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| Titel |
MT. CAMEROON SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT THROUGH TRADITIONAL SURVEY METHODS [FP7-ENV-2007-1] Project MIA-VITA (Mitigate and assess risk from volcanic impact on terrain and human activities) |
| VerfasserIn |
Maria Ilaria Pannaccione Apa, Emmanuel Kouokam, Robert Mbe Akoko, Pierre Thierry, Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2011
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Artikel
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 13 (2011) |
| Datensatznummer |
250048468
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The project MIA-VITA has been designed to address multidisciplinary aspects of volcanic threat assessment and management in Indonesia (Merapi volcano), Philippines (Kanlaon volcano), Cabo Verde (Fogo volcano) and Cameroon (Mt. Cameroon volcano) from prevention to crisis management recovery.
MT. CAMEROON
The Africa’s Mount Cameroon (4095 m) is an active stratovolcano of dominantly basaltic composition. Half million people live nearby, in an area comprising one of Cameroon's main economic resources, and including the cities of Buea and Limbe. Additional risk arises from landslides at many places around the volcano.
The MIA-VITA project for socio-economic analysis in Cameroon is aimed at finding out the correct way to provide the best information to local people about the natural risks, organized preventions planning and tools to help the local ethnic groups to better perceive the risk, in collaboration with the local chiefdoms and the central government.
FIRST FIELDWORK CAMPAIGN DESCRIPTION AND DATA GATHERING METHODS
The first fieldwork for the first mission was carried out in the Mount Cameroon region for four months from 4th November 2009 to 15th March 2010.
Collection of statistical data has been recorded. Interview, key-informant interviews, participant observations, life stories and focused group discussions were the main methods used to collect the data. In the course of gathering data, interviews were transcribed and recorded. GPS were also used in marking the points where the interviews were done. Pidgin and English languages were used. The gathered data, (geological, hydrological, social and ethnographic) have been integrated into an interactive GIS environment produced by MINIMIDT (Ministere de l'Industrie, des Mines et du Developpement Technologique), MIA-VITA partner of Cameroon.
FIRST RESULTS OBTAINED
Vulnerability: Social communication: Not all the settlements are English speaking and where Pidgin language and related culture were strongly rooted, it was important to approach the people from their traditional and cultural points of view, in order to make all information (as hazard knowledge, how to cope with natural risks, etc.) really available and intelligible.
Infrastructures: Houses are built mainly with wood and concrete blocks. In several cases, villages are built on old landslides, and cultivation of plantains is practised after a disasters, despite government warnings against the danger of landslides.
Resilience: To be analysed in detail at the end of the data collection exercise for the Mt. Cameroon environment.
Keyword: Project MIA-VITA, Mt. Cameroon, socio-economic analysis, interactive GIS environment |
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