School of Environment & Earth Sciences: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Influence of Water Availability on Food Crop Production in Semi-Arid Areas in Kibwezi District, Makueni County, Kenya
(Arts Humanit, 2015)Ecosystems provide essential services like water regulation and other processes which sustain and fulfill human life by directly or indirectly supporting humans‟ survival and quality of life. However, there is insufficient ... -
THE DIMINISHING WEALTH: THE CASE OF NYAMASARIA WETLANDS IN KISUMU TOWN
(Egerton university press, 2007-04)Although household food security may not capture all dimensions of food such as availability, access and utilisation; inability of households to put enough and quality food on the table is a manifestation of bad food ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Interpersonal influences in the scale-up of male circumcision services in a traditionally non-circumcising community in rural western Kenya
(2011)Promoting male circumcision (MC) is now recognized as an additional, important strategy for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men, and plans are underway to scale-up this intervention especially ... -
Factors determining community participation in afforestation projects in River Nyando basin, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2010)Factors determining community participation in afforestation projects were investigated. Data was collected from 150 respondents who were selected from a sample population of 1,928 households using systematic random sampling ... -
Understanding the relationship between environmental energy availability and bird species richness in Kenya using remote sensing and ancillary data
(2008-12-05)The energy hypothesis predicts that, in regions of roughly equal area, energy flux per unit of area should be the prime determinant of species richness. In the case of plants, primary production represents realized energy ... -
Predicting Mammal Species Richness from Remotely Sensed Data at Different Spatial Scales
(2008-12-05)Spatial variability in species richness has been postulated to depend upon environmental factors such as climatic variability, Net primary productivity and habitat heterogeneity. The Advanced Very High Resolution ... -
Growth performance of bamboo in tobacco-growing regions in South Nyanza, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2008)The study was carried out on 120 field experimentation sites where 2420 bamboo cuttings were planted under the same natural tobacco growing conditions in five different zones (that is, zone A = hillside/steep sloping ... -
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 ...