Browsing Theses by Subject "Kenya"
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Decanting and Social Sustainability: Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (A Case Study)
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)By the year 2030, over half of the global population will reside in cities. The impacts of this trend are most notable among nations within the global south, which are experiencing rapid urbanization, due to forced ... -
Deep decarbonization pathways, strategies, governance, actors and roadblocks in cities: Climate change mitigation perspectives from selected Sub-Saharan African Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-30)The complex and multidimensional effect of climate change, coupled with low socioeconomic development in sub-Saharan Africa, makes the region vulnerable to changing climate and threatens its inhabitants' survival, livelihood ... -
Experiments in governance and citizenship in Kenya’s resource frontier
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-29)Over the past four years, natural resource exploration and development have rapidly expanded across northern Kenya and, as a result, the region is in the midst of a frontier-making project that may have seemed unimaginable ... -
The Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on Health and Wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A Case Study of Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-20)Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) remain endemic to many regions of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) left behind by socioeconomic progress. As such, these diseases are a proxy for extreme poverty and inequitable access in the ... -
Land Tenure, Ecotourism, and Sustainable Livelihoods: 'Living on the Edge' of the Greater Maasai Mara, Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-19)Since its introduction into mainstream society two decades ago, ecotourism has become an international phenomenon. Claimed by its proponents to endorse ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable travel to natural ... -
Mud and Cell Phones: Nonformal Learning Networks in Rural Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-08)Despite global efforts to achieve universal education, millions of people still lack access to learning, with a high concentration in sub-Saharan African countries. Like many rural communities around the world, Kenya’s ... -
Threads of Memory: A Culture of Commemoration in Kenya Colony, 1918-1930
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-05)The centenary of the First World War (2014-2018) proffered new interpretations of the conflict as a global war that stretched far beyond the Western Front. Historians of the Great War, however, have continued to characterize ... -
Waste as Resource: Recycling housing components in the informal settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-15)Amidst rapid urbanization, large self-built settlements such as Kibera in the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya, confront numerous environmental crises like flooding, alongside critical issues like limited nutrition, overall ...