Characterizing the spatio-temporal dynamics of social vulnerability in Burkina Faso: A comparison of Principal Component Analysis with Equal Weighting

Global climate change has results in a higher frequency of extreme disaster events and is therefore a serious challenge in disaster impact management. Disaster risk is composed of several components, such as vulnerability, susceptibility, exposure and the probability of occurence and intensity of a hazard. Vulnerability has become a topical...

Burkinabé Domesticity: A contextualized response to rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Burkina Faso is a developing country that is in a demographic transition. Its diverse population with dozens of ethnic groups, each with its own values and traditions, is growing at an extreme rate and exemplifies the phenomenon of rapid urbanization. However, the current social housing programs exclude more than 50% of the population, living...

Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Volta Sub-Basin

This study on sustainable irrigation development identified growing markets for irrigated products as an important driving force behind the expansion of irrigation which has given rise to new technologies. The new technologies have spread because they gave farmers direct control over water sources. These new technologies allow relatively small...

Irrigatie & Kleinschalige Waterkracht

"Multi purpose project van kleinschalige waterkracht en irrigatie in het stroomgebied van de Moun Hou in Burkina Faso". De rapporten die hiervan onderdeel uitmaken zijn: - Deel I Vooronderzoek - Deel II Deelonderzoek fotogrammetrie - Deel III Deelonderzoek hydrologie - Deel IV Hoofdonderzoek Deel IV: Drie ontwerpvariabelen t.w. - damhoogte -...