Knowledge, perceptions, impacts and roles of lakeside communities and institutions in the sustainable control of water hyacinth
The massive water hyacinth mats that covered water bodies in the 1990s hadserious social and economic impacts. They affected fishing, transportation,water quality and health of fishing communities as well as production of goodsand services of lake-based institutions (commercial establishments). At peakinfestations, the communities and institutions were aware of and participatedreadily in control effort. However, after the major collapse of hyacinth in 1998,some of them relaxed in their control efforts. The status of knowledge,perception, impacts, preparedness and role of the lakeside communities andinstitutions to control the weed has, therefore, been monitored since the majorresurgence of the weed to find out if the lakeside communities and institutionsstill perceive water hyacinth as a problem and the extent to which they areprepared to sustain control.
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Fisheries Resources Research Institute
2002
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| Subjects: | Environment, Fisheries, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35527 |
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