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Browsing Uganda Forestry Resources and Institutions Center (UFRIC) Collections by Author "Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S."
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    Community-based forest resource management in East Africa
    (UFRIC, 2000) Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Abwoli, Y. Banana
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    Decentralization of forestry resources in Uganda: realities or rhetoric?
    ( 1999) Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Bahati, Joseph
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    Early detection of tropical forest degradation: an IFIU pilot study in Uganda.
    (Environmental conservation, 1995) Becker, Dustin C. ; Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S.
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    Effective monitoring of decentralised forest resources in East Africa
    ( 2000-05-31) Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Bahati, Joseph ; Kajembe, G. ; Kihiyo, V. ; Ongugo, P.
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    Explaining deforestation: the role of local institutions in Ugandan forests: a policy brief
    (UFRIC, 2001-08) Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Bahati, Joseph
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    Indigenous technical knowledge and forest management: A case study of sacred groves (Traditional Forest Reserves), Mpigi District, Uganda
    (UFRIC, 1997) Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S.
    The high rate of deforestation and degradation of the environment in Uganda are dangerous obstacles to sustainable management of forests and trees in the country and therefore require urgent and consolidated effort of all concerned to address them. So a research study of indigenous knowledge and how such knowledge can be used to conserve the environment is an effort in the right direction. Indigenous knowledge was studied using the Traditional Forest Reserves (TFRs) in Mpigi District, Central Uganda. TFRs are very small forests in size as compared to the government forest reserves. They are governed by non-modern knowledge vis-a-vis modern, scientific knowledge used in management of government forest reserves. Historically, non-modern knowledge has been repressed and unrecognized despite its frequent successes in conserving natural resources. For example, indigenous knowledge can be crucial in community forestry development programs because it involves systems of institutions developed through generation, of self-management that can govern resource use. Several community forestry projects have failed because implementors have not understood the social aspects of such local institutions. As a result they have instead built new institutions that have replaced or undermined the indigenous ones. With the current rate of deforestation in Uganda, a consolidated joint effort of both systems of knowledge (non-modern and modern) for forest/tree resource use and management is essential. However, it is not the purpose of this study to define the best way of integrating indigenous knowledge into scientific knowledge and vice-versa. A total of thirteen TFRs were covered by the study, of which six (6) were not under immediate threat of deforestation, four (4) were under immediate threat, and three (3) were completely deforested. The TFRs are facing increased threat of deforestation for a number of reasons, the most important one being the replacement of non-modern institutions by modem ones. Probably, the challenge for natural resource managers of today might be the interface between local institutions and the formal state institutions.
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    Integrating remote sensing data and rapid appraisals for land-cover change analyses in Uganda
    (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-08-05) Vogt, N. ; Bahati, Joseph ; Unruh, J. ; Green, G. ; Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Sweeney, S.
    Rapid population growth, unsustainable land use, and a pervasively degrading landscape are components of a dominant paradigm regarding African development. While recent work articulating the 'misreading' of the African landscape have begun to challenge this paradigm, much work remains regarding the pervasiveness and character of this misread. A method is presented for investigating mechanisms of land-cover change that combines remotely sensed data, archival data, and rapid appraisals in a way less influenced by dominant paradigms.We present a case where increasing human activity is resulting in accumulationof woody biomass on edaphic grasslands of a forest-grassland mosaic, rather than the expansion of grasslands at the expense of forests as is currently understood in that area. These increases in biomass are stimulated by anthropogenic influences that are shaped by institutional and edaphic factors. We do not claim that resources are being pervasively enhanced across sub-Saharan Africa under conditions of population growth, but that there may be many mechanisms of change, resulting in both degradation and enhancement, occurring simultaneously across sub-Saharan Africa or even intra-regionally within a nation under these conditions. The integration and application of these methods serve to improve applied analyses of land-cover change to better characterize these mechanisms, and avoid the wrong policy prescriptions. Copyright (Q 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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    Integrating remote sensing data and rapid appraisals for land-cover change analyses in Uganda
    (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) Vogt, N. ; Green, G. ; Unruh, J. ; Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Sweeney, S. ; Bahati, Joseph
    Rapid population growth, unsustainable land use, and a pervasively degrading landscape are components of a dominant paradigm regarding African development. While recent work articulating the 'misreading' of the African landscape have begun to challenge this paradigm, much work remains regarding the pervasiveness and character of this misread. A method is presented for investigating mechanisms of land-cover change that combines remotely sensed data, archival data, and rapid appraisals in a way less influenced by dominant paradigms. We present a case where increasing human activity is resulting in accumulation of woody biomass on edaphic grasslands of a forest-grassland mosaic, rather than the expansion of grasslands at the expense of forests as is currently understood in that area. These increases in biomass are stimulated by anthropogenic influences that are shaped by institutional and edaphic factors. We do not claim that resources are being pervasively enhanced across sub-Saharan Africa under conditions of population growth, but that there may be many mechanisms of change, resulting in both degradation and enhancement, occurring simultaneously across sub-Saharan Africa or even intra-regionally within a nation under these conditions. The integration and application of these methods serve to improve applied analyses of land-cover change to better characterize these mechanisms, and avoid the wrong policy prescriptions.
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    Local governance and forest conditions: The case of forests in Mpigi District of Uganda
    ( 2004-04) Abwoli, Y. Banana ; Vogt, Nathan D. ; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William S. ; Bahati, Joseph
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