Cameroon GCE O-Level Geography case studies
Cameroon GCE O-Level Geography · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The GCE Ordinary Level is one of the certificate examinations organised by the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Board in Cameroon. The Board was created by Decree Nº:93/172 of 1st July 1993, which empowered it to organise GCE examinations at the Ordinary and Advanced Levels; it now operates under Decree No. The Cameroon GCE O-Level Geography case studies are 5 cases and about 4,246 words.
1Coastal flooding in Bonabéri: drain, plinths or no-build zone?
The Douala IV council must decide how to spend a 1.2 billion FCFA flood budget for Bonabéri. The district sits on the left bank of the Wouri estuary, 1–3 m above mean sea level, and receives roughly 3,500 mm of rain a year, most of it between June and October.
815 words, about 4 min2Zoning new housing on the flanks of Mount Cameroon
Limbe III is preparing a land-use plan. Mount Cameroon (4,095 m) rises directly behind the town, and eruptions from flank fissures in 1999 and 2000 produced lava flows that cut the Limbe–Idenau road and reached the coast.
889 words, about 4 min3Cocoa cooperative: replanting against price collapse
A cocoa cooperative in the Centre Region has 120 members farming 480 ha in total, an average of 4 ha each. Most trees were planted between 1972 and 1985 at 3 m × 3 m under remnant forest shade.
856 words, about 4 min4Maga dam: releasing water for the floodplain in a dry year
The Maga dam in the Far North stores Logone water for a 5,500 ha rice scheme run by a parastatal. When the reservoir spills, the same water inundates the downstream floodplain, where about 20,000 people in several villages graze cattle on dry-season bourgou pasture and fish in residual pools.
838 words, about 4 min5Kribi industrial extension and the mangrove decision
An environmental impact assessment is being scoped for a 60 ha extension of the industrial zone behind Kribi's deep-water port. The site is a mangrove-fringed coastal flat with Avicennia and Rhizophora stands and tidal creeks, and three fishing villages of about 1,800 people who land and smoke fish there.
848 words, about 4 min