Eco-autopsy of the lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon

Ajeagah Gideon Aghaindum

Description

The Nyos disaster is a terriic and unprecedented environmental tragedy that took in 1986.This is a synopsis of highly specialized scientific research, information in newspapers, documents and articles in specialized media, information from the radio, the television or oral literature from concerned scientists, anthropologists, sociologists or victims that are directly linked to this geo-hazards that killed thousands in Nyos.



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Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Écologie
• Afrique subsaharienne
• Nature
• Géographie
• Environnement
• Cameroun

Informations

• Publié par: L'Harmattan
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• EAN13: 9782140039713
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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A JEAGAH GideonA GHAINDUM

ECOAUTOPSY OF THE LAKE NYOS DISASTER IN CAMEROON 30 years after calamity

Eco-autopsy of the Lake Nyos

disaster in Cameroon

30 years after calamity

A JEAGAH Gideon A GHAINDUM Eco-autopsy of the Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon

30 years after calamity

By the same author Water as a weapon of international confrontations, L’Harmattan, 2017 © L’Harmattan, 2017 5-7, rue de l’École-Polytechnique, 75005 Paris http://www.editions-harmattan.fr ISBN : 978-2-343-12224-3 EAN : 9782343122243

DEDICATION This book is dedicated to all those who lost their lives in the outrageous Lake Nyos disaster of august 1986.

TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ...................................................................7

TABLE OF CONTENTS...................................................9

INTRODUCTION ...........................................................11

CHAPTER I FORMATION AND GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF LAKE NYOS...........................................39

CHAPTER II THE 1986 GAS DISASTER....................51

CHAPTER III ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO- ECONOMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISASTER ..........................................................................................61

CHAPTER IV RETURN OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION ..............................................................101

CONCLUSION..............................................................109

BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................135