Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Land-use Conflicts and Urban Land Management in Kenya
(2002)Protected areas throughout the world are key for conserving biodiversity, and land use is key for providing food, fiber, and other ecosystem services essential for human sustenance. As land use change isolates protected ... -
Agricultural Land Development in Rural Kenya: Policies Laws and Regulations
(2003)Links between land rights and agricultural development provide a conceptual framework to analyze land rights systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The discussion demonstrates that land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa evolved in ... -
Delivering Affordable housing in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies
(2005)Low-cost housing provision has been a major focus of government in post-apartheid urban South Africa. While successes can be noted, there is growing concern regarding the social and environmental sustainability of housing ... -
Role of Shelter Cooperatives in the Provision of affordable housing in Kenya:
(2010)Conventional shelter policies that focus on slum clearance, public housing, sites-and-services, upgrading of core dwellings and government assisted self-help are inadequate to meet the growing needs of the urban poor in ... -
The Evaluation of Mechanical Shakers with Reference to Coffee Harvesting
(2000)Current canopy shaker harvesting machines were designed and optimized based on experimental studies about their fruit removal efficiency. To further improve the performance of canopy shaker harvesting machines, a ... -
Strength Properties of the East African Bamboo,
(2000)Bamboo and cane remain very valuable natural resources to mankind and are still used today for a multitude of engineering projects. Today the world seeks new and innovative methods for saving resources, and the abundant ... -
Rainwater Harvesting for Crop Production in Semi-arid Areas
(2003)This paper presents an analysis of economics of rainwater harvesting by poor farmers in Tanzania. A questionnaire was used to survey 120 households to obtain information on the performance of their enterprises over 6 years ... -
Women at the Source of Life: The Experience of Kenya Rainwater Association
(2003)The main objective of this study was to determine the service life of high-density polyethylene lining when exposed to natural degradation in tropical climates using time-dependant properties. The changes in material ... -
Rainwater Harvesting for Improved Livelihoods
(2003)For the last two years, GHARP has, with a financial grant from USAID, implemented a regional project whose overall objective was to identify and evaluate the performance of RWH systems in the GHA with the aim of promoting ... -
Design Protocal for the Design of Flexible HDPE tanks.
(2006)he environmental profile of goods and services that satisfy our individual and societal needs is shaped by design activities. Substantial evidence suggests that current patterns of human activity on a global scale are not ... -
Principles of a mechanical shaker for coffee harvesting
(2008)Portable vibrating tool for the harvesting of olives, almonds, coffee beans and other fruits comprising a vibrating body (2) and an extension rod (3), and characterised by the fact that it is provided with devices to ... -
Predicting the Service Life of HDPE Plastic Lining for Water Reservoirs Using Viscoelasticity
(2010)The main objective of this study was to determine the service life of high-density polyethylene lining when exposed to natural degradation in tropical climates using time-dependant properties. The changes in material ... -
Role of Non-Motorized Transport Services in Nairobi
(1993)Based on the recent World Bank urban transport strategy review "Cities on the move", the paper examines the critical differences between the urban transport problems facing cities in the developing and industrialized worlds. ... -
The Study of the Development of Multimodal Transport Services in Kenya
(1993)The significant role of transport in the development of less-developed countries is widely accepted, but the critical importance of seaports is often under-appreciated. Evidence from the Indian Ocean ports of Kenya and ... -
Planning for Non-Motorized Transport as a Sustainable Transport System in Nairobi
(1994)The current pattern of metropolitan transportation and land development in the majority of countries around the world appears to be increasingly unsustainable from both an economical and environmental perspective. Many ... -
Mobility Plan for Eldoret Town: SSATP, World Bank,
(1997)Within the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP), the purpose of the Urban Transport component is to identify ways to provide affordable and safe mobility in urban areas, with special regard for the poorest ... -
Urbanization as a Component of Regional Development
(1998)This paper summarizes the theoretical insights drawn from a study of thirteen large–scale urban development projects (UDPs) in twelve European Union countries. The project focused on the way in which globalization and ... -
Stakeholders in the Limelight: Principles of Actor-Centred Resources Management.
(1998)The objective of this paper is to explore the extent to which changes in institutional configurations at the Polish centre of government have affected variation in the patterns of implementation of EU legislation in ... -
Rural-Urban Linkages in Regional Development.
(2000)evelopment theory and practice have focused on either “urban” or “rural” issues with little consideration of the interrelations between the two. By contrast, several empirical studies show that the link- ages between ... -
A model for a four-dimensional integrated regional geodetic network
(1999)Abstract F our-dimensional geo desy deals with in tegrated pro cessing of geo detic observ ations in order to analyse the net w ork geometry and its v ariation with time, when these observ ations dep ...
