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The role of communication, education and public awareness raising on community participation in forest management in Mufindi District, Tanzania

Mpokigwa, Manyisye Kibona (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2010)

A study was carried out to investigate the role of Communication, Education and Public Awareness raising (CEPA) on community participation in forest management in Mufindi District. The specific objectives were: To identify ...

Evaluation of the association of Tanzania tobacco traders’ reforestation programme: the case of Urambo District

Mangasini, Atanasi (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2007)

The study was conducted in Urambo District. The objectives of the study were as follows: to examine role played by primary farmer co-operatives in implementing the reforestation programme; to determine the planting rate ...

Wetland resource utilization and its impact on biodiversity of the Kilombero Valley Floodplains Ramsar Site, Tanzania

Chuwa, Joseph Joachim (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2010)

Kilombero Valley Floodplain displays a diversity of quality habitats with unique levels of biodiversity of international importance. Despite the increasing utilization pressure of this ecosystem no effective protection ...

Impacts of participatory forest management on forest conditions and livelihoods in Tanzania: a case study of Monduli catchment forest reserve

Bwoyo, Deusdedit Kamalamo (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2008)

Wide acceptance of sustainable development as a concept and as the goal of forest management has shifted policies from a traditional to people oriented approach. Tanzania mainland is exercising Participatory Forest ...

Forest income and rural livelihoods under SULEDO community based forest management in Kiteto District

Mwakasendo, Clemence Andagile (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2009)

How forest income in Community Based Forest Management (CBFM), enters into peoples’ livelihood diversification strategies, income distributional profile, degree of dependency and variations due to contextual factors is ...

Power struggles in Suledo village land forest reserve, Kiteto district, Tanzania

Magessa, Kajenje (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2011)

SULEDO Village Land Forest Reserve is important in supporting livelihoods of the adjacent local communities as well as for the economic development of the country at large. However, there is inadequate information on ...

The role of traditional knowledge and local institutions in the conservation of micro-catchment forests among the Sonjo agro-pastoralists, Ngorongoro district, Tanzania

Rurai, Masegeri Tumbuya (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2007)

Early attempts to solve environmental problems without local people’s knowledge and institutions involvement have achieved very little success. Consequently the rate of natural resources degradation particularly in ...

Influence of forestland tenure regimes on forest condition and community livelihoods in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania

Kitula, Mariam Mohamed (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2011)

Uluguru Mountains are dominated by different forestland tenure regimes, but is not known which one has more positive influence on forest condition and community livelihoods. This study was conducted with the objective ...

Socio-economic factors influencing land use and vegetation cover changes in and around Kagoma Forest Reserve Kagera region, Tanzania

Nzunda, Nanjiva Geofrey (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2011)

The Miombo woodland ecosystem has been and continues to face conservation threats. Understanding of changes happening in such ecosystem overtime is important for establishing management baseline data. This study assessed ...

Role of agroforestry products in household income and poverty reduction in semi-arid areas of Misungwi district, Mwanza, Tanzania

Maduka, Stephen Manoni (Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), 2007)

Agroforestry practice like any other land use practice has been reported to produce different benefits and products, which enhance household incomes and reduce poverty. This study was conducted in order to examine the ...

Resource rent capture in lake victoria fisheries

Kulindwa, Kassim (Economic Research Bureau of the University of Dar es Salaam, 2006-06)

Fisheries activities in Lake Victoria have grown tremendously in the 1990s largely due to the export of Nile perch (NP) to mainly European markets. Exploitation of NP has been intensive to the extent of threatening the ...

Some remarks on the individual contribution to climate change

Oberheitmann, Andreas (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-04-07)

Climate change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st Century. As greenhouse gas concentration of the atmosphere has reached the 400ppm threshold of a 2°C global warming on 9 May 2013 and irreversible tipping ...

Analysis of structure and diversity of the Kilengwe forest in the Morogoro region, Tanzania

Kacholi, David Sylvester (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-01-23)

This study investigates the structure, species composition, and diversity of a section of the Kilengwe Forest in Tanzania. In order to accomplish the proposed objectives, 18 plots of 20m× 20mwere randomly established in ...

Human influences on tree diversity and composition of a coastal forest ecosystem: The case of Ngumburuni forest reserve, Rufiji, Tanzania

Kimaro, J.; Lulandala, L. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)

This paper reports on the findings of an ecological survey conducted in Ngumburuni Forest Reserve, a biodiversity rich forest reserve within the coastal forests of Tanzania. The main goal of this study was to determine ...

Christocentric ecotheology and climate change

Ituma, E. A. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-10)

Christocentric ecotheology is a concept that examines ecological phenomena from Christian theological perspective. This research was therefore required to examine the theological implications of climate change with the aim ...

Research on Climate Change and Its Impacts Needs Freedom of Research

Mölders, N. (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2013-12)

Climate change captured my interest as a teenager when, at the dining table, my dad talked about potential anthropogenic climate changes. He brought up subjects such as “climate could change if the Siberian Rivers were to ...

Public Understanding of Climate Change as a Social Dilemma

Capstick, S. B. (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2013-08)

Climate change is often referred to as one of the most complicated challenges facing humanity, characterised in various literatures as a social dilemma operating at multiple scales (individual, national, international). ...

Supply Chain Management in View of Climate Change: An Overview of Possible Impacts and the Road Ahead

Dasaklis, T. K.; Pappis, C. P. (Omnia Science, 2013-09)

Purpose: The paper aims to provide a general overview of the impacts of climate change upon supply chains and to analyze the implications of climate change for supply chain management in terms of strategic and operational ...

Teaching Global Climate Change

McGowan, A. H. (2013-01)

Although there is strong consensus among scientists that global climate change is real and dangerous, and there is increasing belief of this among the general public, there still remains a significant gap between scientific ...

Vulnerability of People’s Livelihoods to Water Resources Availability in Semi Arid Areas of Tanzania

Mwakalila, S. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2011-09)

In semi-arid areas of Tanzania vulnerability context is depicted as the starting component for policy process analysis through the sustainable livelihood approach. Giving vulnerability a high prominence in this analysis ...

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