Lake Victoria Basin Environment Outlook
Author :
Publisher : United Nations Environment Programme
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Environmental management
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : United Nations Environment Programme
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Environmental management
ISBN :
Author : Joseph L. Awange
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2006-08-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3540325751
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.
Author : Joseph Awange
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030605515
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.
Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781853838453
Integrating environment and development:1972-2002; State of the environment and policy retrospective: 1972-2002; Human vulnerability to environmental change; Outlook: 2002-32; Options for action.
Author : United Nations
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9280726919
This is the second comprehensive report on the state of Africa's environment, produced in collaboration with the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). This report highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, as well as its potential to achieve progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as an asset for the continent's development. It highlights the opportunities presented by the region's natural resource base to support the continent's development. It also underscores the concept of sustainable livelihoods, and the importance of the environmental initiatives in supporting them.
Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789280728361
The fourth report in the Global Environment Outlook series provides a comprehensive, scientifically credible, policy-relevant and up-to-date assessment of, and outlook for, the state of the global environment. Environment for development is the GEO-4 underlying theme and the report pays special attention to the role and impact of the environment on human well-being as well as to the use of environmental valuation as a tool for decision-making. GEO-4's 2007 publication date marks the half-way point for the Millennium Development Goals, The environment, as well as being the subject of MDG 7, is also a thread that runs through all the goals. Includes Errata.
Author : Richard Anyah
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN :
Keywords: Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa, Variablity, Coupled Modeling, Ensemble.
Author : Richard Abila
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category :
ISBN : 9783846525623
This Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) was conducted to provide information for strategic action and an investment program addressing key environmental issues, poverty alleviation and sustainable development in Lake Victoria Basin. The study was based on primary survey data and empirical secondary information analyzed using the Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) model and results validated by stakeholders at all levels. A number of transboundary major perceived problems and issues and their impacts are evaluated, focusing on root causes, specific sources, locations and sectors. They include; Decline in endemic and commercial fish stocks, threats to biodiversity, declines in aquatic environmental quality, climatic change and variability, degradation of catchments landscapes and habitats, invasive and introduced species, deteriorating infrastructure and amenities, decline in human health and conflicts in resource use. This TDA is distinct as the first and most comprehensive analysis of water-related issues on the Lake Victoria basin, which provides a benchmark for future monitoring of the health of the basin ecosystem.
Author : Peter Saundry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030299147
This will be the first textbook on the integration of food, energy and water systems (FEWS). In recent years, the world has seen a dramatic rise in interdisciplinary energy and environmental courses and degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In the US for instance, the number and variety of such programs has increased significantly over the past decade, Simultaneously, national and international initiatives that integrate food, energy and water systems have been launched. This textbook provides a substantive introduction to the food-energy-water nexus suitable for use in higher level undergraduate and graduate level courses and for scholars moving into the field of nexus studies without a strong background in all three areas and the many aspects of nexus studies.
Author : Joseph Awange
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540820765
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.