TaCCIRe: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • Risks, livelihoods and vulnerability to flooding in Kyela District, South-western Tanzania 
    Mun'ong'o, Claude G.; Yanda, Pius Z. (Economic Research Bureau of the University of Dar es Salaam, 2006-06)
    This study aimed at establishing how local livelihoods had changed due to flooding in Kyela District, Tanzania. Both primary and secondary socioeconomic data were gathered using a household questionnaire and qualitative ...
  • The impact of rural energy use on the environment during the economic reforms period (1981-1992): Some evidence from Tanzania 
    Kulindwa, K.; Shechambo, F. (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Dar es Salaam, 1995)
    The article briefly presents the energy situation in Tanzania, discusses the relationship between structural adjustment programmes and emerge use problems. It looks at the objectives of these SAP programmes to see the ...
  • Adoption of soil conservation technologies and crop productivity in West Usambara Highlands, Tanzania 
    Chingonikaya, Emanuel E.; Mzingula, Emmanuel P. (Tengeru Institute of Community Development (TICD), 2014-06)
    Soil erosion has continued to be an alarming problem in the West Usambara highlands, Tanzania. This paper established the level of adoption of Soil Conservation Technologies and crop productivity in the West Usambara ...
  • Community perception towards equity in Community Based Forest Management (CBFM): A case of Duru-Haitemba forest reserve in Tanzania 
    Bunduki, Anatory B. (Tengeru Institute of Community Development (TICD), 2014-06)
    Community Based Forest Management (CBFM), among types of Participatory Forest Management (PFM), plays a great role in conserving forest resources as most of governments in the world lack proper resources management. ...
  • REDD+ on the ground: A case book of subnational initiatives across the globe 
    Sills, Erin O.; Atmadja, Stibniati S.; de Sassi, Claudio; Duchelle, Amy E.; Kweka, Demetrius L.; Resosudarmo, Ida Aju Pradnja; Sunderlin, William D. (The Center for International Forestry Research, 2014)
    As one of the leading near-term options for global climate change mitigation, REDD+ has been piloted in over 300 subnational initiatives across the tropics. This book describes 23 of those initiatives in six countries: ...
  • Assessing the hydrological conditions of the Usangu wetlands in Tanzania 
    Mwakalila, Shadrack (Scientific Research Publishing, 2011-12)
    Although wetlands make up less than 10% of Tanzania, their “critical, life support, ecosystem services” sus- tain over 95% of lives, of wildlife and of livestock. They provide security as sources of food, water, energy, ...
  • Climate change and water resources for energy generation in Tanzania 
    Malley, Z. J .U. (2011-05)
    Tanzania is one of the low income countries, which heavily depends on hydro-power for electric energy supply to the national grid. Impacts of climate change patterns on water resources supply to dams for hydro-energy ...
  • 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 ...
  • Opportunity Costs of REDD+ to the Communities of Mufindi District, Iringa, Tanzania 
    Nuru, Faraji; Abdallah, Jumanne Moshi; Ngaga, Yonika Mathew (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-05-05)
    The study was done to assess the opportunity costs of REDD+ to the communities of Mufindi District which is located in the SouthernHighlands of Tanzania. The specific objectives were, to identify and assess the economic ...
  • Gender Consideration in Sustainable Land Management Project Activities on the Highlands of Kilimanjaro Region: Lessons and Future Outlook 
    Magigi, Wakuru; Sathiel, Allan (Open Journal of Soil Science, 2014-05)
    The paper contributes on understanding gender considerations into Sustainable Land Management (SLM) project activities on the Highlands of Kilimanjaro Region. Specifically, it documents gender profile and assesses the ...
  • Effects of the world’s oceans on global climate change 
    Navrotsky, Vadim V. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-05-27)
    The role of the World Ocean in Global Climate Change is considered from two points of view: 1) heat energy accumu- lation and distribution in the ocean and its discharge into the atmosphere as purely physical processes; ...
  • Analysis of tropospheric radio refractivity over Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam 
    Luhunga, Philbert M; Mutayoba, Edmund; Masoud, Hazla; Chang’a, Ladislaus; Aleksandar, Prodanor D (International Journal of Modern Physics and Application, 2014-08-10)
    meteorological parameters-is of fundamental importance in planning and advancing the understanding of radio wave propagation and wireless communication systems within the troposphere. The vertical profiles of radio ...
  • Water quality index assessment under climate change 
    El-Jabi, Nassir; Caissie, Daniel; Turkkan, Noyan (Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-04-19)
    Surface water quality may change in the future due to climatic variability as natural processes will most likely be modified by anthropogenic activities. As such, stream temperature is very likely to change as well which ...
  • Climate characteristics over southern highlands Tanzania 
    Mbululo, Yassin; Nyihirani, Fatuma (Scientific Research, 2012-11-02)
    This study was conducted to examine the climate characteristic of southern highland Tanzania (Latitude 6°S - 12°S and Longitude 29°E - 38°E). The study findings reveal that rainfall over the region is linked with SST over ...
  • Teaching global climate change 
    McGowan, Alan H. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013)
    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 ...
  • Global climate change: variants for solution 
    Maergoiz, Lev Sergeevich; Sidorova, Tatiana Yur’evna; Khlebopros, Rem Grigor’evich (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-08-30)
    Purpose of the article is a presentation of possible solutions to the problem of global warming. The first is based on the physical properties of the Earth and its atmospheres. Another way represents reduction of anthropogenous ...
  • Assessing vulnerability of food availability to climate change in Hai district, Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania 
    Lema, Anza A.; Munishi, Linus K.; Ndakidemi, Patrick A. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-08-03)
    Climate change has a large effect on agriculture sector and, consequently, on the food available for residents of Hai District and other regions of Tanzania. Based on four decades of climate data, this study assessed the ...
  • Economic impacts of climate change on secondary activities: a literature review 
    Kumar, Surender; Yalew, Amsalu W. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-05-08)
    The fast growing literature on economic impacts of climate change is inclined to assessing the impacts on agricultural production and productivity and on human health. The economic impacts of climate change however, go ...
  • SWAT and Wavelet analysis for understanding the climate change impact on hydrologic response 
    Koirala, Shesh Raj; Gentry, Randall W. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-02-21)
    Quantifying the hydrological response to an increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and climate change is important in a watershed scale particularly from the application point of view. The specific objectives ...

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