Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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The Multilingual Situation of Kenya
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Local environmental perceptions and conservation practices
(Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi,, 1979)This paper discusses the relationship between people's perception about conservation and their potential or actual commitment to soil conservation in Kenya. In cases where knowledge about the basic needs of conservation ... -
Issues in the transfer of useful knowledge in agricultural development in Kenya
(Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 1974)This paper outlines the major issues in the production, adaptation and transfer of technical knowledge in the field of agriculture in Kenya. An attempt is initially made to place rural and agricultural development within ... -
Human factors in agricultural management in East Africa
(Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1977)Many attempts to introduce change into farming systems have resulted in dependence, alienation, resource immobility and the suppression of indigenous adaptation techniques. Dr Mbithi evaluates the social and management ... -
Secondary school students' preference for help-givers for their personal, Emotional, educational and vocational problems and their attitudes toward help-seeking behaviour
(University of Nairobi,Department of education psychology, 2012)The purpose of this research was to investigate the preference for help-givers by secondary school students with their emotional, personal, educational and vocational problems, and whether these students held favourable ... -
Community based conservation and ecotourism as an environmental management practice for climate change adaptation in Ewaso Nyiro arid land ecosystem, Samburu County Kenya
(Department of Public Health Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Nairobi,College of Agriculture and Veterinary SciencesDepartment of Sociology and Social work, University of Nairobi, 2013)Communities inhabiting the fragile Arid and Semi-Arid (ASALs) ecosystems of Northern Kenya are strongly impacted by climate variability and change. Their pastoral livelihoods are threatened. Community based approach ... -
Introduction African Mountains and Highlands: Crisis in Africa-Needed Research and Action, with Special Reference to Kenya
(Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, 1992)This introductory paper notes the importance of the African mountains and highlands in providing resources for concentrations of dense populations in lowland areas and explores how scientific information can be readily ... -
Desertification in africa with special reference to east africa
(Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, 1996)Desertification is the process of vegetation and soil deterioration. It is a result of improper landuse primarily by man (sometimes unwittingly). It brings about reduction in plant and animal biomass in the affected area. ... -
Mount Kenya biosphere reserve
(Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi,, 2008)Mount Kenya rises to 5199 m. a.s.l. and thus a major landmark. The mountain is a Pleistocene composite dormant volcano. It is a major water-tower that serves lowland inhabitants up to the Indian Ocean. It was protected as ... -
Erosion and planation surfaces in the Machakos-Kitui area of Kenya
(Kluwer Academic PublisherDepartment of Geography, University of Nairobi, 1978)Geomorphologically, Africa is renowned for widely developed erosion surfaces. Details of these surfaces, including how they have come to be, are only imperfectly understood. This paper gives the results of a detailed study ... -
Mount Kenya and Its Environs: A Review of the Interaction between Mountain and People in an Equatorial Setting
(Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, 1993) -
The Physique Of Kenya: A Contribution In Landscape Analysis
(Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, 1966)This is a study of the physiography of the Republic of Kenya. It shows that the country has a diversified landscape which so far, has not been given a serious geographical analysis. The existing physiographic maps are ... -
Social Work and the Metamorphosis of Participatory Development in Kenya; the Case of Constituency Development Fund, 20th – 24th May. the 7th Pan African Social Work Conference. , Africana Hotel, Kampala - Uganda
(Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Organization justice and the management of change: a case of outplaced employees in Kenyan parastatal organizations
(Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Nairobi, 2008) -
The Phonology of English Loan Words in Three Kalenjin Dialects
(University of Nairobi,Department of Linguistic and Languages, 2012) -
The Legal Implications Of Terrorism in East Africa
(University of Nairobi,School of Law, 2002) -
Extrapulmonary and disseminated tuberculosis in HIV-1-seropositive patients presenting to the acute medical services in Nairobi
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1990-10)We studied 506 consecutive adult acute medical admissions to hospital in Nairobi; 95 (18.8%) were seropositive for HIV-1, and 43 new cases of active tuberculosis (TB) were identified. TB was clearly associated with HIV ... -
Taxation and a Clean and Healthy Environment: A Case Study of the Mining of Titanium in Kenya Book Chapter on Contemporary Issues in Environmental Taxation
(University of Nairobi,School of Law, 2008) -
Development and the legal process in Kenya: An analysis of the role of law in rural development administration.
(Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, 1984)Argues that the concept of "development" in the Third World is meaningless unless it is thought specifically in terms of rural development. A paradigm is suggested that might be of value in the analysis of the role of law ... -
The theme of “the past”; in Caribbean literature
(Department of Literature, 1973)
