Global Climate Governance and Somali Pastoralists

Climate change is transforming pastoral life across the Horn of Africa—but the decisive question is not only how the climate is changing. It is whether institutions, finance, early-warning systems, public services and policies enable pastoral communities to act before climate hazards become livelihood disasters.Global Climate Governance and Somali Pastoralists examines this challenge through the experience of Ethiopia's Somali Region and the wider Horn of Africa. Connecting global climate governance with realities at household and community level, Dr. Siraj Aden Hassen explores drought and flooding, pastoral livelihoods, climate adaptation, livestock economies, mobility, early warning and early action, climate finance, humanitarian response, inequality, loss and damage, and climate justice.The book presents practical analytical frameworks—including the Pastoral Climate Governance Gap, Pastoral Climate Justice Chain, Pastoral Forecast-to-Action Gap, Pastoral Multi-Hazard Cycle, and Pastoral Adaptation Capability Framework—to explain why climate commitments do not always translate into meaningful protection for vulnerable communities.Rather than portraying pastoralists simply as victims of climate change, the book recognizes mobility, ecological knowledge, herd management and social networks as important adaptive resources while examining the institutional conditions needed for those capabilities to succeed.Combining climate science, governance, development and pastoral perspectives, this book offers a policy-focused contribution for researchers, students, policymakers, humanitarian and development practitioners, civil-society organizations, climate professionals and readers interested in climate justice and resilience in Africa.