Publications scientifiques
2007Article de revueanglaisAccès ouvert
First Central African PAGES Workshop (ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
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Université de Yaoundé I
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Publications scientifiques
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PAGES news
2007 at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. This three-day gathering was designed to bring together paleoscientists, researchers, teachers, stakeholders, and decision/policy makers, with the goal of encouraging research collaboration and capacity building, and attempting to close the gap between policy and research in paleoscience and global change. The workshop attracted over 70 participants from the Central African subregion and beyond. Broadly defi ned, Central Africa embraces that part of the continent that straddles both sides of the equator for about 15 o and is drained largely by the Congo River system (Fig. It has a wide range of ecosystems varying from mangroves at the coastlines through tropical rainforest at the equator to grassland savannah and Soudano-Sahelian types towards the north. Central Africa has a population of over 100 million with one of the highest annual population increases (2.4-3.5%) in the world. Natural (landslides, volcanic eruption) and human-induced disasters (drought, desertifi cation, fl ood, epidemics and refugees) are frequent and on the rise.