Mitigation of environmental problems in Lake Victoria, East Africa: causal chain and policy options analyses.
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.
Odada
Eric O
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Pan-African START Secretariat (PASS), Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, P. O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya. eodada@uonbi.ac.ke
Olago
Daniel O
DO
Kulindwa
Kassim
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Ntiba
Micheni
M
Wandiga
Shem
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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