title: Toward an integrated management plan of the Djoudj Park water resources: Senegal River mouth.
abstract: A new approach was needed to preserve the biodiversity of the Djoudj Park within a context marked by many constraints: drought, regulation of its hydrologic system, and anthropogenic pressure. The local management plan developed in this paper aims at the responsible management and fair distribution of the available water resources in the Djoudj Park to provide a balanced response to conservation issues and the growing needs of the local communities. The opposition between an administration determined to exercise its power and the confidence of local people weary of being stripped of their rights and cultural assets required the setting up of a consensual management plan. This plan would provide a means to determine the timing and the number of sluice gates to operate, based on an efficient command of the needs for water for each activity in the park and its surroundings. This tool will allow the park authority to take full cognizance of the needs and opinions of all interest groups but also their limits while keeping the essential functions of this wetland. It is also suggested that institutional and administrative reform be carried out to associate local populations in the definition and implementation of criteria for an integrated management of the Djoudj resources.
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Sciences, Department of Geography, Room# 727, Minami-Osawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan. fall-ousmane@c.metro-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Ousmane
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fall
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Hironobu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kan
authors.forename: Mbarack
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diop
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D012675:Senegal; D014881:Water Supply