Download or read book Living with the Lake written by Matthias Krings and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Chad written by J.P. Carmouze and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congo Basin Hydrology Climate and Biogeochemistry written by Raphael M. Tshimanga and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New scientific discoveries in the Congo Basin as a result of international collaborations The Congo is the world's second largest river basin and home to 120 million people. Understanding the cycling of water, sediments, and nutrients is important as the region faces climatic and anthropogenic change. Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry: A Foundation for the Future explores variations in and influences on rainfall, hydrology and hydraulics, and sediment and carbon dynamics. It features contributions from experts in the region and their international collaborators. Volume highlights include: New in-situ and remotely sensed measurements and model results Use of historic data to assess precipitation and hydrologic changes Exploration of water exchange between wetlands and rivers Biogeochemical processes in the Congo's forests and wetlands A scientific foundation for hydrologic resource management in the region Studies from different parts of the Congo river and its adjoining basins This book is available in English and French. The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals. Find out more about this book in this short video and this article.
Download or read book The Future is an Ancient Lake written by Caterina Batello and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This art book contains over 350 color photographs by Marzio Marzot, documenting information on traditional food production systems, scientific details and notes from a journey through one of the world' s outstanding region: the Lake Chad Basin in Africa. It provides an insight into the life and customs of the local farmers, fishermen and pastoralists who foster, maintain and utilize biodiversity in their traditional agricultural systems, thereby deploying the knowledge and techniques that they have accumulated over many centuries. FAO promotes the sharing of experiences and awareness related to the role of rural people in conserving and sustainably using agricultural biodiversity. Building on the local knowledge and social organization of farmers is indispensable. The images in this book are a tribute to the knowledge and work of farmers and their care for the land.
Download or read book Living through Crisis by Lake Chad written by Alessio Iocchi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area. In 2014 Boko Haram expanded into the Lake Chad region, prompting a counter-insurgency response, and exacerbating pre-existing social and ecological challenges. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates how people within the liminal space of this key border region respond to and navigate the unpredictability which typifies their day-to-day lives. Building up a picture of individual and community experiences of crisis, the book gradually demonstrates the complex interactions between economic circuits, political orders, socio-religious processes, and labour practices which operate in the region. This book will be of interest to researchers across African studies, security studies, political science, and border studies.
Download or read book Applied Groundwater Studies in Africa written by Segun Adelana and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater is Africa‘s most precious natural resource, providing reliable water supplies for many people. Further development of groundwater resources is fundamental to increasing access to safe water across the continent to meet coverage targets and reduce poverty. There is also an increasing interest in the use of groundwater for irrigated
Download or read book Lake Chad Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report represents the GIWA Assessment of the Lake Chad Basin, which is located in one of the poorest and most drought prone regions in the world. Climatic variability and poor water governance has threatened the ecological and socio-economic integrity of the region. The past and present status and future prospects are discussed, and the transboundary issues traced back to their root causes. Policy options have been recommended that aim to address these driving issues and reverse the environmental degradation trends witnessed in the region over the past 30 years.
Download or read book Lake Chad Basin Commission at 25 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dying and Dead Seas Climatic Versus Anthropic Causes written by Jacques C.J. Nihoul and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-02-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are incentive indications that the growth of human population, the increasing use and abuse of natural resources combined with climate changes (probably due to anthropic pollution, to some extent) exert a considerable stress on closed (or semi-enclosed) seas and lakes. In many regions of the world, marine and lacustrine hydrosystems are (or have been) the object of severe or fatal alterations, from changes in regional hydrological regimes and/or modifications of the quantity or the quality of water resources associated with (natural or man-made) land reclamation, deterioration of geochemical balances (increased salinity, oxygen's depletion .. . ), mutations of ecosystems (eutrophication, dramatic decrease in biological diversity ... ) to geological disturbances and to the socio-economic perturbations which have been - or may be in the near future - the consequences of them. Seas and lakes are dying all over the world and some may be regarded as already dead and there is an urgent need to try to understand how this is happening and identify the causes of the observed mutations, weighing the relative effects of climatic evolution and anthropic interferences. This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Liege in May 2003. The Workshop was organized at th the University of Liege as a follow on meeting to the 35 International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics, dedicated in 2003 to Dying and Dead Seas. The book contains the synthesis of the lectures given by 16 main speakers during the ARW.
