Coastal environmental degradation as a result of erosion and flooding poses a significant threat to the West African coastal environment, its people and its assets; the threat will increase in coming years...
The West African coastal area hosts big infrastructure, major industries, tourism, agriculture and fishing activities as well as human settlements and its forerunners (e.g. communication routes) that drive...
Mar del Plata is a tourist, coastal city of Argentina with 700,000 inhabitants that receives more than 1,500,000 tourists per year during the summer months. The coastal ecosystem of the city consists of...
This paper deals with engaging civil society on balancing development while enhancing the environment. The economy, human activities and cultural heritages should all be in balance with the environment...
Local businesses have an important role to play in preventing and managing natural and human induced hazards to safeguard the West African coasts from climate change effects. Countries in West Africa are...
The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa has a large bounty that has provided employment for fishermen and women, food for families, astonishing sunsets that have attracted tourists and ports that...
The Atlantic Ocean (off the coast of West African) provides a multitude of economic benefits for the local coastal communities, however overexploitation of these benefits and the disregard for the environment...
The loss of habitats and ecosystem services has a significant economic, social and cultural impact in the West African coastal region. Climate change in West Africa is exacerbated by unsustainable human...
The West African coastal region is rich in natural land resources. However, increased pressure on these resources from the rapidly growing coastal population has degraded these reserves. The effects are...
With an increasing population growth in the West African region, coupled with human-induced and natural hazards exacerbated by climate change, the balance of economic, social and cultural elements that...
Environmental conditions of the coastal regions in West Africa continue to deteriorate steadily, in part due to rapid population growth and coastal migration and the unsustainable use of natural resources...
West Africa has enormous potential, greater than that of any other African region, fornatural gas and oil exports. Net natural gas exports from West Africa are envisagedto grow at a robust average annual...
As populations in West Africa grow and migrate to the urban areas of coastal regions, the coastal environments come under increasing threat. The ecological and environmental services offered by the coastal...
The World Bank awarded the contract to perform the Stakeholders and Political Economy Analysis for Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin, to Aninver InfraPPP Partners S.L. The study covers three main issues:...
Sand mining is just what it sounds like, and has been theessential ingredient for the building of cities since civilizationbegan. Workers dig quarries, or take sand fromriverbeds and beaches or dredge...
The coastal zone of Ghana is home to more than a quarter of the country’s population, and contributes as much as 80 percent of the country’s annual capture fish production. Coastal erosion and flooding...
The main sources of income in Demak, Indonesia, were traditionally based on rice cultivation and productive mangrove fisheries. In the 1960s, Demak’s economy was based mainly on dry land crops, coconut...
Denmark consists of the Jutland peninsula and more than 400 islands, which represents more than 7300 km of coastline. The Western coast of Jutland faces the North Sea and is made up of sandy beaches in...