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Fingerponds: Managing Nutrients & Primary Productivity For Enhanced Fish Production in Lake Victoria’s Wetlands Uganda
Fingerponds are earthen ponds dug at the edge of natural wetlands and stocked naturally with wild fish during flooding. They preserve the wetland environment in...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41697-9 (Taylor & Francis)
The Dynamics of Shoreline Wetlands and Sediments of Northern Lake Victoria
This book presents the results of research conducted between 2000 and 2004 on Lake Victoria (East Africa). The research examined the spatial spread of shoreline wetlands...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42649-7 (Taylor & Francis)
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Pathogen Removal Mechanisms in Macrophyte and Algal Waste Stabilization Ponds
PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft
Pathogen removal mechanisms in macrophyte and algal-based waste stabilization ponds were studied in Ghana and Colombia. The macrophytes used were water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) and...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41695-5 (Taylor & Francis)
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Fingerponds: Seasonal Integrated Aquaculture in East African Freshwater Wetlands: Exploring their potential for wise use strategies
PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft
Wetlands play an important role in the livelihoods of many rural households particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. However, due to decline in rainfed terrestrial agriculture, many...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41696-2 (Taylor & Francis)
Urban Groundwater, Meeting the Challenge
IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 8
During the past three decades, urban groundwater has emerged as one of the world’s most pressing issues. Explosive population growth, most prevalent in cities, has...
2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40745-8 (Taylor & Francis)
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Ecosystems
Using functional ecology as the basis for applying the ecosystem concept in contemporary environmental science and ecology, this second edition of this highly successful volume...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33279-8 (Routledge)
The Essential Handbook of Ground-Water Sampling
Tremendous improvements in ground-water sampling methodologies and analytical technologies have made it possible to collect and analyze truly representative samples to detect increasingly lower levels...2006 | Paperback: 978-1-4200-4278-8 (CRC Press)
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Characterisation and Engineering Properties of Natural Soils
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Characterisation and Engineering Properties of Natural Soils, Singapore, 29 November-1 December 2006
Following on from the first two volumes, published in 2002, volumes 3 and 4 of Characterisation and Engineering Properties of Natural Soils review laboratory testing,...
2006 | Pack: 978-0-415-42691-6 (Taylor & Francis)
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The Nile Hydroclimatology: Impact of the Sudd Wetland
Hydroclimatology has emerged as a new discipline in line with increasing awareness of the connected nature of land-surface-atmosphere processes. Changes in landuse affect the atmospheric moisture...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38483-4 (Taylor & Francis)
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Environmental Engineering
Proceedings of the 2nd National Congress on Environmental Engineering, 4-8 September 2005
Environmental engineering protects the conditions of a safe environment, its role being crucial in eliminating ecological threats. It has an interdisciplinary character, utilising principles from...
2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40818-9 (Taylor & Francis)
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