ABSTRACT
Climate-change impacts and response can be analyzed at varying spatial units, ranging from the local/particular through sub-national and national to con- tinental and global scales. Whereas micro can refer to a small unit ofanalysis such as a village or an urban center, we use it ina slightly broader sense to de fine national/sub-national units to distinguish this type ofanalysis from that which concentrates or focuses on regional and global trends and impacts. This distinction is important because the types ofmeasures, amount offinancial requirements and political support required for climate-change intervention vary with the spatial unit ofanalysis. Few articles appear in the literature on the impacts ofclimate change at the micro-spatial unit level and on what govern- ments and local communities are doing to address the problem in Africa.
