title: Mitigation of environmental problems in Lake Victoria, East Africa: causal chain and policy options analyses.
abstract: Lake Victoria is an international waterbody that offers the riparian communities a large number of extremely important environmental services. Over the past three decades or so, the lake has come under increasing and considerable pressure from a variety of interlinked human activities such as overfishing, species introductions, industrial pollution, eutrophication, and sedimentation. In this paper we examine the root causes for overfishing and pollution in Lake Victoria and give possible policy options that can help remediate or mitigate the environmental degradation.
authors.affiliation: Pan-African START Secretariat (PASS), Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, P. O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya. eodada@uonbi.ac.ke
authors.forename: Eric O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Odada
authors.forename: Daniel O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Olago
authors.forename: Kassim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kulindwa
authors.forename: Micheni
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ntiba
authors.forename: Shem
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wandiga
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004777:Environment; D005068:Eutrophication; D019015:Geologic Sediments; D007391:International Cooperation; D011050:Policy Making; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014881:Water Supply