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How did Kachok dumpsite in Kisumu City develop into a crisis?
(Springer Netherlands, 2018-08-24)
Municipal solid waste management is one of Kenya’s most pressing environmental problems evidenced by the many overflowing dumpsites with their associated environmental and health hazards. Their growth is precipitated by ...
Inclusive Waste Governance and Grassroots Innovations for Social, Environmental and Economic Change: Report On First Research Outcomes of the Project Recycling Networks & Waste Governance
(Wiego, 2018)
Participants of two research projects (Recycling Networks: Grassroots resilience tackling climate, environmental and poverty challenges (funded by the Swedish Research Council) and Mapping Waste Governance (funded by the ...
Comparative assessment of landslide susceptibility by logistic regression and first order second moment method: Case study of Bujumbura Peri-Urban Area, Burundi.
(Journal of Engineering Research and Application, 2018-08)
Several landslides incidents in the Bujumbura region are reported regularly by independent sources. However,
few studies on the causes in the region have been conducted and no record of susceptibility map at a regional
exists. ...
Calibration and validation of EPA SWMM for stormwater runoffmodelling in Nyabugogo catchment, Rwanda
(Journal of Sustainable Research in Engineering, 2018)
Rapid urbanization isknown to have several negative impacts towards hydrological cycle. Urban growth contributes to the increase of impervious area which increases stormwater runoff peak flows and volumes. Nyabugogo ...
Probabilistic landslide risk assessment: Case study of Bujumbura
(2018)
A spatial probabilistic landslide risk assessment and mapping
model has been applied in a data scare region. The probabilistic model is
based on a physical model based on Mohr coulomb failure criterion. A
Monte Carlo ...
The Effect of Climate Change on Loss of Lake Volume: Case of Sedimentation in Central Rift Valley Basin, Ethiopia
(2018-12-11)
Evaluating the impact of climate change on sediment yield has become one of the major
topics in climate research. The purpose of this study was to investigate sediment yield contribution to
lake volume change under ...
Kachok Dumpsite Characteristics and Its Future – A Third Kenyan City Perspective
(International Journal of Waste Resources, 2018-01)
47 Counties inclusive of Kisumu were created as regional administrative units by the Kenyan constitution 2010.
The County Government immediately redirected Solid Wastes from other county’s townships to be disposed at ...