Browsing Department of Environmental Science by Title
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Analysis of Factors Influencing the Changes in the use of Transport Modes in Kisumu, Kenya.
(Research gate, 2019)Previous research in the city of Kisumu looked at the policies that were put in place by the government causing the changes in transport mode choice. However, the research did not look at the sociodemographic, built ... -
Assessment of Correlates of Stigma in Mental Health Nursing Practice Among Nursing Students in Two Universities in Nairobi-Kenya
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Assessment of the Effect of Antropogenic Activities on Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation in Matayos Division of Busia County, Kenya
(East African Scholars Publisher, Kenya, 2019): Anthropogenic activities are fundamentally and to a significant extent irreversibly changing the diversity of life on Earth. Virtually all of the Earth‟s ecosystems have now been dramatically altered through human ... -
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 ... -
Beach Community-Designed System To Ameliorate Water Quality Deterioration in Catchments of Lake Victoria
(BENTHAM Open, 2012)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 ... -
Biodiversity assessment by remote sensing
(2003-11-10)Measuring the complexity of species in (semi) natural environments is time consuming and expensive. In this paper we summarise remote sensing techniques developed for mapping and monitoring biodiversity of herbivores ... -
Body size and abundance relationship: an index of diversity for herbivores
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001-11-01)It is evident to any biologist that small-bodied species within a given higher taxon (order, class, phylum, etc.) tend to be represented by more individuals. Hence small-bodied species are generally more abundant than ... -
Cities coping with COVID-19 Comparative perspectives
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Compliance and enforcement of environmental policies on natural resources in Uganda: perspectives from South Busoga Forest Reserve.
(Medwell Publishing, 2012)ee 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 ... -
Cost-effective banana (musa paradisiaca) waste management and the welfare of banana farmers in Kakamega county Kenya
(EAJSTI, 2021)Horticultural waste management is global war that must be won particularly in Kenya. Utilisation of banana waste can mitigate the dwindling welfare of banana farmers in Kakamega County. Unlike India’s preferred processing ... -
Crop Diversification, a Potential Strategy to Building Resilience through Reduction of Costs of Farming among the Small holder Farmers
(East African Scholars, 2019)Globally, due to rapid population growth and continual urban sprawl, average arable land per household is shrinking hence crop diversification is gaining increased importance in the quest for solutions to the perennial ... -
Determinants of aboveground carbon offset additionality in plantation forests in a moist tropical forest in western Kenya
(Elsevier, 2016-04-01)Few studies have attempted to identify factors that contribute to aboveground carbon offset additionality in forest restoration planting in the tropics. Moreover, those that have compared aboveground carbon offset potential ... -
Determinants of Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea batatas L) Profitability in Rachuonyo South District, Kenya
(ACR, 2014-04-04)Sweet potato is a high yielding crop with a higher food value than many staple food crops. Its production in Kenya is concentrated in Rachuonyo South district. To promote growth of the sweet potato subsector and to reduce ... -
Determinants of climate change awareness level in upper Nyakach Division, Kisumu County, Kenya
(SpringerPlus, 2016)Improving the understanding of climate change awareness is one of the top priorities in climate change research. While the African continent is among the regions with the highest vulnerability to climate change, research ... -
Does Universities’ Research Output Aligned to National Development Goals Impact Economic Productivity? Evidence from Kenya
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Few studies on developing countries have investigated the alignment of research output to a country’s development agenda and economic productivity. Using evidence from Kenya, this study sought to empirically determine ... -
Effect of anthropogenic activities on physico-chemical parameters and benthic macroinvertebrates of Mara river tributaries, Kenya
(2014)The impact of anthropogenic activities within Bomet and Mulot towns on water quality of Amala and Nyangores tributaries of Mara River, Kenya was assessed using a combination of solid waste, physico-chemical parameters ... -
Effect of land use on soil quality in Rivers Nyando and Yala catchments of Lake Victoria Basin, Western Kenya
(Agricultural Science Research Journal, 2020)Soil, as a major subsystem of land, is rapidly changing with time as a result of changes in its’ environment or management. Periodic soil quality assessment is thus vital in evaluating agro-ecosystem sustainability, soil ... -
The Effect of Rainfall Variability on Maize and Coffee Farming Activities between 1990 – 2014 in Machakos Sub County, Kenya
(International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research, 2019)Varying climatic conditions with increased uncertainty mainly in rainfall and temperature are salient features in marginal areas globally, adversely affecting farming activities particularly in Africa. Kenya experiences ...