Download or read book Influence of Climate Change and Human induced Environmental Degradation on Lake Victoria written by Julius B. Lejju and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Victoria basin, an international water body that offers the riparian communities a large number of important benefits, has in the last four decades experienced drastic environmental changes, with a significant drop in its water level in the more recent years. The changes in water level have significantly affected the energy supply in the region and threatened the lives of the riparian population engaged, directly and indirectly, in subsistence and commercial fishing, and the agricultural and industrial sectors. The reduction in lake levels has attracted conflicting speculation. Environmentalists attribute it to reduced rainfall experienced in the East African region, while hydrologists blame it on environmental degradation and excessive water release through the operations of the Kiira-Nalubale hydroelectric power dams at Jinja. This research provides evidence of long-term environment changes in Lake Victoria and a contribution to the understanding of the past environmental conditions in the lake basin. It provides the history of human environment interactions, including the possible cause for the dynamics of the lake levels, giving possible options that can help to remedy and/or mitigate the environmental degradation in the region.

Download or read book Lake Victoria Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Victoria Monitored from Space written by Joseph Awange and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges. Proper understanding of the lake and changes in its physical dynamics (e.g., water level, shorelines and areal dynamics) resulting from the impacts of climate variation and climate change as well as anthropogenic (e.g., hydropower and irrigation) is important for its management as well as for strategic development before, during and after climate extremes (e.g., floods and droughts) in order to inform policy formulations, planning and mitigation measures. Owing to its sheer size, and lack of research resources commitment by regional governments that hamper its observations, however, it is a daunting task to undertake studies on Lake Victoria relying solely on in-situ “boots on the ground” measurements, which are sparse, missing in most cases, inconsistent or restricted by governmental red tapes. To unlock the potentials of Lake Victoria, this book argues for the removal of obsolete Nile treaties signed between Britain, Egypt and Sudan in the 1920s and 1950s, which prohibits its utilization by the upstream countries. The book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers. In a unique cross-disciplinary approach, the Book articulates the various climatic impacts and explanations from natural and anthropogenic origins, which affected Lake Victoria and its vicinity, including the drastic increase and depletion of water level in the Lake and dams, floods and droughts, water quality/security, crop health, food security, and economic implications. With no exception as in his many publications, Joseph L. Awange used data analysis methodologies including filtering, adjustment theory, and robust statistics, to quantify the hydrologic and other parameters, and their estimated uncertainties. The Book is recommended for readers from a diverse disciplines, including physical and social sciences, policy, law, engineering, and disaster management. Professor C.K. Shum, Ohio State University.

Download or read book Environmental Change and Response in East African Lakes written by J.T. Lehman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book was born at the June 1996 meeting of the IDEAL Steering Committee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We had just completed a successful and stimulating special symposium during the annual meeting of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, and enthusiasm was running high for the production of a volume that could assemble in one place the scientific findings that were starting to emerge from East Africa. IDEAL, an International Decade for the East African Lakes, had ended one round of field investigations, many of which had been centered on Lake Victoria. As the climatologists, geologists, paleolimnologists, and biologists displayed their results and debated interpretations, it appeared that some paradigms were shifting, and that new explanations of climate history and modem processes were taking shape. The Steering Committee endorsed the production of a volume that would draw together the different research results that were emerging and which would be representative of the scope of science issues that exist within IDEAL. This book follows in the spirit of The Limnology, Climatology, and Paleoclimatology of the East African Lakes, published in 1996, but has a somewhat different purpose. The previous publication also included original science results, but it was conceived to review the state of knowledge, identify critical problems, and point to new paths of inquiry. It accompanied the development of our first Science and Implementation Plan for the East African Lakes.

Download or read book Vulnerability Assessment to Climate Change in Lake Victoria Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Hydrodynamics and Pollution Transport Under Climate Change written by Seema Paul and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Victoria written by Joseph L. Awange and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a pioneering and unique work on Lake Victoria. It is the world’s second largest fresh-water lake and supports the livelihood of more than 30 million people. Surprisingly, there has been no comprehensive book addressing its problems and potentials. Ecology, environmental pollution and resource management are some of the issues addressed by this comprehensive insight into the limitations, challenges and opportunities facing Lake Victoria.

