A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management
The paucity of a comprehensive document on Cameroon’s hazard/disaster risk profile is a limitation to the country wide risk assessment and adequate disaster resilience. This article narrows this gap by retrospectively exploring Cameroon’s hazard/disaster profile. This has been achieved through an in...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
MDPI AG
2022-02-01
|
| Series: | GeoHazards |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2624-795X/3/1/4 |
| _version_ | 1827648793738215424 |
|---|---|
| author | Henry Ngenyam Bang |
| author_facet | Henry Ngenyam Bang |
| author_sort | Henry Ngenyam Bang |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The paucity of a comprehensive document on Cameroon’s hazard/disaster risk profile is a limitation to the country wide risk assessment and adequate disaster resilience. This article narrows this gap by retrospectively exploring Cameroon’s hazard/disaster profile. This has been achieved through an investigative approach that applies a set of qualitative methods to derive and articulate an inventory and analysis of hazards/disasters in Cameroon. The findings indicate that Cameroon has a wide array and high incidence/frequency of hazards that have had devastating consequences. The hazards have been structured along four profiles: a classification of all hazard types plaguing Cameroon into natural, potentially socio-natural, technological, and social and anthropogenic hazards; occurrence/origin of the hazards; their impacts/effects to the ‘at risk’ communities/populace and potential disaster management or mitigation measures. In-depth analysis indicate that natural hazards have the lowest frequency but the potential to cause the highest fatalities in a single incident; potentially socio-natural hazards affect the largest number of people and the widest geographical areas, technological hazards have the highest frequency of occurrence; while social/anthropogenic hazards are the newest in the country but have caused the highest population displacement. Arguably, the multi-hazard/disaster inventory presented in this article serves as a vital preliminary step to a more comprehensive profile of Cameroon’s disaster risk profile. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-09T19:46:59Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-15c71e643a1f4871adfce978bbfd1f30 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2624-795X |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-09T19:46:59Z |
| publishDate | 2022-02-01 |
| publisher | MDPI AG |
| record_format | Article |
| series | GeoHazards |
| spelling | doaj.art-15c71e643a1f4871adfce978bbfd1f302023-11-24T01:20:07ZengMDPI AGGeoHazards2624-795X2022-02-0131558710.3390/geohazards3010004A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster ManagementHenry Ngenyam Bang0Disaster Management Centre, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole BH12 5BB, UKThe paucity of a comprehensive document on Cameroon’s hazard/disaster risk profile is a limitation to the country wide risk assessment and adequate disaster resilience. This article narrows this gap by retrospectively exploring Cameroon’s hazard/disaster profile. This has been achieved through an investigative approach that applies a set of qualitative methods to derive and articulate an inventory and analysis of hazards/disasters in Cameroon. The findings indicate that Cameroon has a wide array and high incidence/frequency of hazards that have had devastating consequences. The hazards have been structured along four profiles: a classification of all hazard types plaguing Cameroon into natural, potentially socio-natural, technological, and social and anthropogenic hazards; occurrence/origin of the hazards; their impacts/effects to the ‘at risk’ communities/populace and potential disaster management or mitigation measures. In-depth analysis indicate that natural hazards have the lowest frequency but the potential to cause the highest fatalities in a single incident; potentially socio-natural hazards affect the largest number of people and the widest geographical areas, technological hazards have the highest frequency of occurrence; while social/anthropogenic hazards are the newest in the country but have caused the highest population displacement. Arguably, the multi-hazard/disaster inventory presented in this article serves as a vital preliminary step to a more comprehensive profile of Cameroon’s disaster risk profile.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-795X/3/1/4disaster risk profilemulti-hazard inventoriesCameroondisaster managementdisaster risk reductionnatural hazards |
| spellingShingle | Henry Ngenyam Bang A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management GeoHazards disaster risk profile multi-hazard inventories Cameroon disaster management disaster risk reduction natural hazards |
| title | A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management |
| title_full | A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management |
| title_fullStr | A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management |
| title_short | A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management |
| title_sort | concise appraisal of cameroon s hazard risk profile multi hazard inventories causes consequences and implications for disaster management |
| topic | disaster risk profile multi-hazard inventories Cameroon disaster management disaster risk reduction natural hazards |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2624-795X/3/1/4 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT henryngenyambang aconciseappraisalofcameroonshazardriskprofilemultihazardinventoriescausesconsequencesandimplicationsfordisastermanagement AT henryngenyambang conciseappraisalofcameroonshazardriskprofilemultihazardinventoriescausesconsequencesandimplicationsfordisastermanagement |