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Ecotourism Ideals, Contradictory Actors Practices and Environmental Conservation in Kenya's Tourism Destinations
(Scientific & Academic Publishing., 2013)
Kenya adopted ecotourism in the 1990s as a strategy to address environmental and local development problems facing many of her tourism destinations. After two decades, most of the problems that ecotourism sought to address ...
Beyond Land Titling for Sustainable Management of Agricultural Land: Lessons from Ndome and Ghazi in Taita-Taveta, Kenya
(Kassel University Press, 2002)
This paper is based on a 1996-1999 case study that was done in semi-arid Ndome and Ghazi, Taita-Taveta District, in Kenya to determine the root causes of persistent erosion damage in the area. More than 10 years after land ...
Environmental issues and socio-economic problems emanating from salt mining in Kenya: a case study of Magarini District
(, 2013)
Salt mining generates colossal profits for the investors and towards Kenya’s revenue margin. However, salt farming in Magarini District has increasingly elicited social concerns locally and ecological stress at large. ...
Eco-certification and Insertion of Socioeconomic and Cultural Best Practices in Ecotourism Operations in Kenya
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013-03)
The eco
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rating scheme, a certification initiative for the tourism sector has existed in Kenya since the year 2003
when eco
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labels were awarded to the first five tourism accommodation facilities. Since then, interest ...
Potential for co-management approaches to strengthen livelihoods of forest dependent communities: A Kenyan case
(Elsevier B.V., 2016)
Many natural resource management researchers have focused either on institutional design and evaluation or on livelihood outcomes per se without explicitly acknowledging and rigorously examining linkages between the two. ...
Assessment of corporate management practices in public universities in Kenya
(International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2013-05)
In order to continue attracting and retaining high-class intellectual power and hence guarantee quality service delivery, public university management will need to change and adjust in line with increasing local democratisation ...
Environmental risks of urban agriculture in the Lake Victoria drainage basin: A case of Kisumu municipality, Kenya
(ELSEVIER, 2007-12)
This paper examines the environmental risks threatening sustainable urban agriculture in Kisumu municipality. The issues covered in the paper are: review of policy and institutional framework, infrastructure and service ...
Impact of Stone Quarrying on the Environment and the Livelihood of Communities in Mandera County, Kenya
(SCIENCEDOMAIN International, 2016)
Background: Stone quarrying is one of the major practices carried out in the world by the construction industry. In Kenya and specifically in Mandera County area, stone quarrying industry has grown rapidly in recent years. ...
Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi
(GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2017)
In the wake of widespread interethnic “clashes” and al-Shabaab
terrorist attacks in Kenya over the last few years, the state has embarked on
the devolution of capacities for ensuring security and peace to the local
level. ...
Contributing to the cultural ecosystem services and human wellbeing debate: a case study application on indicators and linkages
(International Association for Landscape Ecology, Chapter Germany, 2017)
Inadequacies in the indication of cultural ecosystem services (CES) are a hindrance in assessing their
comprehensive impacts on human wellbeing. Similarly, uncertainties about the quantity and quality of
CES, in real ...