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Kenya' tourism industry is predominantly based on nature and founded on protected areas (PAs) model. However, climatic changes through unstable temperature as well as rainfall patterns have the potential to cause declines in wildlife populations in these PAs. Climate change poses exceptional social, cultural as well as environmental challenges. In Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), a combined number of factors including climate change, human population pressure on wildlife...

The global population of people with disabilities is estimated to be around one billion which represents 15% of the population. It is further estimated that the majority of people with disabilities are found in developing countries to which the majority are women. Adding on to the challenge, 82% percent of disabled people live below the poverty line and can barely employ sustainable means of earning a living and neither can they widen livelihood options due to their circumstances. Thus, they...

Science, technology, and innovation (STI) are generally accepted as major drivers of growth and can help address poverty and directly improve the well-being of different groups in society. However, under certain circumstances, STI can reinforce social exclusion and inequalities. This book explores discourses around directionality and the importance of Innovation for Inclusive Development (IID) in addressing policy questions that explore the relationship between IID with inequalities in...

Environmental Law and Policy in Namibia , Seite 561 - 606

Die Zahl der Klimaklagen – Klagen mit denen bestimmte private oder öffentliche Akteure für ihren Beitrag zum Klimawandel haftbar gemacht werden sollen – hat in letzter Zeit stark zugenommen, wobei die Erfolgsquote relativ gering ausfällt. Dies unterstreicht den Bedarf nach wissenschaftlicher Forschung zur gerechten Verteilung von Verantwortung für Klimaschutz und Anpassungsmaßnahmen. Vor diesem Hintergrund vereint dieses Buch renommierte Forscher und Forscherinnen aus verschiedenen...

Broadening participation in STEM for traditionally underrepresented groups has been the focus of numerous initiatives designed to diversify the STEM workforce. As a result of these initiatives, a number of research studies have identified factors that influence the persistence of African Americans in STEM graduate programs. Research studies on persistence and broadening participation for African Americans in STEM graduate programs emphasizes the role of undergraduate research programs,...

There is an excellent opportunity to ensure that information security culture (ISU) is embedded in school children before they are employed in the industry. However, for the majority of time spent in primary and secondary school education, pupils are alienated from supervised use of technology, making it difficult to teach pupils proper use of technology. Thus, there is no deliberate effort to empower and impart ISC to school pupils in Zimbabwe. The purpose of this study is to develop a...

Abstract The concentrations of Three metallic elements, cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn), have been evaluated in thirteen groundwater sampling points (from open wells) located near industrial, domestic and agricultural dumps of the Amizour plain (North Algeria). The contamination factor (Fc), the contamination degree (Dc), and heavy metal pollution index (HPI) were the models evaluated in aim to estimate the groundwater quality and the potential sources of trace metallic-elements...

World and African agricultural production, in particular, are of increasing concern to the major international organizations in charge of nutrition. The World Food Programme has reported that high population growth worldwide and in Africa in particular in recent years is leading to increased food security. Moreover, farmers and agricultural decision-makers need advanced tools to help them make quick decisions that will impact the quality of agricultural yields. A great phenomenon of climate...

The quality of education process depends on the teacher ability to innovate and his performance. The strengthening of the teacher's abilities leads to a great upliftment in the educational standards of the country. There is a belief that innovationInnovations approaches are needed to create this huge change in the educational level. InnovationInnovations is the ability to think in a new way to create something different from the one that exists. The teacher molds the student's mind and no...

The chapter appraises transformation as a tool to promote inclusive education using the philosophy of Ubuntu as a framework for reforming African higher education. The general guiding question relates to whether African higher education considers African philosophy in its policies. Transformation does not only refer to structural changes but also entails ensuring that the knowledge transferred relates to the local context and considers access by all and that all are treated with dignity and...

The paper takes a closer look into critical thinking in Yemen. It navigates critical thinking in Yemeni graphic design undergraduate education. This paper tackles the lack of research in the areas of critical thinking as Yemen has not traditionally encouraged or utilized critical thinking in graphic design education. Within design, a field of study where critical thinking is required to create solutions to existing and new problems, a range of culturally relevant solutions for problems are...

Low income earning workers such as the teachers in the public secondary schools, are faced with varying categories of financial risk which cannot e alleviated without the help of some other social arrangement such as micro-insurance schemes. However, these scheme has not been well accepted among the teachers. The study however, looked at the reasons for the low acceptability. A stratified simple random sampling technique was used to collect data from a sample of 384 secondary school teachers...

The aim of school autonomy is to improve the education quality by independence and flexibility in managing existing resources.Regardless of this trend, amazingly little is known about how schools use autonomy in practice, and there were many controversies regarding the relationship between school autonomy and students' academic achievement.Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the magnitude of relationship between the areas of school autonomy and students' academic achievement...

The purpose of the study was to delve into the challenges faced in the use of e-learning at the University of Ghana. In all, 190 graduate students were selected for the study. The main instrument used for data gathering was questionnaires. The findings revealed that when using the SAKAI LMS, graduate students encounter issues such as poor internet access, lack of computer skills among others. In comparison to their male counterparts, female graduate students faced many obstacles when using...

The paper discussed the problems facing basic education in Somalia and proposes solutions. The article shows that the basic education budgets of the national and regional governments increase every year. However, the budget is only allocated for the management and educational policies, not for increasing the enrolment in basic education. The point of the article is that special consideration should be given to basic education. The study indicates that basic education in Somalia is very low...