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Socio-Spatial Factors Influencing the Location of Economic Enterprises in Obunga Informal Settlement, Kisumu City
(JOOUST, 2020)The location of economic enterprises forms an essential part of planning as they transform settlements into sustainable nodes of growth and development. However, lack of or inefficient enforcement of planning regulations ... -
Integrated Urban and Per-Urban Agriculture into Urban Planning as a Strategy to Enhance Food Security in Bondo Town
(JOOUST, 2014)Due to rapid growth in populations in urban areas, the food requirements of urban centres have enormously increased in recent years. Agriculture and food planners have to think how best to meet these food requirements ... -
Implementation of Water Sector Reforms and Socio-Economic Development Programmes in arid and Semi Arid Lands: A Case of Mandera County, Kenya
(JOOUST, 2016-05)Water sector reform was supposed to enhance water provision in all Counties of Kenya. However the implementation process has not been effective. It is in this regard that the study assessed the implementation of water ... -
Factors Affecting Commercial Motorcycle Transport Safety and its Socio-Economic Impact on Riders Within the Market Places in Siaya County
(JOOUST, 2017-05)Motorcycle transport is one of the new modes of public road transport currently used in Kenya. However, as commercial motorcycle transport gains acceptance due to various reasons, its safety is becoming a serious problem ... -
Integrated Management of Water Hyacinth as Alternative Renewable Energy Through Community Involvement along the Shores of Lake Victoria Kenya
(JOOUST, 2015)All over the world water hyacinth has remained a serious challenge wherever it has proliferated. The objectives of the study were to: compare calorific value of water hyacinth dry matter with those of local wood fuels; ... -
Capacity Buildings Strategy to Transform Ecotourism: Perception of Secondary School Youths in Bondo
(JOOUST, 2013)Ecotourism supports environmental conservation as well as generating economic opportunities. It additionally emphasizes benefits to the local community and suggests that the involvement of the residents is important for ... -
Factors Affecting the Implementation of Community Afforestation Initiative Projects in Kenya: A Case of Kenya Forest Service
(JOOUST, 2016)Afforestation projects are crucial for maintaining and improving the productivity of agricultural lands as well as sustaining the ecological balance of water catchment areas. The aim of the study was to assess factors ... -
Factors Influencing Sorghum Production by Smallholder Farmers in Waia Division, Makueni County, Kenya
(JOOUST, 2015-10)Smallholder farmers in arid and semi arid lands in Kenya are frequently affected by drought and famine which lead to starvation and malnutrition especially of children, women, the aged and disabled. Maize being the most ... -
Environmental Effects of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Kisii Town, Kenya
(JOOUST, 2022)The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of urban and peri-urban agriculture on the environment in Kisii, Kenya. This is due to fact that the concept of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA) is beginning ... -
An assessment of mobility limitations of the physically disabled in Nairobi: a case study of trip to CBD
(2006)Accessibility however necessary and desirable to all; physical abilities, socioeconomic characteristics and external environment may make it difficult for the disabled to overcome physical separations of opportunity areas ... -
Wetland Conversion to large-scale agricultural production; implications on the livelihoods of rural communities, Yala Swamp, Lake Victoria basin, Kenya.
(Diva enterprises pvt. ltd., 2008)Wetlands in most parts of the world are under threat of over-exploitation, loss and/or degradation partly due to agriculture and urban land uses. Yala swamp, the largest fresh water wetland in Kenya measuring about 17,500 ... -
Tree planting trend and on-farm management practices for carbon sequestration in Karemo division in Siaya County: Kenya
(2016-05)Tree planting and on-farm management practices has been taking place annually in Karemo Division for several years, however, density, and the amount of carbon that trees can significantly sequesters and has not been ... -
Planning of informal settlements for sustainable urban housing: a case of Langas estate in Eldoret town, Kenya
(JOOUST School of Spatial Planning and Natural Resource Management, 2016-05)Planning is inevitable if provision of sustainable housing is to be achieved. However, the Eldoret town housing development as guided by the Physical Planning Act Cap 286 and other planning initiatives like the National ... -
Eco-tourism as a community strategy to fight HIV/AIDS on the Islands and Beaches in Usigu division, Siaya County, Kenya
(JOOUST School of Spatial Planning and Natural Resource Management, 2016-05)In Kenya ecotourism is seen as having the potential of driving the economy for locally directed developments based on utilization of the ecosystem and cultural resources. The study explores how ecotourism products can be ...
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