dc.contributor.author | Harper, David M | |
dc.contributor.author | Morrison, Edward H.J | |
dc.contributor.author | Macharia, Michael M | |
dc.contributor.author | Mavuti, Kenneth M | |
dc.contributor.author | Upton, Caroline | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-15T15:35:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-15T15:35:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Freshwater Reviews, 4(2):89-114. 2011 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1608/FRJ-4.2.149 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/23379 | |
dc.description.abstract | We examine the degradation of the natural capital and ecosystem services of an important
tropical lake, Kenya’s Lake Naivasha, in the context of human activities and exploitation since the
mid-20th century. These factors have culminated in the recent emergence of innovative governance
arrangements with potential contributions to the future sustainability of the lake ecosystem.
Lake Naivasha maintains high ecological interest and biodiversity value despite its food web being
controlled, at three trophic levels, by alien species for the past 40 years. The lake now has very high
sites worldwide to be nominated by the government for Ramsar status as a result of local action,
By 2010, however, progress towards sustainable management was limited, not least because the lake
water had continued to be over-exploited for irrigation, geothermal power exploration and domestic
supplies outside the catchment. A prolonged drought in Kenya in 2009–10, in conjunction with
this ongoing over-exploitation, caused the lake level to recede to the lowest since the late 1940s and
We examine the ecological changes over the past 40 years and the reasons why new
management regimes instituted over the past 10 years have to date been unable to halt
ecological degradation of the lake and its environs. We outline a future trajectory that links newgovernance initiatives with a wider network of stakeholders which, together with external
interventions that have been initiated in 2011, may well help to restore the ecosystem’s health.
management; ecohydrology. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Freshwater Biological Association | en |
dc.title | Lake Naivasha, Kenya: Ecology, Society and Future | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.publisher | Department of Biology, University of Leicester | en |
local.publisher | Department of Geography, University of Leicester | en |
local.publisher | Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, | en |
local.publisher | Birdlife International, Africa Secretariat, ICIPE Campus | en |
local.publisher | School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, | en |