Coastal systems in the Anthropocene are facing complex and compounding challenges associated with the interaction between climate change impacts and human intervention. In West Africa, large sedimentary systems are susceptible to change in sediment sources and supply, and changes in climate forcing have influenced the development of these coastal frameworks over centuries and millennia. But over more recent decades and centuries, the role of climate variability is compounded with the decisions and interventions of humans, through artificial modification of coastal systems, regulation and control of watersheds, and construction of settlements and structures that interfere with coastal processes.
The research addresses key dimensions of coastal vulnerability in Senegal and the wider West African region, with particular attention to the:
Interactions between climate variability, ocean dynamics, and coastal systems;
Patterns of exposure and sensitivity to coastal hazards such as erosion, flooding, and storms;
Governance and coastal management challenges in a context of accelerating environmental change.
The project is still ongoing.
Key Information
Funding from Schlumberger Foundation
- Dramé, A. B. (2025). Coastal response to human interventions and climate variability: The Senegal estuary shoreline. UCL (University College London). (pp. 1–413). https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215571/
- Dramé, A. B. (2025). Spatio-economic valuation of sand in the context of shoreline (in)stability in the Senegal estuary (West Africa) integrating DeltaDTM and LiDAR technology. Natural Resources Forum – United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, Special Issue on Oceans for the UN 2025 Ocean Conference, 10.
- Burningham, H., Polizel, S., & Dramé, A. B. (2022). Morphodynamics of Tropical Atlantic River Mouths and their Adjacent Shorelines (pp. 1–18). https://doi.org/10.53061/ORMQ3496
- Dramé, A. B., Burningham, H., & Sall, M. (2024). Ocean and Wave Climate Variability in West Africa, and Implications for Alongshore Sediment Transport on the Senegal-Mauritania Coast. Journal of Coastal Research, 113(sp1), 670–674. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCR-SI113-132.1
Principal Investigator: Dr Awa B. Dramé
Institutional Contact
Research enquiries: research@coastgis.org
Communications & partnerships: communication@coastgis.org
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