Long-term climate impact on the Lake Victoria region influences water level fluctuation and resource availability

Agris On-line Papers in Economics and Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1717-1732

  Tungaraza, Clavery ^a   Eliapenda, Elisante ^a   Osewe, Kajitanus O ^b   Palapala, Paul M ^c  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b Ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries   (Tanzania)

^c Family Poverty Elimination ^*  (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Climate impact; Community livelihood; Lake victoria; Model predictions; Water recession

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKE WATER; RAINFALL; REGIONAL PATTERN; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; WATER LEVEL;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; TANZANIA;

EID: 84862744851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18041930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6088/ijes.002020300055     Document Type: Article

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