Browsing PAUWES Master Thesis Series by Title
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Drought Analysis for Water Planning in Agriculture (A Case-study of Gourma Province, Eastern Burkina Faso)
(2018)Drought is a naturally occurring event that human beings grapple with the question of how to mitigate its impacts. Certainly, Agriculture is one of the biggest casualties of drought events but the extent to which the ... -
Drying Of Agricultural Products By Geothermal Heat In Kenya
(2016)The main objectives of this work were to carry out a prefeasibility study on the use geothermal heat in drying of agricultural product in Kenya and design of a geothermal drying system for a selected crop at a preferred ... -
Dynamic Modeling And Economic Analysis And Optimisation Of Photovoltaic Ground Water Pumping System For Irrigation In Hot Arid Climate
(2017)Remote areas do not have access to electricity and therefore mostly use diesel water pumping systems (DWPS) to irrigate their crops. It has been, however, found to be expensive and unsustainable in the long run especially ... -
An Econometric Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Crbon Dioxide Emissions in Nigeria
(PAUWES, 2018-10)"Global concern for climate change as a result of incessant environmental damaging impacts of greenhouse gas emission is still surging high. Many researchers have examined the linear relationship of carbon emission with ... -
Economic and Environmental Comparison of a Natural Gas Plant and Solar PV Systems for Rural Electrification in Nigeria: A Case Study of Iyiora Anam
(PAUWES, 2018-09)Electricity access rate in Nigeria have been all time low with 70% of rural dwellers lacking access to electricity, despite policies aimed at providing electricity to these off-grid communities. Therefore, in a bid to ... -
Effect of Non-Revenue Water on the Operation of African Water Utilities: Case studies of Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire
(PAUWES, 2020-12)Non-Revenue Water (NRW) continues to be a threat to water utilities’ technical and financial sustainability in African countries. However, the issue lies in paying little to no attention on the effect that it has on the ... -
Effect of Off-grid Power on Growth of Micro, Small and Medium Size Enterprises in Kenya: A Case of MSMEs in Bungoma County
(PAUWES, 2018-09)This study sought to establish the effect of off-grid power on growth of micro, small and medium size enterprises in Bungoma County. The study specifically focused on the effects of access to off-grid power, affordability ... -
Effect of Wet Coffee Processing Industries Waste on Water Quality of Receiving Water Body and Its Trend on Downstream (Case Study of Gidabo Watershed in South Ethiopia)
(2017)Environmental pollution is a worldwide problem, currently it is a challenge to keep environmental quality while achieving sustainable development. Wet coffee processing is one of environmental polluting anthropogenic ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SANITATION AND HYGIENE POLICY LINKS IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
(PAUWES, 2021-11-20)Sanitation is one of the major issues confronting humanity today. Many households within the developing world are exceptionally a long way from accomplishing adequate degrees of sanitation and hygiene notwithstanding the ... -
Effects of Land Use Changes on Sediment Yield and Its Potential Contribution to Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Reservoirs
(2016)Sedimentation is becoming a big challenge worldwide to water resources development in general and to the reservoirs in particular by reducing the storage capacity and then useful lifetime of the dam. Tekeze dam is the ... -
Effects of Urbanization on Groundwater Quality in African Cities: A Case Study of Accra, Ghana
(PAUWES, 2019-10)Population influx in African cities have caused the emergence of slums. Most urban slum dwellers depend on groundwater sources because of their availability and affordability. Due to the dense living conditions of the ... -
Energy Access and Impact Analysis of Biogas Harnessing on MAU Forest Conservation
(PAUWES, 2019-10)Forests as a source of energy are important in many countries, especially in rural areas in the subSaharan African countries, where the availability of wood fuel is literally a human necessity for survival. These countries ... -
Energy democracy and Germany’s transition to renewable energy: What can Zimbabwe learn to end its electricity power woes?
(PAUWES, 2020-12)The research was conducted in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Power Company in Harare and Bulawayo. The major objective of the research was to contribute to resolve the electricity energy crises in Zimbabwe. Another objective ... -
Energy Efficiency in the Envelope of Existing Building Case of Study "Research Laboratory of Abou Baker Belkaid”
(PAUWES, 2018-09)The world is in perpetual evolution, this evolution is due to the man in order to obtain a comfort and to facilitate his life, he comes to consume a lot of energy, thus causing an environmental degradation. The most ... -
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 ... -
Enhanced biogas production by anaerobic co-digestion from food waste and agriculture byproducts
(PAUWES, 2019-10)Several studies have been carried out on the AD process of biogas production using different substrate. The co-digestion process was recommended to overcome the difficulties, there have been a number of published papers ... -
Enhancing the role of local government in promoting sustainable energy transitions in Ghana. A case study of Wa Municipality
(2019-10)African local governments have an important role to play in Sustainable Energy Transitions (SET), yet their involvement in sustainable energy planning is severely inadequate. The main aim of this study was to examine how ... -
Ensuring Sustainable Electricity for All in West Africa through Innovative Decentralised Renewable Energy Solutions: An Analysis of Ivorian Context
(PAUWES, 2018-09)"The purpose of this study is twofold. On the one hand, remind African and international policymakers that access to energy is a basic right needed for the realization of other rights. On the other hand, it seeks to find ... -
Environmental and Economic Cost Analysis of a Solar PV, Diesel and hybrid PV-Diesel water Pumping Systems for Agricultural Irrigation in Rwanda: Case study of Bugesera district
(PAUWES, 2018-09)Rwanda agriculture sector has a significant impact on country’s economy whereby 80% of population depend on agriculture. Poor performance of agriculture sector affects economic development in different angles as 91% of ... -
Establishing Efficient Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework of Transboundary Water Governance and Management, the Case of Tanganyika Lake Basin
(PAUWES, 2020-12)As water is in complex circulation, the consideration of the interactions between all types of waters — surface water, groundwater and return waters — is important for the management and protection of these shared ...