Chami, ville nouvelle et ville de l’or.Une trajectoire urbaine insolite en Mauritanie

Gagnol, Laurent; Magrin, Géraud; Chevrillon-Guibert, Raphaëlle

doi:10.4000/espacepolitique.6562

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“…This reinforces the conclusion of our findings on the need for networking at all scales and mobilization across different strands and countries of study. Furthermore, the SGGW should not be considered only at a regional level, as its success also depends on integration into local projects, as is the case in the city of Chami in Mauritania [38]. Finally, many studies illustrate the difficult linkages between the national and local scales in SGGW programmes to show the importance of involving local communities and taking into account local knowledge for the success of the SGGW.…”

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Accelerate the Mobilization of African and International Scientific Expertise to Boost Interdisciplinary Research for the Success of the Sahelian Great Green Wall by 2030

Bruckmann

Chotte

Duponnois

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The Sahelian Great Green Wall (SGGW) is an influential project to combat desertification and promote sustainable land management on a large scale, involving 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. The UNCCD’s 2020 progress report showed a mixed picture concerning the meeting of the initial targets. At the One Planet Summit in 2021, announcements were made to consolidate the implementation of the SGGW, most notably with the creation of the Great Green Wall Accelerator. In this context, our paper sets out to review the scientific work conducted with regard to the SGGW. We have thus carried out a bibliometric analysis of the literature on SGGW. Although the initiative involves 11 countries and covers a large spectrum of scientific disciplines, our results show the predominance of ecological studies in the SGGW literature and a concentration of studies in certain geographies of interest, such as northern Senegal. Moreover, based on a secondary analysis of publications on land restoration and sustainable ecosystem management in Sahelian countries, we show that the literature relevant to SGGW topics is richer and fills in the information gaps we have identified at thematic and geographical levels. By showing that SGGW studies are overly focused on certain topics and geographical areas, our paper argues for a better interdisciplinary mobilization of researchers working on GGW-related topics. The scientific and operational success of the project depends on stronger networking between the different research teams and themes, both in Africa and internationally.

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confidence: 99%

Accelerate the Mobilization of African and International Scientific Expertise to Boost Interdisciplinary Research for the Success of the Sahelian Great Green Wall by 2030

Bruckmann

Chotte

Duponnois

et al. 2022

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“…A Saharan meteorite's finding its way to a high-end London auction house bears witness to the extent of the involvement of global actors in this remote location and makes clear that the processes analysed in this chapter should not be categorized as merely internal, regional or even continental, but should instead be seen as part of a globally integrated reading of the Saharan region. 4 Here, as in other African locations, precious metals extracted by artisanal miners often change hands without much official oversight because of a lack of regulation and insufficient enforcement of what rules there are, as authorities struggle to control the informal entrepreneurial efforts of the impoverished population -a reality that has been well documented by various international organizations and individual researchers (Bazillier and Girard 2019;5 Artisanal gold mining in Mauritania Moustapha Taleb Heidi CRIA -NOVA FCSH, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Capsahara Gagnol, Magrin and Chevrillon-Guibert 2019;Hunter 2020;Maconachie and Hilson 2011;Spiegel 2015).…”

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Artisanal gold mining in Mauritania

Heidi¹

2022

State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara

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Artisanal Exploitation of Mineral Resources: Remote Sensing Observations of Environmental Consequences, Social and Ethical Aspects

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Since the rise of the gold price in 2000, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a growing economic activity in developing countries. It represents a source of income for several millions of people in West Africa. Exploitation techniques have evolved from traditional gold panning to mechanization and use of chemical products that are harmful for the environment. Government strategies to control and regulate this activity are impeded by the difficulties to collect spatial information, due to the remote location and the mobile and informal natural of ASGM. Here we present and discuss the value of remote sensing techniques to complement the knowledge on artisanal mining impacts, including for detection of illegal sites, the evaluation of the degradation of soils and waters, the deforestation and the monitoring of expansion of ASGM with time. However, these techniques are blind regarding gender issues, labor relations, mobility, migration, and insecurity and need to be considered with knowledges from other disciplines. Remote sensing is also instilled with various powers accruing to those enabled to produce and interpret these data. Remote sensing should be therefore used in a reflexive manner that accounts for the social, ethical and political implications of ASGM governance informed by space observations.

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Chami, ville nouvelle et ville de l’or.Une trajectoire urbaine insolite en Mauritanie

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Accelerate the Mobilization of African and International Scientific Expertise to Boost Interdisciplinary Research for the Success of the Sahelian Great Green Wall by 2030

Accelerate the Mobilization of African and International Scientific Expertise to Boost Interdisciplinary Research for the Success of the Sahelian Great Green Wall by 2030

Artisanal gold mining in Mauritania

Artisanal Exploitation of Mineral Resources: Remote Sensing Observations of Environmental Consequences, Social and Ethical Aspects

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