Diurnal CO2 flux responses in cultivated savanna in Benin (West Africa)

Scientific conference (2012, February 08)

Analyse des inondations en aval du barrage de Nangbeto sur le fleuve Mono (Togo et au Bénin).

in Geo-Eco-Trop (2005), 29

The analysis of risk of flood downstream from the hydroelectric dam of Nangbeto in the Mono River was about the survey of interannual variability of rainfall and rivers flows from 1955 to 1999, the ... [more ▼]

The analysis of risk of flood downstream from the hydroelectric dam of Nangbeto in the Mono River was about the survey of interannual variability of rainfall and rivers flows from 1955 to 1999, the population vulnerability, the hydrological modification and the impacts downstream in Togo and Benin from the dam constructed in 1987. The analysis of the mean annuel discharge has revealed no tendency, showing thus that the change of land use, the increase of waterproof areas and even the functioning of the hydroelectric dam have not modified in a significant manner the river's rate of flow. Apart from the return to the improvement in rainfull as far back as the end of years 80, the anthropic pressure and the demographic explosion have best explained the magnitude and frequency of flooding downstream from the hydroelectric dam of Nangbeto. The soil degradation, the deforestation of the floodplain, the increase in the number of human settlements in the river boundary increases the vulnerability of population faced with flooding. [less ▲]