Search for dissertations about: "Lake Victoria"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words Lake Victoria.

  2. 6. Uncertain Futures : Adaptive capacities to climate variability and change in the Lake Victoria Basin

    Author : Sara Gabrielsson; LUCSUS; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adaptive capacities; climate vulnerability; collective action; Lake Victoria Basin; smallholder farmers; sustainable adaptation; sustainability science.;

    Abstract : The Lake Victoria basin (LVB) in East Africa can be considered a climate change hotspot because of its large rural population dependent on rain-fed farming. Drawing on extensive fieldwork (2007-2011) in rural communities along the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya and Tanzania, I explore adaptive capacities to climate variability and change and discuss how they interrelate in situ. READ MORE

  4. 7. From Rural Gift to Urban Commodity : Traditional Medicinal Knowledge and Socio-spatial Transformation in the Eastern Lake Victoria Region

    Author : Ouma Anne; Gunnar Malmberg; Aina Tollefsen; Linda Helgesson; Stacey Langwick; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Eastern Lake Victoria Region; Traditional Medicinal knowledge; Traditional Healers; Youth; Inter-generational learning processes; commodification and commercialization; gift; Socio-spatial transformation; rural-urban; gender; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : As we celebrate all the dynamic and dramatic improvements in human health care in the 21st century, life in much of Africa begins with and is sustained with the support of traditional medicinal knowledge. Research on traditional medicinal knowledge (TMK) is extensive, but rather few studies have been written about Traditional Healers' (THs') own perceptions about TMK and practices in relation to changing societal dynamics. READ MORE

  5. 8. Missions on a colonial frontier west of lake Victoria : evangelical missions in north-west Tanganyika to 1932

    Author : Carl-Johan Hellberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

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  6. 9. Production Technology and the Role of Skipper Skills in Lake Victoria Fisheries

    Author : Razack B. Lokina; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; incentives; Lake Victoria; productivity; remuneration; skipper skills; technical efficiency;

    Abstract : In this study we seek to explain the role of skipper skills in the productivity of fishing boats. The data is from the Lake Victoria fisheries for three fishing seasons (normal, peak and off-season) and two major species (Nile perch and Dagaa). READ MORE

  7. 10. Essays on the Infestation of Lake Victoria by the Water Hyacinth

    Author : Eseza Kateregga; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Water hyacinth; water hyacinth indicators; water hyacinth induced catchability coefficients; intrinsic growth rates for stocks; carrying capacity; elasticity of catch with respect to fishing effort; electricity outage costs.;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays that seek to estimate the abundance of the water hyacinth in Lake Victoria during the 1990s and analyse its effects on the catchability of fish, estimate the elasticities of catch with respect to the various components of effort in lake Victoria fisheries, and estimate the welfare costs of electricity outages. In the first essay, data on the extent of water hyacinth mat coverage collected from a number of reports and surveys is used to fit time trend water hyacinth mats growth curves for the three sections of Lake Victoria. READ MORE