A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management

The paucity of a comprehensive document on Cameroon’s hazard/disaster risk profile is limitation to the country wide assessment and adequate disaster resilience. This article narrows this gap by retrospectively exploring profile. has been achieved through an investigative approach that applies set qualitative methods derive articulate inventory analysis hazards/disasters in Cameroon. findings indicate Cameroon array high incidence/frequency hazards have had devastating consequences. structured along four profiles: classification all hazard types plaguing into natural, potentially socio-natural, technological, social anthropogenic hazards; occurrence/origin their impacts/effects ‘at risk’ communities/populace potential management or mitigation measures. In-depth natural lowest frequency but cause highest fatalities single incident; socio-natural affect largest number people widest geographical areas, technological occurrence; while social/anthropogenic are newest caused population displacement. Arguably, multi-hazard/disaster presented serves as vital preliminary step more