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Assessing opportunity costs of conservation: Ingredients for protected area management in the Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya
(2009)
The Kakamega Forest is the only remaining tropical rainforest fragment in Western Kenya and hosts large numbers of endemic animal and plant species. Protected areas were established decades ago in order to preserve the ...
The Use of Sociological Methods to Assess Land-use Change: A Case Study of Lambwe Valley, Kenya
(2003)
Land-use history, not readily available
for most places, remains the weakest link in nearly all
studies of historic vegetation change, in Africa as well
as other places in the world. Notwithstanding,
communities hold ...
Household Data Collection for Socio-Economic Research in Agriculture: Approaches and Challenges in Developing Countries
(2009)
In this article, household data collection procedures for socio-economic research in agriculture under
conditions prevalent in developing countries are described. Using relevant examples for Kenya, the sources and types
of ...
Ionoregulatory strategies and the role of urea in the Magadi tilapia (Alcolapia grahami)
(2002)
The unique ureotelic tilapia Alcolapia grahami lives in the highly alkaline and saline waters of Lake Magadi, Kenya (pH ~10.0, alkalinity ~380 mmol·L 1, Na+ ~350 mmol·L 1, Cl ~110 mmol·L 1, osmolality ~580 mosmol·kg 1). ...
Health in perspective: framing motivational factors for personal sanitation in urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya, using anchored best–worst scaling
(2013)
Severe health, safety and environmental hazards are being created by the growing population of urban poor in low-income countries due to lack of access to sanitation and to inadequate existing sanitation systems. We developed ...
Settlement analysis of fresh and partially stabilised municipal solid waste in simulated controlled dumps and bioreactor landfills
(2008)
The patterns of settlement of fresh as well as partially stabilised municipal solid waste (MSW), undergoing degradation in five different landfill lysimeters, were studied elaborately. The first two lysimeters, R1 and R2, ...
Major Articles And Brief Reports-hiv/aids-injectable Contraceptive Use And Genital Ulcer Disease During The Early Phase Of Hiv-1 Infection
(2004)
We examined the association between host factors present near the time of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) acquisition and subsequent virus loads, in a prospective cohort study of women in Mombasa, Kenya. Women ...