Chronic flooding is one major annual disaster, whose effects have not been sparing the residents in Kuku, a low cost residential area in the urban District of Lusaka. It has been attributed by both natural and manmade factors such as the inability of the residential area to drain water, change of...
Download PDF ↓The problem of sedimentation and drying-up of rivers is very pronounced globally, continentally, and nationally. In Southern Zambia and, Lusitu River Catchment in particular, sedimentation and eventual drying up of the river during most parts of the year punctuated diverse environmental and...
Download PDF ↓Reservoir sedimentation is one of the temporally and spatially distributed challenges facing managers of small reservoirs today. Fluvial system formed the geomorphological plinth of the study. The study was motivated by the problem of sedimentation in the Makoye Reservoir (about 60500 m2 ), which...
Download PDF ↓Reservoir sedimentation is one of the temporally and spatially distributed challenges facing managers of small reservoirs today. Fluvial system formed the geomorphological plinth of the study. The study was motivated by the problem of sedimentation in the Makoye Reservoir (about 60500 m2), which...
Download PDF ↓Mining is considered to be the world’s most valued anthropogenic activity. For instance, in Zambia, mining is one of the most important economic sectors and contributes significantly to its Gross Domestic Product.On the other hand, it is recognised as being responsible for heavy metal soil and...
Mining is considered to be the world’s most valued anthropogenic activity. For instance, in Zambia, mining is one of the most important economic sectors and contributes significantly to its Gross Domestic Product.On the other hand, it is recognised as being responsible for heavy metal soil and...
Solid Waste Management (SWM) continues to be a major concern in Zambia. As such, the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ), through the Ministry of Local Government and Housing (MLGH) in 2004 instituted the Make Zambia Clean and Healthy (MZCH) campaign aimed, in part, at enhancing solid...
Dambos are depressions that are waterlogged and grass covered and these are surrounded by savanna woodland. In Zambia, there is no clear legislation on the protection, conservation and management of wetlands including dambos. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the physical...
Download PDF ↓Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) has become a serious threat to the survival of many endangered species in the world. The sighted examples from different countries such as Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zanzibar, Namibia, China and Peru demonstrate the severity of the conflict and suggest that greater in depth...
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