Download or read book Lake Victoria Basin Environment Outlook written by and published by United Nations Environment Programme. This book was released on 2006 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water balance of Lake Victoria written by E L. Tate and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Climate Adaptation in the WASH Sector of East Africa s Lake Victoria Basin written by Hannah Marcus and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is having increasing impacts on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) worldwide, rendering health-friendly behaviours less achievable in low-resource settings, disrupting WASH service provision, and reversing global progress on improving WASH infrastructure and controlling waterborne diseases. Much of these impacts are mediated through climate-driven changes in rainfall, which lead to both intensified and lengthier droughts, alongside heavier bouts of rain, and more frequent storms and extreme weather events. The impacts of both extreme and minimal rainfall on water quality and access and on sanitation and hygiene maintenance are myriad and have gained increased attention owing to a growing body of literature presenting important social, health, and environmental consequences. In recent years, a rising number of actors have pointed to the need for climate adaptation to be mainstreamed into the WASH sector, to ensure that WASH services, technologies, practices, and infrastructures are maximally resilient to the impending impacts of climate-driven rainfall changes. In the Lake Victoria Basin (LVB), which encompasses parts of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi, both WASH and, more recently, climate change have been placed relatively high on the agenda of development bodies. A history of WASH progress in this region has notably reduced waterborne disease incidence, but ongoing threats still produce significant morbidity and mortality burdens. Meanwhile, the region is highly vulnerable to climate change due to a combination of geographic, hydrological, and socioeconomic factors. Not surprisingly, East African governments have had to devote increased attention to climate adaptation goal-setting, as the impacts of climate change on the region become more pressing and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change pushes for regular submission of National Adaptation Plans and National Adaptation Programmes of Action. Given the importance of both climate adaptation and WASH in the LVB context, and the growing impetus for climate-WASH integration, this study sought to assess the progress thus far achieved in integrating WASH and climate adaptation agendas in the LVB, and outstanding barriers to progress. A secondary objective was to better understand how lakeside communities are adapting their own WASH behaviours and practices in response to the new threats posed by climate change-driven changes in rainfall, so that any positive adaptations could be documented, and associated innovations later tapped in regional climate adaptation planning efforts. Through a collaboration with a community-based organization in Western Kenya named Kar Geno- Center for Hope, a quantitative WASH practice survey was conducted, followed by 17 qualitative interviews and 17 focus groups with community members residing in the lakeside village of Mabinju, located in Siaya County. Collaborations were additionally forged with a network of organizations working on WASH and/or climate adaptation in the wider LVB region, from which knowledgeable stakeholders were interviewed. Interviews and focus groups, which were conducted in Luo but translated into English, were recorded and transcribed, and a qualitative thematic content analysis was conducted on all transcripts. This involved inductive coding using Dedoose qualitative data analysis software and a grounded theory analysis framework. The results of the study affirmed the cross-cutting impacts that climate change is having on WASH in the region, at both community and governance levels, and illuminated how it has interacted with other environmental threats to accelerate longstanding trends of environmental degradation and socioeconomic vulnerability. The responses of community members in Mabinju to these impacts were found to be wide in scope, and included both positive and maladaptive behaviour changes. On an institutional level, sectoral siloes and a lack of interdisciplinary collaboration, among other factors related to funding and international priorities, were found to restrain full climate-WASH integration in the region, despite evidence of early progress. Attention paid to sanitation was also found to be notably lacking, paralleling a global trend of disproportionate focus on water within the broader climate adaptation agenda. These findings hold implications for regional climate adaptation planning efforts, and offer global lessons on how governance structures can be made more conducive to climate-WASH integration and on how community knowledge, insights, and innovation potential can be better tapped in the development of novel climate resiliency promoting measures in the WASH sector.

Download or read book The Hydrology of the Nile written by John V. Sutcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its scope can be seen from the list of contents overleaf.

