Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Assessment of potential approaches to charcoal as a sustainable source of income in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2003) -
Training plan (2008-2010) for the Western Kenya Intergrated Ecosystem Management Project, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
(Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2008) -
Kenya Afforestation for Charcoal. Case study No. 6 in, FAO, 2009: Small Scale Bioenergy Initiatives: Brief description and preliminary lessons on livelihood impacts from case studies in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Rome, Italy.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2009) -
Charcoal: Not old-fahioned and outdated
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2010) -
Evaluating Development in Small Sub-National Areas of Developing Countries
(1991)This paper focuses on problems of measuring and evaluating development for small subnational areas in a developing country. It has been stressed that the core of the problem is a lack of suitable tools to do the job, due ... -
Problems of project implementation: A postmortem study of Thika Dam Project
(Land Develoment, University of Nairobi, 1999)This paper analyses the problems of project implementation programmes. Taking a case study of Thika Dam Component of the Third Nairobi Water Supply Project, the analysis reveals that delays in land acquisition among other ... -
Land Taxation Policy in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 1999) -
Land Taxation for Sustainable Development in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2000) -
Privatization of urban water service provision: the Kenyan experiment
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2006)One of the services that have been poorly provided in the urban areas in Kenya is water and sanitation. There are many reasons, which can be attributed to poor provision of water and sanitation as undertaken by the local ... -
Privatization model for water enterprise in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of NairobiSchool of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, , 35 Marylebone RoadLondon NW1 5LS, Tel: +44 207 911 5000. E-mail: owiti.kakumu@yahoo.com, 2006)The world over, the role and eligibility of the state in the provision of water supply is increasingly coming into question. Policy makers and analysts are advocating the abdication of the state in favour of private ... -
How far are developing countries from the call of ecological tax reform? A review of environmental fiscal policy for Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of NairobiUniversity of Westminster, Marylebone Campus Rm. 221, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS, UK., 2006)The main objective of this paper is to determine whether the ecological tax reform paradigm that hitherto is employed by a section of industrialised countries as an instrument of environmental management has potential ... -
Sustainability prospects for water utilities privatization in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2006)Privatization of water utilities is widely practiced in the belief that market forces may help achieve conservation as per the Dublin Principles (Fourth Principle). Kenya has adopted the privatization strategy with the ... -
Land use management challenges for the city of Nairobi
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Non-compliance and formalisation: mutual accommodation in land subdivision processes in Eldoret, Kenya
(2006)Conflicts over land are central to Kenya's political economy. In particular, the displacement of indigenous inhabitants during the process of establishing settler agriculture and the association of dispossession and land ... -
Strategizing the decennial census of housing for poverty reduction in Kenya.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007)As the world gropes for an understanding of and solutions to poverty, one of its typologies that has come to the fore is housing poverty. Housing poverty afflicts developing countries in particular, and solving it may bring ... -
The political ecology of water commercialization in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007)Water is an essential commodity for human life. It is also a political and environmental good. The latter attribute makes it a suitable candidate for analysis in the context of political ecology. This is what this paper ... -
Sustain no city: An ecological conceptualisation of urban development.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Mainstreaming the Participatory Approach in Water Resource Governance: The 2002 water law in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2008)
