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Seasonal Variations in Waterbird Diversity and Threats to the Barotse Floodplain Open

Clara Nanja, Moses Chibesa, Machaya Chomba · 2025

This study explored waterbird diversity and associated threats in the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia, a critical wetland in the Zambezi River Basin. Field surveys conducted along a 202 km transect during the cold-dry and hot-dry seasons reveal…

Influence of water quality on benthic macroinvertebrates in a groundwater-dependent wetland Open

Kawawa Banda, Victoria Ngwenya, Mulema Mataa, Innocent C. Chomba, Machaya Chomba , et al. · 2023

Benthic invertebrates communities are frequently used as indicators of aquatic ecosystem health since many species are sensitive to pollution and abrupt changes in their environment. Limited knowledge exists on the interlinkages of hydrolo…

Investigating groundwater and surface water interactions using remote sensing, hydrochemistry, and stable isotopes in the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia Open

Kawawa Banda, Mulema Mataa, Innocent C. Chomba, Machaya Chomba, Jonathan Levy , et al. · 2023

Groundwater and surface water are inseparably linked, thus the understanding of their interactions is indispensable toward developing effective conjunctive water resource management strategies, particularly for ecosystems, such as wetlands…

Land Use change and its Drivers in the Wetlands of Barotse Floodplain of Zambezi River Sub-Basin, Zambia Open

Arnold Mahonko Banda, Kawawa Banda, Enock Sakala, Machaya Chomba, Imasiku Nyambe · 2021

River floodplains such as the Barotse Flood Plain (BFP) in Western Zambia, provide a large number of ecosystem services and economic value for the inhabitants. Yet, in spite of its importance, the flood plain has been vulnerable to drivers…

A Review of Coupled Hydrologic-Hydraulic Models for Floodplain Assessments in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Floodplain Wetland Management Open

Innocent C. Chomba, Kawawa Banda, Hessel Winsemius, Machaya Chomba, Mulema Mataa , et al. · 2021

Floodplain wetlands are a fundamental part of the African continent’s ecosystem and serve as habitat for fish and wildlife species, biodiversity, and micro-organisms that support life. It is generally recognised that wetlands are and remai…

A fully coupled spatially distributed hydrologic-hydrodynamic model for the Barotse Floodplain, Upper Zambezi Open

Innocent C. Chomba, Kawawa Banda, Hessel Winsemius, Eunice Makungu, Denis Hughes , et al. · 2021

<p>Floodplains play important roles in global hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and many socioeconomic activities also depend on water resources in floodplains. Although considered as critical for the formation and preservation…

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…

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 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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