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There is a wide variety of wetland environments in West Africa. They include various kinds of floodplains (for example those of the Senegal, Niger and Logone-Chari system), larger inland deltas and lacustrine wetlands (notably Lake Chad and the Niger Inland Delta in Mali), and coastal and delta environments (for example the deltas of the Senegal, Niger and Volta Rivers, the Basse Casamance or the Banc d'Arguin in Mauritania). Most of them support substantial communities of people, who depend on their natural resources and the ecology and hydrological patterns that maintain them. Indigenous systems of water resource management include agriculture (including flood cropping, notably of rice, flood recession cropping and various kinds of irrigation at various scales), fishing and pastoralism. In the Sahel in particular, wetlands provide a vital element in the resources available to people not only within but well beyond their immediate boundaries. Many of these wetlands also support internationally important populations of wild species, those in the Sahel, for example, providing important links in the Palaearctic-African bird migration flyway. Water resource development projects can have serious implications for the ecology and economy of wetlands in West Africa, and great care is needed to ensure that development projects do not cause real economic costs that outweigh potential economic benefits.
The Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has the highest circulation of any British academic journal in its field and publishes original research papers and review articles, which range across the entire subject of geography; they are restricted neither by area nor by topic. Post-2010 the journal has concentrated on articles relating to issues of public debate and policy-oriented agendas. Since 2000, the journal has contained limited Society news, but publishes a report of the Society's AGM and the Presidential address made at that meeting. JSTOR provides a digital archive of the print version of The Geographical Journal. The electronic version of The Geographical Journal is available at http://www.rgs.org/GJ. Authorized users may be able to access the full text articles at this site.
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