Responding to climate variability: the opening of an artificial mouth on the Senegal River

Kane, Coura; Humbert, Joël; Kane, Alioune

doi:10.1007/s10113-012-0321-6

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“…Figure 1 shows the environmental impact and the location of the affected populations. Changes in the natural system, like mangrove area reduction, disappearance of many coastal lagoons, aquifers and soil salinisation and fewer fishable resources [52][53][54], have reduced the National Park attractiveness and negatively affected the natural resources available for development. Even the marine flooding of Saint Louis is now more probable.…”

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“…The Saint Louis region has remarkable natural and cultural attractions to sustain tourism development: Four protected areas; extensive coastal wetlands full of avifauna, the landscapes of the delta, the activity and traditions of the extensive community of around 15,000 artisanal fishermen; and, above all, the monumental city of Saint Louis, that offers a remarkable cultural activity crowned Changes in the natural system, like mangrove area reduction, disappearance of many coastal lagoons, aquifers and soil salinisation and fewer fishable resources [52][53][54], have reduced the National Park attractiveness and negatively affected the natural resources available for development. Even the marine flooding of Saint Louis is now more probable.…”

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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach

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This manuscript uses a social-representational approach that allows for including social interactions, history and cultural background to explain and cluster resident attitudes to tourism in protected areas in developing countries. Based on the published evidence on the failure of community-based tourism programmes and projects that aim to achieve community engagement and benefits, and on scholars attributing those failures to the lack of consideration given to the perceptions and ambitions of the communities, that in turn are split into different groups that perceive tourism dissimilarly, we propose a pathway to encouraging community engagement and participation. Field work carried out throughout the settlements neighbouring the National Park of La Langue de Barbarie in northern Senegal allowed to identify three group profiles: The largest minority are reluctant to accept any type of tourism at all, a second minority actively supports another type of community-based tourism, more locally centred, and a third group consists of those mainly wanting to escape their unwanted existence and migrate. We conclude that, to achieve successful sustainable tourism development, interventions should capacitate the group that supports tourism to lead initiatives, seduce the reluctant ones, energise those who seek to migrate and negotiate with the external tourist agents to achieve more equitable tourism development in which locals actively participate.

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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach

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Management of a Tropical River: Impacts on the Resilience of the Senegal River Estuary

Kane

Humbert

2014

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Tropical rivers are under constant pressure and are subjected to flood control policy and planning. The Senegal River has been, for more than thirty years, under multiple types of management and planning. That has become recently more important because of significant hydro-climatic variability that has occurred during recent years. Higher levels of winter rainfall have resulted in frequent occurrence of flooding which guided Senegalese authorities to create an artificial opening on the sand of spit so-called Langue de Barbarie. The major consequence of this has been the closing of the old mouth of the Senegal estuary 25 km downstream of the town of Saint-Louis. However, two new mouths have opened themselves recently within 150 m of the current mouth. The increasing vulnerability in the Senegal River estuary has been one of the main impacts of the watershed management of the Senegalese northern River accordingly. The developments of Senegal River management policy have been based on the concept of remedying the consequences of climatic events; then, the utilization of water resources presented risks that are far greater than expected.

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A review on coastal erosion and flooding risks and best management practices in West Africa: what has been done and should be done

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Responding to climate variability: the opening of an artificial mouth on the Senegal River

Cited by 4 publications

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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach

Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach

Management of a Tropical River: Impacts on the Resilience of the Senegal River Estuary

A review on coastal erosion and flooding risks and best management practices in West Africa: what has been done and should be done

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