Sweden, and has more than 30 years of research experience in Environmental Sociology (including climate change), Pastoral Livelihood Analysis and Food Security, and general rural development. He has been involved in numerous socio-economic studies as a member of various natural resource use studies. He has taught several post-graduate courses at the University of Dar es Salaam, including the Political ecology of natural resource management, Social survey methods, Impacts of climate change on human society and ecosystems, and Pastoralism and climate change governance.

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