The disappearance of Lake Chad: history of a myth by Géraud Magrin

“…The article explores the hydropolitics of Lake Chad. Scientific and popular views on the fate of Lake Chad differ widely. …”
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Climate Change and Environmental Conflict in The Lake Chad Region by Omosefe Oyekanmi

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Biomass Burning and Water Balance Dynamics in the Lake Chad Basin in Africa by Forrest W. Black, Jejung Lee, Charles M. Ichoku, Luke Ellison, Charles K. Gatebe, Rakiya Babamaaji, Khodayar Abdollahi, Soma San

Subjects: “…Lake Chad Basin…”
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The Split in Boko Haram and Its Impact for the Lake Chad Basin Region by T. S. Denisova, S. V. Kostelyanets

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Prevalence of Gills Helminth of Clarias Gariepinus in Baga Side of Lake Chad by MI Allumma, RT Idowu

“…The prevalence of helminth infection in the gill and stomach of Clarias gariepinus in Baga site of lake Chad was investigated by this study. Ninety samples of Clarias gariepinus were collected from Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria between March and August of 2007 and examined for helminth parasites. …”
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Proposed Solutions to the Problems of the Lake Chad Fisheries: Resilience Lessons for Africa? by Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor, Tim Gray, Kelechi Ani, Selina Stead

“…Fishing communities in Lake Chad are experiencing humanitarian crises—more than five million people in the region are hungry and malnourished—and fishers are in dire need of improved fisheries management policies. …”
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Recent Surface Water Extent of Lake Chad from Multispectral Sensors and GRACE by Willibroad Gabila Buma, Sang-Il Lee, Jae Young Seo

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Environment-Conflict Nexus in the Sahel Region: Lake Chad as a Case in Point by Arushi Singh

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State Weakness and Regional Security Instability: Evidence from Africa’s Lake Chad Region by Babatunde F. Obamamoye

“…It is on this note that this article draws on the contemporary developments in the Lake Chad region to elucidate the nodes that connect state weakness and regional security instability. …”
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Assessment of changes in Aerial Extent of Lake Chad using Satellite Remote Sensing Data by NI Alfa, CO Adeofun, ET Ologunorisa

“…The study assessed the changes in the aerial extent of Lake Chad using satellite based data sources between 1963 and 2000. …”
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Water Resources, Forced Migration and Tensions with Host Communities in the Nigerian Part of the Lake Chad Basin by Frederic Noel Kamta, Janpeter Schilling, Jürgen Scheffran

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Calibration and Validation of SWAT Model by Using Hydrological Remote Sensing Observables in the Lake Chad Basin by Ali Bennour, Li Jia, Massimo Menenti, Chaolei Zheng, Yelong Zeng, Beatrice Asenso Barnieh, Min Jiang

“…The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was calibrated using only twelve months of remote sensing data on actual evapotranspiration (ETa) geospatially distributed in the 37 sub-basins of the Lake Chad Basin in Africa. Global sensitivity analysis was conducted to identify influential model parameters by applying the Sequential Uncertainty Fitting Algorithm–version 2 (SUFI-2), included in the SWAT-Calibration and Uncertainty Program (SWAT-CUP). …”
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Seasonal Migration and Settlement around Lake Chad: Strategies for Control of Resources in an Increasingly Drying Lake by Felix Watang Zieba, Genesis Tambang Yengoh, Abdouraman Tom

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The racial biopolitics of humanitarianism in Africa: examining European resilience-building in the Sahel and lake Chad Basin by Akinyemi Oyawale, Laura Corral Corral

“…This paper examines humanitarianism in the “Global South” through engaging with resilience projects in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin (LCB) in Africa. It addresses how recent humanitarianism has moved away from top-down interventions which sought to either intervene to save those that have been rendered as “bare life” (Agamben, 1998: 4) by their own governments or improve the state’s —especially “fragile” and “failing” ones— capacity to govern, towards society-based projects which seek to produce resilient subjects. …”
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Change detection for the past three decades using geospatial approach in Lake Chad, central Africa by Hussaini, A., Mahmud, M. R., Tang, K. K. W.

“…Lakes are extremely touchy and dynamic parts of the earth and have a pivotal part in the farming, environment, industrial and domestic purposes. In Central Africa, Lake Chad Basin (LCB) has observed an uninterrupted decrease in its water level for the past decades as a result of certain variables such as climate change and over-abstraction, and likewise part of dry spells. …”
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Investigation of Short-Term Evolution of Soil Characteristics over the Lake Chad Basin Using GRACE Data by Teodolina Lopez, Guillaume Ramillien, Raphaël Antoine, José Darrozes, Yu-Jun Cui, Yann Kerr

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Evaluation of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 Images for Estimating Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in Lake Chad, Africa by Willibroad Gabila Buma, Sang-Il Lee

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Using open-source software GRASS GIS for analysis of the environmental patterns in Lake Chad, Central Africa by Lemenkova Polina

“…Lake Chad, situated in the semi-arid region of African Sahel, plays a vital role in hydrogeological balance of regional ecosystems. …”
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Countering the Islamic State in the Lake Chad Basin: A case for a security-development-governance nexus? by Norman Sempijja, Paula Mora Brito, Zineb Moutaouakil

“…AbstractThe Islamic State in the West African province (ISWAP) has gained prominence in Lake Chad Basin by filling in the security, service delivery, and governance gaps in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. …”
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Groundwater Resources of the Transboundary Quaternary Aquifer of the Lake Chad Basin: Towards a Better Management via Isotope Hydrology by Fricelle Song, Bertil Nlend, Suzanne Ngo Boum-Nkot, Frederic Huneau, Gustave Nkoue Ndondo, Emilie Garel, Thomas Leydier, Helene Celle, Boris Djieugoue, Marie-Joseph Ntamak-Nida, Jacques Etame

“…A multi-tracer approach has been implemented in the southwestern part of the Lake Chad Basin to depict the functioning of aquifers in terms of recharge, relationship with surface water bodies, flow paths and contamination. …”
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