Strengthening regional collaboration and integration (English)

West Africa’s coastal area is critical to the region, home to a third of its people and the source of about half of its gross domestic product (GDP). Because most of it is composed of mangroves and sand formations, the area’s coastline is also highly vulnerable to erosion caused by coastal currents and storm surges. Erosion is evident from Mauritania to Gabon - and the rates of erosion are increasing. Around the port of Lome, for example, Togo’s coastline...

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Document Date
2016/04/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
101183
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Western Africa,
Disclosure Date
2016/05/11
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Strengthening regional collaboration and integration
Keywords
United Nations Environment Programme

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Strengthening regional collaboration and integration (English). 1|West Africa coastal areas management program knowledge sheet Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/775921468181130681

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