Download or read book Lake Chad written by Rititingar Appolinaire and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basin of the Lake Chad is the vastest endoreic basin of the world with 2.381.635 km2, that is to say 8% of the surface of the African continent. The countries concerned are: l' Algeria, Cameroun, Niger, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Chad. However the zone d' intervention of the Commission of the Basin of the Lake Chad indicated here 'conventional Basin' covers after its extension in 1985 (5th Summit of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), a surface of 967.000 km2. It represents the active catchment area. The Basin of the Lake Chad is subdivided in several more or less distinct natural units: the northern area, alluvial basins and solid masses. The basin hydrologic active relates to only the southern part. The hydrographic network is primarily made up of the Logon-Chari river, Mandara mounts and Komadougou Yobe. The Lake Chad is a zone presenting of specificities which are clean for him: a rich potentiality economic, cultural, demographic, fauna, flora, etc. It is to ensure an equitable management of these resources that was born the Lake Chad Basin Commission in 1964 in Fort-Lamis (current N'Djamena), to ensure the follow-up of the laid down objectives and to confirm thus the lake like frontier element between bordering countries cities mentioned above. However, the resources of the Lake Chad are with more a title, source of tensions, even conflicts between communities and interstates. Thus, at the time when that and there, the calls continue being launched in favor of the rescue of this ecological jewel, because of its disappearance certain due to climate warming and others, it is advisable to make the assessment of management of these resources and even in what this project will be benefit to the bordering countries of this area or will be a potential sources of conflicts. This study will present the Lake Chad and the resources which compose it. It will harness with various conventions which government the management of these resources. It will interest in the various conflicts which occurred during management of these potentialities. Lastly, it will question on the project which consists in saving the lake with water of the river Ubangi (Central African Republic), RCA.
Download or read book Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a global effort to identify those areas where conservation measures are needed most urgently, World Wildlife Fund has assembled teams of scientists to conduct ecological assessments of all five continents. Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar is the latest contribution, presenting in a single volume the first comprehensive assessment of biodiversity patterns, threats to biodiversity, and resulting conservation priorities across the African continent and its islands. Looking at biodiversity and threats in terms of biological units rather than political units, the book offers a comprehensive examination of African biodiversity across all biomes and multiple taxonomic groups. In addition to the seven main chapters, the book includes twenty essays by regional experts that provide more depth on key issues, as well as nine detailed appendixes that present summary data used in the analyses, specific analytical methodologies, and a thorough text description for each of Africa's 119 terrestrial ecoregions. Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar provides a blueprint for conservation action and represents an unparalleled guide for investments and activities of conservation agencies and donor organizations.
Download or read book Briefing Paper Development of Lake Chad Basin Area written by United Nations Development Programme and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fra Mauro s World Map written by Piero Falchetta and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains: digital reproduction of Fra Mauro's world map with the ability to navigate within the map and extract information from it.
Download or read book Engineering of Road Links in the Lake Chad Area written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa s Lakes written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared as part of UNEP's contribution to the 11th World Lakes Conference (held in Nairobi, Kenya in November 2005), this publication examines the environmental changes taking place to Africa's lakes by analysing ground photographs, current and historical satellite images and scientific evidence. Changes highlighted include the rapid shrinking of Lake Songor in Ghana, partly as a result of intensive salt production, and the extraordinary changes in the Zambezi river system as a result of the building of the Cabora Basa dam site. Other impacts, some natural and some human-made and which can only be truly appreciated from space, include the extensive deforestation around Lake Nakuru in Kenya, and the falling water levels of Lake Victoria which is now about a metre lower than it was in the early 1990s. The analysis recognises the importance of Africa's lakes as a source of livelihoods for many local communities, their contribution to the socio-economic development of the continent and the need for the sustainable management of these resources in order to help overcome poverty and meet internationally agreed development goals by 2015.
Download or read book Source Book for the Inland Fishery Resources of Africa written by J.-P. vanden Bossche and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping the Lake Chad Basin Area written by Opeyemi Rabiat Akande and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
