Development of Integrated Sediment and Environmental Management towards Sustainable Conservation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Livelihood Improvements in Coastal Areas

Establishment of a system for evaluating and planning measures to achieve a positive spiral of coastal conservation and disaster risk reduction

The project aims to promote integrated sediment and environmental management measures that are both sustainable and international in scope to mitigate the coastal erosion and inundation disasters, environmental degradation, and livelihood deprivation that are growing increasingly problematic in West Africa, and to achieve a virtuous cycle of disaster risk reduction, environmental conservation, and deprivation of livelihoods　improvement. To realize these goals, we will monitor and compile a database over sedimentary budgets, coastal deformation, coastal environment, livelihoods, etc., develop analytical tools to predict and evaluate the long-term effects of each measure.

Promotion of coastal erosion countermeasures based on long-term, integrated benefit assessments

The project collects and accumulates the data on sedimentary budgets, coastal deformation, disasters, coastal environment, and livelihoods, and develops a system to study various measures which create a long-term positive spiral of these improvements. By evaluating the integrated and long-term benefits of countermeasure effects, the project will contribute to the promotion of measures against chronic coastal erosion that is progressing across national borders along the coast of West Africa.