Socio-ecological resilience of vulnerable communities in the Senegal River Delta to climate change
Djiby Sambou’s research aims to study the ecological vulnerability of the Senegal River Delta to natural disasters and climate change. This research focuses in particular on the perceptions and means of adaptation of coastal communities in Saint-Louis, Senegal, with regard to this vulnerability and probable evolution scenarios.
Biography
Djiby Sambou is a lecturer and researcher at Amadou Mahtar MBOW University in Dakar (Senegal). After obtaining a Master’s degree in environmental management from Senghor University in Alexandria (Egypt), he became interested in issues of climate change and water resources in West Africa, a field to which he devoted his doctoral thesis, funded by the WASCAL program, at the University of Abomey Calavi in Cotonou (Benin). His research focuses on cross-cutting themes related to the responses of social and hydro-ecological systems to disturbances, stresses and changes. He is also interested in environmental education issues (sustainable development; climate change).
Listen to Djiby Sambou talk about his work and his experience during the Instant Recherche webinar “The social sciences’ view of disasters” on May 18, 2021