Projekt

The motivation for the research is based on the escalation of natural disasters in recent years, which threaten, at the macro level, the continuity of economic growth currently observed in many countries of Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in particular and, at the micro level, the livelihood of the already often vulnerable population hit by the disaster. The failure of formal (state and market) risk management mechanisms in SSA compels research to contribute to the developing of more appropriate instruments for managing natural disaster outcomes in SSA. This research extends previous research efforts based on the single case study of the 1986 Lake Nyos natural gas explosion in Northwest Cameroon, to include floods and droughts, the two most frequent types of natural disasters worldwide and in Africa. A multiple case study approach allows the research team led by Dr. Balgah to test the robustness of the innovative, multi-sector framework that has emerged from the contemporary discourse on appropriate approaches for disaster management in SSA under state and market failure conditions. Field experiments and a structured questionnaire will be used in combination with qualitative instruments to identify determinants of adoption of different risk management instruments, elicit current and future risk behavior, and catalogue a typology of adopted risk management mechanisms across multiple case studies, for victims and non-victims of floods and droughts from the coastal (Southwest) and Sahelian (Northern) Regions of Cameroon respectively. A minimum of two submissions preferably to ISI Journals per annum are targeted. Contributions to an open access discussion paper series will facilitate easy access to African researchers. Overall, the research will validate and propose a novel framework adapted to modeling different types of disasters across SSA countries under state and market failure conditions with subsequent implications for policy.

• Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara

  Universität Frankfurt am Main
  Zentrum für interdisziplinäre
  Afrikaforschung (ZIAF)
  Campus Westend
  Frankfurt am Main
  

• Dr. Roland Azibo Balgah

  Bamenda University of Science and
  Technology
  Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development
  Nkwen, Bamenda
  Kamerun (Cameroun)
  

• Farmers knowledge and perceptions to Climate Variability in North West Cameroon, 3(3): 261-273

• Understanding and Building on Indigenous Agro-Pastoral Adaptation strategies for Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences from Rural Cameroon,

• When nature frowns: A comprehensive impact assessment of the 2012 Babessi floods on people s livelihoods in rural Cameroon,

• The impact of effective management of natural disasters on Africa s development