Natural Hazards in West and Central Africa [electronic resource] / edited by Samuel J. Freeth, Charles O. Ofoegbu, K. Mosto Onuoha.

Attention to the problems posed by natural hazards in West and Central Africa was brought into sharp focus by the deaths of an estimated 1700 people in the valleys to the north of Lake Nyos in 1986. Prior to that the only, well documented, major natural catastrophe was the 1983 earthquake which kill...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Freeth, Samuel J.
Other Authors:	Ofoegbu, Charles O., Onuoha, K. Mosto
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wiesbaden : Vieweg+Teubner Verlag : Imprint : Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1992.
Series:	International monograph series.
Subjects:	Life sciences.