Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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An Assessment of Ethical Issues in Social and Science Research
(The journal of psychology and behavioral sciences, 2013)Ethical behavior is important in all aspect of life. This is certainly true of social research and Research in hard Sciences. The best way to think about ethical behavior is to ask how you would expect to be treated if ... -
Gender and Christology in Africa for social and political involvement
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)The person, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the central tenets of the Christian mystery. The theological reflection upon the meanings of these is summed up in Christology. This paper seeks to explore the ... -
Gender in Religion and Development Research: Appropriating Feminist Epistemology and Methodology for Religion and Development Research in Sub-Sahara Africa.
(University of Bamberg Press,, 2020-06-09)A rights-based approach to development considers specific ways in which sustainable development is interlinked to human rights and how achieving them may transform human societies. Religion and development research, in ... -
Potential of bamboo as an alternative crop and livelihood strategy to smallholder tobacco farmers in South Nyanza region, Kenya
(Maseno University, Kenya School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Maseno, KENYA, 2009)The presentation reviews successful crop diversification of 120 farm trial sites in Kenya, where bamboo seedlings were planted under the same growing conditions as tobacco crops in terms of soil, altitude, rainfall and ... -
Environmental quality and fish communities in selected catchments of Lake Victoria
(Bentham Open, 2011-09-09)Water quality and fish species are studied in selected catchments of Lake Victoria. The major aim of the study is to establish the relationship between the environmental quality and fish communities in the selected study ... -
Politics and the enforcement of the Uganda Forestry Policy 2001: lessons from South Busoga central Forest Reserve, Mayuge district, Eastern Uganda.
(Medwell Publishing, 2012)The competitiveness of multiparty political dispensation in the developing world has led well placed politicians to dish out open access natural resources in exchange for votes. This therefore has brewed conflict between ... -
Government regulatory system and compliance with Forestry Policy in South Busoga Forest Reserve, Mayuge district-Uganda.
(Medwell Publishing, 2012)Administrative innuendo exhibited in the Ugandan forestry docket had its genesis from de-legitimisation of the policies ostensibly, attributed to conflicts by stakeholders on natural resources, manifested in non-compliance ... -
Opportunities from Satellite Observation Systems in Climate Risk Mitigation: The Case of Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
(ijsr, 2012)One of the key findings in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is that millions of people globally will be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change. With over three quarters of Africa falling under arid and ... -
Politician and the enforcement of the Uganda Forestry Policy 2001: lessons from South Busoga Central Forest Reserve, Mayuge district, Eastern Uganda.
(Medwell Publishing, 2012)There has been a conundrum in apportioning blame on the petering out of forest resources in central forest reserves amongst the politicians; foresters and the local communities engulfing the forest reserves in the post ... -
Compliance and enforcement of environmental policies on natural resources in Uganda: perspectives from South Busoga Forest Reserve.
(Medwell Publishing, 2012)see more details inclusively. The natural resources have been dished out as handouts by politicians or through political influence hence their petering out, hither to government forest reserves inclusively. A study of 344 ... -
Uganda national forestry authority and enforcement of Forestry Policy 2001: a case of South Busoga Forest Reserve, Mayuge district, Eastern Uganda.
(Medwell Publishing, 2012)Conflict of interest between the legislative and executive arms of government trickle down to institutions aligned to the executive, especially environmental bodies in developing countries developing countries Subject ... -
Beach Community-Designed System To Ameliorate Water Quality Deterioration in Catchments of Lake Victoria
(Bentham Open, 2012-07-13)Water quality and socio-economic status of beach communities was studied in the Thruston Bay catchments of Lake Victoria. The major aim of the study was to establish the relation between water quality and socio-economic ... -
Local communities and collaborative forest management in West Bugwe Forest Reserve, Eastern Uganda.
(Medwell Publishing, 2013)Bureaucratic controls over natural resources when tightened world over Uganda inclusive have often led to heightened conflicts amongst apparent stakeholders. This has furthered assault on the ecosystem rather than conservation ... -
Effects of land use types on the levels of microbial contamination based on total coliform and Escherischia coli count on the Mara River, East Africa
(Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation, 2013)The effects of land use types on levels of microbial contamination based on total coliforms and E. coli (faecal coliform) levels was investigated in the Mara River system, Kenya and Tanzania. Water samples were taken from ... -
Status of the Sondu-Miriu River fish species diversity and fisheries: Sondu-Miriu Hydro-Power Project (SMHPP) operations
(Academic Journals, 2013-08-31)The Sondu-Miriu Hydroelectric Power Project (SMHPP) is a run-of-the-river hydro-power project on the Sondu-Miriu River, Kenya. The part of the river studied: between the Sondu Bridge upstream, and Osodo Bay on L. Victoria, ... -
Influence of Artisanal fishing Gears on Physico-Chemical Parameters of Ferguson’s Gulf in Lake Turkana, Kenya
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publisher, 2015)The influence of gill net, purse seine and beach seine gears was assessed on the basis of water physicochemical parameters. The study considered a total of seven water quality parameters viz. Dissolved oxygen (DO), salinity, ... -
Gully Rehabilitation Trusts: Fighting soil erosion through community participation in western Kenya
(Pergamon, 2018-02-01)Soil erosion is one of many interlinked factors contributing to land degradation, which has been the focus of recent international agreements, including the Bonn Challenge and the Kigali Declaration on Forest Landscape ... -
Land Cover change and its socio-economic impact on the residents of the Mara River, Kenya
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2019-09-25)Anthropogenic activities are increasingly catalyzing natural climatic factors that drive land cover change at different spatial scales. Available land cover data of the Mara River basin however give a broader picture of ... -
Performance and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine Working on Biodiesel with Different Blends
(International Journal of IC Engines and Gas Turbines, 2017)Internal combustion engine plays important role in vehicles. These engines are operated by conventional fuels (diesel). Diesel is a one of the nonrenewable energy source for IC engines. Due to usage of diesel, pollutions ... -
Knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors of voluntary counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS among Wolkite university students in Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2017-05-30)Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV is essential and critical way for prevention, care and treatment of HIV. It allows early detection of illness, reducing transmission, morbidity and mortality from it. But youth ...
