PAUWES: Recent submissions
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Modelling Runoff, Soil Erosion And Sediment Yield In Sosiani Catchment In Kenya Using Arcswat
(2017)Sosiani catchment hosts Eldoret Town, a major agricultural, education and medical center in the Rift valley region of Kenya. Recent research has established that the quality of water in Sosiani River is rapidly deteriorating ... -
Impacts Of Sustainable Land Management Practices On Soil Physical Properties And Agricultural Drought Adaptation In Eastern Cape, South Africa
(2017)Intensive removal of soil resources through the use of repeated tillage, crop residue removal, intensive aftermath grazing in croplands, biomass burning, use of crop straw and animal pats for fuel, deforestation and ... -
Impact Evaluation Of Soil And Water Conservation Measures On Ecosystem Services In Thikachania Catchment, Kenya
(2017)Across the world, ecosystem services such as water provision, sediment trapping and floods regulation are threatened by the increased degradation of catchments. This is as a result of increased pressure from population ... -
Assessing Flood Risk And Developing A Framework For A Mitigation Strategy Under Current And Future Climate Scenarios In Nyabarongo Upper Catchment, Rwanda
(2017)Literally, Rwanda has experienced climate change and variability in terms of frequency, intensity, and persistence of extreme changes, such as floods and droughts as well. The occurrence of rainfall deficits and excess has ... -
A Modeling Approach to Soil Erosion Control and Management Using PAP/RAC Model and GIS: A Case Study of Boufekrane Watershed, Morocco
(2017)Erosion by water remains the predominant form of land degradation in the world and accounts for 84% of affected areas. More particularly, the Mediterranean costal region is recognized to be of extreme fragility to erosion. ... -
Assessment Of Climate Change Impact On Hydrology Of Lower Awash Sub Basin, Ethiopia
(2017)This thesis research focusing on assessing the impact of climate change on hydrology over Lower Awash Sub Basin using downscaled climate projection from GCM product outputs of HadCM3. The Statistical Down Scaling Model ... -
Assessment Of Soil Erosion Potential And Its Impacts On Hydroelectricity Generation And Potable Water Treatment In Sebeya Catchment, Rwanda
(2017)This study assessed the potential of erosion and its impact on Gihira Water Treatment Plant and Gisenyi Hydropower Plant in Sebeya catchment, Rwanda. The study determined the perception of the population on the existence ... -
Hydro, Solar, And Wind: Energy Policy Implication In Renewable Energy Deployment In Rwanda
(2017)Rwanda energy sector is one of the important drivers for her economic transformation and livelihood improvement of her population toward the country’s vision 2020. The sector currently needs a high attention to sustain ... -
Life Cycle Assessment On Economic Feedbacks In The Charcoal Value Chain In Lusaka District, Zambia
(2017)Charcoal production and trade in much of southern Africa, Zambia included is presented as a set of activities with adverse environmental impacts largely because the socio-economic benefits of charcoal production and trade ... -
Impact of Land-Use Change and Climate Variability on Soil Hydrologic Processes in the Upper Oum Er Rabia River Basin, Morocco
(2017)Given Morocco’s per capita water availability, basin hydrologic modelling can sustainably help in: planning for the anthropogenic actions and varying climate effect on scarce water resources; reviving ecologically sensitive ... -
Solar-Aided Anaerobic Digester System for Small Scale Application in Uganda
(2016)Access to reliable and affordable energy is a sustainable development goal whose achievement calls for every stakeholder’s input. The drive to combat energy poverty in rural communities especially in African countries ... -
Causal Relations and Elasticities between Renewable Electricity Generation Excluding Hydro and Economic Growth in Kenya
(2017)This study examined the relationship between renewable energy generation excluding hydro and economic growth. It employed a multivariate approach hence other variables included in the study were financial development, ... -
Assesment Of The Nexus Of Energy, Climate Change, Urbanization And Industrialization For Africa’s Transformation
(2017)Humanity is urbanizing rapidly in Africa, and the demand for energy remains highest amongst other basic goods and services. Scenarios suggest that guarantees for energy poverty alleviation and availability will take longer. ... -
Barriers And Driving Forces For Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvements In Kenya
(2017)Kenya having a Vision 2030 of transforming into an industrialized, middle income country has plans of increasing its power generation to meet the growing demand by the industries. However, this has to be done in a sustainable ... -
Utilizing A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach To Evaluate Sustainability Of Renewable Energy Generation Sources In Uganda
(2017)There are increasing concerns on utilization of energy resources ranging from perceived economic, technical, environmental and socio political risks in the deployment of renewable energy systems which affects the suitability ... -
Energy Performance In Developing Sustainable Buildings: A Case Study Of Building In Kigali, Rwanda
(2017)Energy efficiency and conservation have been defined as the cheapest and fasted form of generation and also a key player for sustainable development in economies in the world. The practice of energy efficiency in all Rwandan ... -
Comparative Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Hybrid-Solar System Using Net Metering: Case Study Of Kyagalanyi Coffee Factoryuganda
(2017)In the business arena especially industries, energy has a very big role and direct impact on the production cost of any given product. Reduction in the amount of energy consumed to produce a unit product has a direct ... -
Developing A Real-Time Sms Feedback Tool For Off-Grid Household Electricity Consumption
(2017)Close to 95% of the 1.2 billion global population without grid access live in Sub Saharan Africa, South and East Asia, and the remainder is spread just about equally across Middle East, Central Asia and Latin America. The ... -
Design and Characterization of Organic Solar Cells Based on Non-Fullerene Acceptors
(2017)The rise in the global population is constantly putting pressure on the available energy resources leading to an excessive exploitation of conventional energy resources such as fossil fuels. The use of fossil fuels has led ... -
Techno-Economic Assessment of a Combined Heat and Power Technology based on a Reciprocating Gas Spark Ignition Engine in Waste Water Treatment Plant of El Karma, Oran, Algeria
(2017)This study concerns energy analysis in the waste water treatment plant (WWTP) of El Karma in Oran which is the largest municipal wastewater treatment plant in Algeria and second largest in Africa. This plant is designed ...