School of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies: Recent submissions
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Causal Factors Responsible for Changes in the Attributes of Urban Green Spaces in Nairobi City County, Kenya
(2024-07-26)Urban green spaces are an important part of public open spaces and a common service provided by a city, town, or municipal council. In Nairobi City County, green spaces have been increasingly threatened by overcrowding, ... -
Temporal changes in Rainfall and Temperature influence on Solid Waste Generation in Bungoma County Urban Centres, Kenya
(2024-07-28)Globally, temperature and rainfall play an integral role in the management of solid waste in urban areas. This is because many countries especially, the developing countries conventionally rely on both variables in the ... -
Assessment of Solid waste generation and composition in Bungoma County Urban Centres for appropriate waste management approaches
(2024-08-02)The quantity and characteristics of urban solid waste are a result of the interconnectedness of diverse factors at play including social, economic, and environmental factors. These directly influence the choice of ... -
Attributes of Urban Greenspaces and their Influence on Visitors’ Preferences in Nairobi City County, Kenya
(Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1, 2024-07-07)Urban green spaces refer to land covered with vegetation such as forests, street trees, parks, gardens, and water bodies in an urban setup. In this study, we sought to investigate the attributes of urban green spaces in ... -
Macroinvertebrate metrics and lipid profiles as potential indicators of land use influence in a high altitude tropical highland stream (Sagana River Basin, Kenya)
(Elsevier, 2024)Land use practices near river ecotones result in numerous inputs of terrestrial materials into the river ecosystem. While macroinvertebrates population metrics is widely used in monitoring water quality changes, including ... -
Fishing power of conventionally harvested wetland baitworms compared to black soldier fly larvae as alternative baits in tropical artisanal hook fishery
(2018)Extensive and intensive, harvesting of earthworms and polychaetes from wetland substrate, for artisanal hook fishery, affect structural and functional integrity of these critical habitats. Cultured Black Soldier Fly larvae ... -
Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Larvae Meal as a Sustainable Protein Source for Fish Feed Production in Kenya
(SPRINGER, 2023)Aquaculture has been ranked as one of the fastest-growing food sub-sectors, providing quality protein to better the livelihoods of rural communities alongside curbing malnutrition and food security globally. Nonetheless, ... -
Spawning interactions between hatchery-reared and wild naturalized rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Walbaum, 1792) in high-altitude tropical streams, Kenya
(Wiley, 2022-07)Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is among the most widely translocated fish species in the world. The current study evaluated the spawning interactions between naturalized and wild rainbow trout from two high-altitude ... -
Analysis of Short-Term Drought Episodes Using Sentinel-3 SLSTR Data under a Semi-Arid Climate in Lower Eastern Kenya.
(2023-06)This study uses Sentinel-3 SLSTR data to analyze short-term drought events between 2019 and 2021. It investigates the crucial role of vegetation cover, land surface temperature, and water vapor amount associated with ... -
Hourly reference evapotranspiration analysis using synoptic meteorological measurements and ERA5 reanalysis data from Kenyan Counties
(2023-09)Kenya has had five failed rain seasons for the last three years. In this context, there was a mass recurrent crop failure, death of livestock and wildlife, persistent water scarcity, and droughts of varying intensities. ... -
Anthropogenic activities affect forest structure and arthropod abundance in a Kenyan biodiversity hotspot
(2023-07)Land-use change remains the main threat to tropical forests and their dependent fauna and flora, and degradation of existing forest remnants will further accelerate species loss. Forest degradation may result directly from ... -
Natural Radioactivity and radiological Hazard analysis of Construction stones from various queries in Machakos County Kenya. Radiation Protection Dosimetry.
(2023-07)The radioactivity levels of rocks sampled from the quarries of Kyasioni, Mavoloni and Kathaana located in the lower Eastern County of Machakos in Kenya were determined. Forty-two samples were collected using stratified ... -
Fine‐scale variation in soil and topography influences herbaceous vegetation and the distribution of large mammalian herbivores
(Wiley, 2023-04)Current understanding of the distribution of vegetation and large mammalian herbivores (LMH) is based on a combination of biogeographic studies and highly controlled field experiments, but a more complete understanding ... -
5. Absentee owners and overlapping home ranges in a territorial species
(2021-01-07)Abstract Understanding animals’ use of space can shed valuable light on multiple other aspects of behavioral ecology, including social organization, dispersal, and foraging efficiency. Home ranges, territories, core areas, ... -
Globalization and Biodiversity Conservation Problems: Polycentric REDD+ Solutions
(MDPI, 2019-02-19)Noise barriers are the most widespread solution to mitigate noise produced by the continuous growth of vehicular traffic, thus reducing the large number of people exposed to it and avoiding unpleasant effects on health. ... -
Faecal Bacterial and Parasitic Contamination of Drinking Water in Eldoret Municipality, Kenya
(2012)Faecal contamination of water can introduce a variety of pathogens into water ways, including bacteria, viruses, protozoans and parasitic worms. Poor excreta disposal is often associated with lack of adequate water supplies, ... -
Radiometric survey of the Tyaa river sand mine in Kitui, Kenya
(2020-07-02)Gamma spectroscopic analyses of sand and rock samples from Tyaa River report an average activity concentration of 33 ± 1, 55 ± 2.8 and 812 ± 40.46 Bqkg-1 for 226Ra, 232Th and 40K, respectively in the sand. A similar analysis ... -
Environmental Determinants of Choice of Sustainability Strategies Adopted by Group Ranches in Samburu County, Kenya
(2017)The group ranch system is one of the best land ownership and livestock production strategies Page | 153 in the dry lands of the world where the potential for rain-fed agriculture is limited. This has resulted in ... -
290IMPACTS OF COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES: THE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPING PAYMENT SCHEMES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
(VDM Dr Muller Gmbh and co, 2011-01)Natural resources have continued to be degraded largely because of lack of well-defined property rights, population pressure, high levels of poverty and the lack of proper understanding of deleterious impacts of human ... -
Financing provision of environmental services in Mt. Elgon region for the protection of watersheds
(VDM Dr Muller Gmbh and co, 2011-01)This study examined direct payments for environmental services (PES) as a program for supporting the conservation of forest resources and services where environmental conservation is financed on the basis ...
