PAUWES Master Thesis Series: Recent submissions
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Biogas Production from Co-digestion of Cattle Manure and Food Waste
(PAUWES, 2018-09)There is a growing global demand of bioenergy production from animal manures and municipal solid wastes. In this study, the potential of cattle manure, food waste and their co-digestion for biogas production was investigated. ... -
Modeling of Storm Water Runoff for Improving Floods Resilience, Water Supply, Soil and Ecological Conservation. The Case of Msimbazi Catchment in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
(2018)"In rapidly urbanizing catchments, increase in stormwater runoff quantity may lead to numerous of serious problems such as flash floods, soil erosion and alteration of an ecosystem. Changes in land use usually affect ... -
Climate Change And Natural Disasters In Africa; Case Study Of Rwanda
(2016)Different theories emphasize the role climate change plays in the actual abnormal occurrence of climate related natural disasters. This is a stressful issue for researchers, Scientifics and politicians due to inevitable ... -
Simulation of Land Use Changes and Impacts on the Water Balance of an Unconfined Aquifer, Case Study: Saiss Aquifer, Morocco
(2017)Ground water is widely a used fresh water source upon which plants, animal and human life relies. However, over years this golden source has become under diverse threat of depletion and degradation more so in circumstances ... -
Evaluation of Experience from Using Sure® Standard in Infrastructure Projects: A Case Study of the Northern Collector Tunnel (Nct) Phase I Water Project
(2017)The concept of sustainable development has evolved since the Brundtland Report of 1987 but the principles of ensuring environmental, social and economic balance in the face of development remain the same to this day. ... -
Sustainability of Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Systems on the Energy Transition in Algeria
(2016)Economic development and high population growth are the causes of the increasing energy demand in Algeria. Algeria relies mainly on the fossil fuels to supply the increasing energy demand. Although this long adopted pattern ... -
Evaluating Integrated Water Resource Management Practices And Experiences In Ethiopia (Tigray) In Line With Iwrm Pillars And Dublin Principles For Sustainable Water Resource Management: In Case Of Genfel River
(2017)Fresh water resource is becoming a scarce resource in the world. This is due to human and natural induced factors and the impact of climate changes. To manage water resources, nowadays, integrated water resources management ... -
Sizing of A Hybrid Solar PV-Wind-Fuel Cell Power System for Isolated Location
(2016)At 23%, Rwanda electrification rate is still very low. Most of remote and rural areas are not connected to the grid network due to the insufficient power production and high capital cost for grid network extension. A large ... -
Soil Loss In A Catchment And Change Of Storage Volume In A Hydropower Reservoir Case Study: Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam, East Region Cameroon
(2017)For many purposes such as water supply, irrigation flood control and hydropower production, many reservoirs are built throughout the planet. However, because of the processes of erosion and sedimentation, these infrastructures ... -
Geothermal Electricity Compared To Electricity From Other Sources In Kenya
(2016)Kenya's energy mix is predominantly renewables; more than 80 percent of electricity is generated from locally available renewable sources. To lessen the pressure put by economic growth on the electricity supply and to meet ... -
Modeling Subsurface Drainage to Control Water-Tables in Selected Agricultural Lands in South Africa
(2017)Like many other arid parts of the world, South Africa is experiencing irrigation-induced drainage problems in the form of waterlogging and soil salinization, like other agricultural parts of the world. Poor drainage in the ... -
Experimental Design for Optimizing the Removal of Heavy Metals Ability from Wastewater by Ficus Benjamina
(2017)Excessive and cumulative release of toxic metals from industrial effluents due to rapid industrialization has posed hazard to aquatic ecosystem integrity and environmental/ human health. The inadequacy and high cost of ... -
Assessment of Land Use Impacts on Surface Runoff and Its Implication for Long-Term Planning, Using SWAT Model at Baro River Basin, Southwestern Ethiopia
(2017)Assessing the effects of land use and land cover change on hydrology is important for long-term planning of water resource management strategies. This study aims to evaluate the impacts of land use and land cover change ... -
Application of Satellite Rainfall Products for the Assessment of Water Availability in Ethiopian Highlands: The Case of Ribb Watershed
(2017)One of the versatile use of satellite rainfall products is provision of continuous information which can be used for the assessment of water availability in the data sparse areas. Primarily, we compared the performance of ... -
The Role Of Community Based Organizations In Transferring Climate Change Information: A Case Of Eastern Province Farmers Community, Rwanda
(2017)In Rwanda, agriculture is the main important sector of the economy and is the engine of growing the economy and its modernization. The change in precipitation, temperature, and extreme events such as drought and floods are ... -
Assessment Of The Role Of Microfinance Institutions In Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Perception And Their Adaptation Capacities To Climate Change In Loumbila In Burkina Faso
(2017)Burkina Faso, a low income and landlocked country located in West Africa in the Sahel with limited natural resources,will face challenging changes in temperature, rainfall,storms and extreme weather events which will ... -
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 ... -
Assessing The Capacity Of The Current Institutional Framework In Rwanda To Implement Integrated Water Resources Management (Iwrm)
(2017)Scarcity and misuse of fresh water pose a serious and growing threat to sustainable development and protection of the environment, human health, food security and industrial development. This calls for the adoption of the ... -
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 ...