Health risk and adaptation to climate change in Senegal

Senegal faces numerous challenges linked to coastal dynamics, climate change and the assessment of health risk factors. The coastline, a sea-land interface zone including the coastal strip, estuaries, deltas and the continental shelf, represents a strategic area for socio-economic development. It is exposed to a dual anthropogenic pressure (urban, industrial, agricultural, fishing and tourism) and climate change. In the current context of climate change and its corollaries, Senegal's coastline is exposed to a number of risks and natural disasters, generating profound social, economic and environmental transformations that need to be analyzed in a holistic way, in order to understand the perception of different socio-cultural collectives of the links between climate change and natural disasters.

Autorentext

MODOU NDIAYE é geógrafo e autor de uma tese intitulada "La planification urbaine à l'épreuve du développement durable au Sénégal" ("O planejamento urbano colocado à prova do desenvolvimento sustentável no Senegal"). É pesquisador afiliado à REMIGRAF no IFAN-Cheikh Anta, Universidade Cheikh Anta Diop. Seu trabalho se concentra no planejamento espacial, no desenvolvimento sustentável, na migração e na geografia da saúde.