Research Articles [MEWES]: Recent submissions
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Decentralized Environmental Governance: A reflection on its role in shaping Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania
(Tropical Conservation Science, 2015-12-01)Decentralised environmental governance has become a catchy solution to environmental problems caused by the failure of traditional centralised environmental governance. It promises to transfer power and authority, improve ... -
Building Bridges between the Sciences and the Arts of Water Co-operation through Collective Action – Reflections
(Elsevier, 2014)This reflection article highlights some of the science that underpins our understanding of cooperation over shared water resources. Power dynamics, hegemony, negotiation theory, social psychology and justice, international ... -
Polycentrism and pitfalls: the formation of water users forums in the Kikuletwa catchment, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis online, 2013-05-31)Catchment forums have to address the reality that river catchments typically cover several administrative districts and have overlapping arrangements of state-led and locally created institutions. Institutional nesting has ... -
The Last Will Be First: Water Transfers from Agriculture to Cities in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania
(Water Alternatives, 2012-10)Water transfers to growing cities in sub-Sahara Africa, as elsewhere, seem inevitable. But absolute water entitlements in basins with variable supply may seriously affect many water users in times of water scarcity. This ... -
Formalization of water allocation systems and impacts on local practices in the Hingilili sub-catchment, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis online, 2013-05-31)Water scarcity caused by increased demands often leads to competition and conflict over water in many river catchments in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the local level, water users have in many places been able to solve water ... -
The fluid nature of water grabbing: the on-going contestation of water distribution between peasants and agribusinesses in Nduruma, Tanzania
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2015-08-20)This article contributes to the contemporary debate on land and water grabbing through a detailed, qualitative case study of horticultural agribusinesses which have settled in Tanzania, disrupting patterns of land and water ... -
Qualitative soil moisture assessment in semi-arid Africa – the role of experience and training on inter-rater reliability
(Copernicus Publications, 2015-08-10)Soil and water management is particularly relevant in semi-arid regions to enhance agricultural productivity. During periods of water scarcity, soil moisture differences are important indicators of the soil water deficit ... -
The dynamics between water asymmetry, inequality and heterogeneity sustaining canal institutions in the Makanya catchment, Tanzania
(IWA Publishing, 2012-10-01)It has been suggested that the collective action needed for integrated water management at larger spatial scales could be more effective and sustainable if it were built, bottom-up, on the nested arrangements by which local ... -
The Role of Statutory and Local Rules in Allocating Water between Large- and Small-Scale Irrigators in an African River Catchment
(Elsevier, 2012-01)This paper presents a case study of large- and small-scale irrigators negotiating for access to water from Nduruma River in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania. The paper shows that despite the existence of a formal statutory ... -
Water allocation and management in an emerging spate irrigation system in Makanya catchment, Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2011-09)Although spate irrigation systems are risk-prone, they can be an important component for livelihood security in semi-arid areas. Spate uses water (flood water), which upstream users often do not require, as rainfall during ... -
Pangani River Basin over time and space: On the interface of local and basin level responses
(Elsevier, 2011-09)As the pressure on the water resources mounts within a river basin, institutional innovation may occur not as a result of a planned sequence of adjustments, but arising out of the interplay of several factors. By focusing ... -
Understanding the Emergence and Functioning of River Committees in a Catchment of the Pangani Basin, Tanzania
(Water Alternatives, 2011-06)In this paper we explore the emergence and functioning of river committees (RCs) in Tanzania, which are local water management structures that allocate and solve water conflict between different water users (smallholder ... -
Assessment of water quality variation in rivers through comparative index technique and its reliability for decision making
(Tanzania Journal of Science, 2018)The National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) and Weighed Arithmetic Index (WAI) methods for water quality index (WQI) have been studied to evaluate their reliability in water quality assessment in rivers. Water samples were ... -
Differentiated Access: Challenges of Equitable and Sustainable Groundwater Exploitation in Tanzania
(Water Alternatives, 2018)Groundwater is an important resource for a large share of the global population and economies. Although groundwater dependence in most sub-Saharan African countries is relatively low at the national level, localized ... -
Transition Management for Improving the Sustainability of WASH Services in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa—An Exploration
(MDPI, 2018-11-05)This paper explores how transition management processes can be designed to address the unsustainability of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in informal settlements in cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ... -
Re-introducing Politics in African Farmer-Led Irrigation Development: Introduction to a Special Issue
(Water Alternatives, 2019-02)This introduction is a reflexive piece on the notion of farmer-led irrigation development and its politics. It highlights the way the varied contributions to the Special Issue support a shared perspective on farmerled ... -
What Proportion Counts? Disaggregating Access to Safely Managed Sanitation in an Emerging Town in Tanzania.
(MDPI, 2019-09-10)Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 sets an ambitious target of leaving no-one without adequate and equitable sanitation by 2030. The key concern is the lack of local human and financial capital to fund the collection ... -
Estimating groundwater recharge on the southern slope of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2019-12-03)This paper used three methods namely: water-table fluctuation (WTF), soil moisture balance (SMB), and chloride mass balance (CMB) to estimate groundwater recharge in a degraded Kahe catchment located on the southern slope ... -
Neither modern nor traditional: Farmer-led irrigation development in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-04)The debate around what kind of irrigation, large- or small-scale, modern or traditional, best contributes to food security and rural development continues to shape irrigation policies and development in the Global South. ... -
Supersalts Na2AlX5 (X = F, Cl): Quantum Chemical Study of the Structure, Vibration Spectra and Thermodynamic Properties
(Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology, 2017-06-27)Theoretical investigation, prediction and design of novel supersalts Na2AlX5 (X = F, Cl) have been performed. The formation of the supersalts was considered through association reactions between different building blocks: ...