Download or read book Lake Victoria Fisheries Resources written by Yunus D. Mgaya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesises the historical trends of the lake fisheries, the lake ecology, biology and biodiversity, socio-economics, stock assessment, aquaculture, fish quality assurance, environmental quality and management of the fisheries resources. The evolution of fisheries in Lake Victoria has undergone dramatic changes over the last few decades, leading to both ecological and socio-economic consequences. The lake has changed from one dominated by haplochromines in the 1950s, to one currently dominated by Nile perch, ‘dagaa’ (Rastrineobola argentea) and Nile tilapia. These changes have mainly been driven by the introduction of the predatory Nile perch in the lake, eutrophication due to increased human activities in the catchment, increased human population growth, overfishing and changes in the global climate system. This work should therefore be a particularly useful reference to fisheries scientists and managers, potential investors, students and other professionals who may be interested in the Lake Victoria fisheries.

Download or read book Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters written by Charles R. Goldman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effects of global warming on the physical, chemical, ecological structure and function and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems are not well understood and there are many opinions on how to adapt aquatic environments to global warming in order to minimize the negative effects of climate change. Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters presents a synthesis of the latest research on a whole range of inland water habitats – lakes, running water, wetlands – and offers novel and timely suggestions for future research, monitoring and adaptation strategies. A global approach, offered in this book, encompasses systems from the arctic to the Antarctic, including warm-water systems in the tropics and subtropics and presents a unique and useful source for all those looking for contemporary case studies and presentation of the latest research findings and discussion of mitigation and adaptation throughout the world. Edited by three of the leading limnologists in the field this book represents the latest developments with a focus not only on the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems but also offers a framework and suggestions for future management strategies and how these can be implemented in the future. Limnologists, Climate change biologists, fresh water ecologists, palaeoclimatologists and students taking relevant courses within the earth and environmental sciences will find this book invaluable. The book will also be of interest to planners, catchment managers and engineers looking for solutions to broader environmental problems but who need to consider freshwater ecology.

Download or read book The State of Climate Change Responses and Mitigation in the Lake Victoria Basin Republic of Kenya written by Stephen Obiero Anyango and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hot Hungry Planet written by Lisa Palmer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.N. predicts the Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years, documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap.

Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation Policy Networks in the Lake Victoria Region East Africa written by Matthew Louis Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I analyze regional environmental governance as a complex adaptive process, in which patterns of interactions among individual actors influence the performance of collaborative policy forums, which in turn shape environmental outcomes. One source of complexity is the diversity of actors, including governmental bodies, research centers, civil society organizations, and international non-governmental organizations, among others, involved in these forums, which may include task forces, steering committees, or other settings in which actors collectively engage in environmental policy decision-making. Complexity also relates to forums' overlapping mandates, jurisdictions, and participants. For environmental governance scholars, this complexity defies efforts to study governance outcomes by focusing on the dynamics that characterize single policy forums. Instead, understanding the structure and function of these governance systems requires an appreciation of multiple layers of interactions among actors that are also participating across one or more policy forums. From a complex adaptive systems perspective, these localized interactions generate the "macro-level" policy outputs and governance outcomes that are of greatest interest to policy actors themselves and other stakeholders. The empirical setting for this research is climate change adaptation governance in the Lake Victoria region, East Africa, which features numerous and diverse coordination and cooperation challenges. I analyze the conditions under which actors collaborate to address these challenges and find that collaboration is more likely when actors jointly participate in policy forums, but that the likelihood of collaboration decreases in forums at higher levels. I also investigate factors associated with the propensity of actors to participate in adaptation policy forums above or below their respective levels and demonstrate that actors tend to avoid such "cross-level" linkages. However, I also show how certain patterns of interactions exert a strong effect on actors' tendencies to engage in cross-level linkages. Such structural patterns also predict actors' assessments of the performance of the policy forums in which they participate. Knowledge of the drivers and consequences of interactions among actors and forums may empower adaptation policy-makers and other stakeholders to more effectively navigate complex governance systems while contributing to societal goals.

Download or read book The Dynamics of Shoreline Wetlands and Sediments of Northern Lake Victoria written by Nicholas Azza and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cum laude graduation (with distinction).