Skip to content
Site Tools
Narrow screen resolution Wide screen resolution Auto adjust screen size Increase font size Decrease font size Default font size default color blue color green color
You are here: INDR Home arrow About INDR arrow Search Member Profiles arrow Charles Eyong
Charles Eyong Profile Page
Charles Eyong
Online Status OFFLINE
Member Since 11/21/2008
 

Additional Info

Location: Bonn, Germany
Occupation: Development Researcher
Company: Center for Development Research (ZEFa)
Address: Walter-Flex Str. 3
City: Bonn
State: NRW
Zip Code: 53113
Country: Germany
Phone #: +49228734982
Short Statement: Short Statement: National Parks are ecological, economic and social hot-beds and so represent the diverse interests of many social actors. The often powerful and well connected state actors demonize the livelihoods activities of local residents and use hastily enacted green forestry legislations to forcibly relocate park indigenes. This process often gains the support (financial and technical) of international donors. With the surging body of knowledge on the repercussive effects on both the displaced and the natural environment, it is time to review what works well for both people and nature. One of such approaches is to balance the conservation goal of the protected area as well as the perceived needs of its inhabitants. Encourage community crafted rules that have long constrained abusive extraction as well as unauthorized entrants.


Displacement Experience: The Korup National Park pilot resettlement scheme, Southwest, Cameroon.

Publications: 2003: Potential effects and mitigation measures of forced relocations in sub Saharan Africa. Master thesis submitted to the Department of Human Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Accomplishments: Since 1999: Socio-economic impacts of resettlements in and around the Korup National Park forest area. As Junior Consultant for Dr. Kai Schmidt-Soltau Consultancy for Social Sciences Cameroon, P. O Box 60 Buea, Cameroon

Since 2005: Actor oriented perspectives of the relocation as a natural resource management option for Korup National Park, Cameroon. As doctoral student at the Center for Development Research University of Bonn, Germany
Highest Degree: Doctoral studies

Forum

Simpleboard forum component is not installed. Please contact your site administrator.
Cote d'Ivoire:Protest by Social Scientists
 A large group of West Africa, Europe, and North American academics and social scientists, many of whom are students of population displacement, have signed onto an editorial written and circulated by a group of West African academics and social scientists.  They argue that the former President of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, is abusively clinging to power after having blatantly tried to falsifiy the recent elections. The point out that international bodies have confirmed that the opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, has defeated Gbagbo. Nonetheless, the Gbagbo and his military supporters prevent the access to power of the newly-elected President. The likelihood of renewed violent conflict, civil war, and bloodshed in Cote d'Ivoire is high and increasing, involving obvious risks of renewed massive uprooting and population displacement. 
 

Login & Registration

Members Online

No Users Online