Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Using Geoinformatics to Identify Suitable Middle to Long Distance Athletics’ Training Sites in Kenya.
(2006)Kenyan athletes have continued to dominate middle and long distance running in the global arena for a very long time now. In this study, the use of geoinformation in selecting suitable training sites for endurance running ... -
Combining geometric geoid and transformation parameters to facilitate local GPS Surveying in Nairobi area.
(2006)In this section on government mapping activities, we are attempting to review major recent activities at the Federal, state, and local levels. The lengthiest part is that covering the Federal government. In part this ... -
The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping malaria prevalence
(2009)Distance is important in access to health care, in turn a key measure of attainment of Millennium Development Goals. The aim of this thesis was to develop spatial models of access and utilisation of government health ... -
Determination of minimum and maximum land holding.
(2012)This study introduces a new geographic framework, phenological classification, for the conterminous United States based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) ... -
Establishment of a pro poor Land Information Management System
(2012)While the world's attention focuses on the monumental reforms underway in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China has been systematically restructuring its socialist economy, gradually ... -
A critical Look at Some Common Methods Used in Urban and Housing Research
(1988)Colonialism imposed the urban order on the indigenous societies of Africa, especially in those areas of southern Africa settled by whites. Many anthropologists have investigated the consequent social changes, called ... -
The Origins and Valuation
(1988)Cost-benefit analysis-applying economic reasoning to increasingly complex health policy decisions-continues to be a source of vehement disagreement among its practitioners. More than merely technical issues in measurement ... -
Land Use Policy in Relation to Social Forestry in Kenya
(1990)This report seeks to provide a better understanding of the economic framework of smallholder agriculture in Kenya, particularly in relation to tree growing management and practices. Although much of the report focuses on ... -
Gati na Mikoko: The Management of Waterfront Lands in Mombasa
(1992)A multi-institutional planning team headed by Coast Development Authority (CDA) in Kenya initiated an Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM) process in 1994 on a pilot study site of Nyali- ... -
Prioritizing Research Agenda for Public Consumption in Developing Countries
(1992)The study of urban tourism and associated focus on urban tourist precincts is a growing area of interest as practitioners, researchers and policy makers seek to understand the phenomenon of tourism within the urban ... -
Development Priorities for Malindi
(1993)Introduction of international tourism as a development stimulus or tool in sub-Saharan Africa is relatively recent. In the context of Kenya, tourism development, in volume and value terms, exemplifies a success story. ... -
Professional Management Practices"
(1993)As decision makers become more involved in implementing Total Quality Management, questions are raised about which management practices should be emphasized. In this exploratory investigation of the relationship of specific ... -
Real Estate Sub-markets
(1993)The idea that location is important in real estate economics is not new. However, the spatial dimension of real estate data is not always taken into account in traditional real estate models. Spatial econometrics is a tool ... -
Characteristics of Real Property
(1993)This article examines how corporate decisions about the location for a new manufacturing plant in the U.S. are influenced by unionization, taxes, and other characteristics of states. The conditional logit model is used ... -
Implications of the European Market on Africa Economies and the Emergence of a United States of Africa
(1995)For a capatalist economy to function, its labor force must be maintained; that is, workers must receive a historically determined minimal day-to-day subsistence. It must also be renewed; that is, vacancies must be filled. ... -
Security of Tenure Among the Low Income People in the Next Millennium
(1999)This paper introduces a special issue of Habitat International on land tenure and property rights. It sets the scene for case studies carried out in countries around the world commissioned by the author as part of a research ... -
Farmers Information Matrix:
(2009)For over a decade Information Communications Techno logy (ICT) has come to dominate daily life around the globe. Whether it is for financial information, markets, news, general knowledge or simply entertainment, the ... -
Sustainability of Research and Development:
(2009)We share our experience on how to establish sustain able research and development based on successful collaborative research between the Local Language Speech Technology Initiative of UK and Kenyan partner - Teknobyte ... -
A review of current accessibility Legislation in Kenya
(1992)Excerpt) The aim of this paper is to review the current accessibility legislation on the built environment in Kenya and document the current situation in the light of persons with disabilities. The paper will briefly explain ...
