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Assessing Risk and Social Vulnerability in Environmental Hazards Context

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Assessing Risk and Social Vulnerability in Environmental Hazards Context The relevance and connections of the research to a wider academic context In Senegal, every year an increasing number of people [1] suffer from water-related hazards (coastal erosion and floods). Related risks are insufficiently studied, because they are complex and intertwined. They indeed jeopardize survival in these habitats that grapple with many other problems. This is the context that triggered my desire to develop a wide research which attempts to analysis the Risk and Social Vulnerability in Environmental Hazards Context. In effect, the question is insufficiently studied in Africa and in Senegal . In addition to the technical dimension, there is also a need for an in-depth analysis of concepts in use. Given that vulnerability feeds on poverty, the other concepts, to be dealt with, interact with risk, survival techniques and the search of sustainable solution . The dilemma of floods,...
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Cartography of the Senegalese killed overseas during 2015

Cartography of the Senegalese killed overseas during 2015 Mame Demba THIAM, Nicolas SAGNA & Alla  MANGA Laboratory of geography Fondamental Institute of Black Africa Cheikh Anta Diop university Link : French version :  http://arcg.is/2jSZAyg http://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=s%C3%A9n%C3%A9galais&t=content Introduction « Once again, a Senegalese is killed overseas » has been in 2015 a constant headline displayed by the online journals. One thing that can be noted is the kind of trivialization of the repetitive character of the information. However the gravity could only be appreciated on a scale of space and time offered by a synoptic view. Indeed, that sensitive information which is subject of a mapping chronic Linked to space by a dynamic process relies on a powerful mapping information system. We can see the places where there has been victims of murder, assassination, or other kind of violence which end by a sudden death. ELEME...
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