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Vulture poisoning in Sub-Saharan Africa and its implications for conservation planning: A systematic review Open

Vincent R. Nyirenda, Bimo A. Nkhata, Darius Phiri, Wilfred Nyirenda, Daniel Nyamphande Phiri , et al. · 2024

The Old World Vultures (OWV), constituting 16 species primarily in Africa, Europe and Asia, are currently being driven to extinction mostly by anthropogenic activities, especially poisoning. The vulture losses from poisoning caused by huma…

Water Security and the Public Trust Doctrine in South Africa Open

Bimo A. Nkhata · 2024

This chapter provides broad insights into how different levels of government have attempted to advance water security in South Africa. It does this through a review of the historical and comparative developments of the reconstruction of th…

The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance Open

Bimo A. Nkhata · 2024

In this article we examine the role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance drawing on a case study of shifts in governance on the Pongola River Floodplain in South Africa. The case study illustrates how lack of acc…

Incentives for Managing Water Demands: Lessons from the Umgeni River Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Open

Quinex W. Chiluwe, Bimo A. Nkhata, Dev Datt Tewari · 2022

This paper examines the incentives for managing water demands from a catchment or basin perspective by focusing on defined property rights dimensions. Using property rights theory, the paper has investigated the existence of relationships …

A Social Exchange Analysis of Adaptive Governance in Water Allocation Processes, the Kafue Flats, Zambia Open

Machaya Chomba, Trevor Hill, Bimo A. Nkhata, Adrian Nel · 2019

Adaptive governance is an emergent approach to water allocation that alludes to the social conditions that enable the range of interactions among actors as they agree and pursue mutually desired water allocation outcomes. Limited successfu…

Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation Open

Vincent R. Nyirenda, Bimo A. Nkhata, Oscar Tembo, Susan Siamundele · 2018

African elephants (Loxodonta africana) induce considerable crop damage risks, shocks and stresses on subsistence farmers at the wildlife-agriculture interface. In this study, we explored the social dimensions of human-elephant interactions…

Paradigms for water allocation in river basins: a society-science-practice perspective from Southern Africa Open

Machaya Chomba, Trevor Hill, Bimo A. Nkhata, Jan Janosch Förster · 2017

This paper seeks to complement ongoing discussions around water allocation by offering an analytic framework for examining the evolution of paradigms for water allocation in river basins. It traces this evolution from the hydraulic paradig…

Property rights, institutional regime shifts and the provision of freshwater ecosystem services on the Pongola River floodplain, South Africa Open

Bimo A. Nkhata, Charles Breen, D. G. Hay, Melanie Wilkinson · 2017

This paper proposes a property rights perspective to interpret institutional regime shifts in the provision of freshwater ecosystem services. Institutional regime shifts are conceived as persistent changes in the structure and function of …

Property rights and benefit sharing: a case study of the Barotse floodplain of Zambia Open

Machaya Chomba, Bimo A. Nkhata · 2016

The study sought to expose the underlying complexity of benefit sharing of ecosystem goods and services among multiple actors, using the Barotse Floodplains located in Zambia as a case study. This was based on the premise that an appreciat…

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