RT Report
T1 Coastal Erosion in West and Central Africa: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 67
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 aerial photography
K1 coastal erosion
K1 coastal zone management
K1 continental shelf
K1 geology
K1 marine pollution
K1 meteorology
K1 ocean current
K1 oceanography
K1 ocean
K1 coastal area
K1 remote sensing
K1 sea level
K1 sedimentation
K1 soil
K1 tidal energy
K1 urbanization
K1 vegetation
K1 West Africa
K1 Central Africa
YR 1985
FD 1985
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29369
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29369
NO This report was conceived with a naturalistic approach, i.e. global and inter-regional, incorporating different parameters which shape the coastal zone. It is subdivided into 3 main parts. The first one takes into account factors influencing coastal morphogenesis : climate and general oceanography, as first order environmental parameters ; geological formations as substrate over which the former exert their action, and the nature of the vegetation cover and of the soils they generate ; sediments distribution on the continental shelf, sources of these sediments (not necessarily of a terrigenous origin), hydrodynamic factors which rework the sediments ; sea level variations (minute at human's scale, but globally important), and, last but not least, man's interaction with the coastal zone.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 24, 2026