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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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...