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" " Climate change is not just an environmental issue , as too many people still believe . Human vulnerability to environmental change is complex ; it may , in fact , be as complex as ecological processes , where some cause and effect linkages are still not fully understood despite centuries of scientific research . Alien invasive organisms are a widespread problem throughout the region , particularly in closed ecosystems including Lake Victoria and the Western Indian Ocean Islands.Formal protection of Africa 's biodiversity at both national and international levels has been strengthened over the past 30 years , but the paradigm of conservation is now shifting away from protection and preservation and focussing more on sustainable use and sharing of benefits . Climate change is likely to bring increased frequency and severity of flooding and drought to those areas already experiencing variability in rainfall . Significantly , this volume was published by Moxon , also Tennyson 's publisher . Environmental change is making people in Africa more vulnerable , with the increase in exposure to risk and inadequate coping capabilities . Although comprehensive international data on urban concentrations of sulphur dioxide ( SO2 ) , nitrogen oxides ( NOx ) , particulate matter ( PM ) , ground-level ozone and toxic chemicals are not available , recent information for selected cities from the OECD indicates that levels of SO2 have decreased substantially since the early 1990s , and are remaining below guideline values set by WHO . Efforts for better environmental management continued , but changes are taking place at a faster pace and with deeper effects . This is not to say that the growing risk of global climate change is due to the stoves of the poor . " The volume was meant to " prove that the Poetical Faculty is not confined to one of the sexes , " and the Preface devotes several pages to lamenting the lack of attention for women poets : " In these enlightened days it may certainly be taken for granted that women have souls : and further , that their souls have no small influence upon the world of thought and action .