Letter from David Livingstone to Captain Washington
Letter from David Livingstone to Captain Washington

Author: David Livingstone

Publisher:

Published: 1859

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Livingstone's letter to Washington is a beautiful description of the land north of the Zambezi along the Shire River (in modern day Malawi). He writes that the expedition "created considerable alarm, the people never having been visited by white men," but that their overwhelming friendliness encouraged the expedition to continue North. He describes Lake Shirwa (Lake Chilwa) and a nearby mountain called Dzomba, pronounced Zomba. He writes that there are rumors of a larger lake to the north (Lake Malawi), but that the words for lake, water and river are similar in the local language, and that causes confusion.?

Lake Chilwa
Lake Chilwa

Author: M. Kalk

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9400995946

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Leonard C. Beadle In contrast to the more sta bie oceans, inland waters are, on the geological time scale, short-lived and are subject to great fluctuations in chemical composition and physical features. Very few lakes and rivers have existed continuously for more than a million years, and the life of the majority is to be measured in thousands or less. Earth movements, erosion and long-term climatic changes in the past have caused many of them to appear and disappear. No wonder then that most freshwater organism are especially adapted to great changes and many even to temporary extinction of their environment. Recent studies of residual sediments from existing and extinct lakes in tropical Africa have told us much about their age and the past history of their faunas and floras, from which we may deduce something about the climate and the conditions in the water in the past. The forces that have formed and moulded the African Great Lakes have been catastrophic in their violence and effects. They are not yet finished, but the present rate of change is, in human terms, too slow for direct observation of the ecological effects. The large man-made lakes are providing very good opportunities for studying the chemi cal and biological consequences of the initial filling but, once filled, they are artificially protected against major fluctuations.

Socio-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change in a Fragile Ecosystem
Socio-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change in a Fragile Ecosystem

Author: Sosten Chiotha

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-13

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1351057081

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The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017. The programme was designed to protect the livelihoods of the population and enhance resilience of the natural resource base upon which it depends. The Lake Chilwa Basin is an important wetland ecosystem which is a designated Ramsar Site under the Ramsar Wetland Convention and a Man and Biosphere Reserve designated by UNESCO. This book provides a review of the research and programme interventions done based on the ecosystem approach (EA), a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources. This is designed to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way in its implementation of mitigation and climate change adaptation interventions. It is shown how: local and district institutions were strengthened to better manage natural resources and build resilience to climate change; cross-basin and cross-sector natural resource management and planning for climate change throughout the Basin were built; household and enterprise adaptive capacity in Basin hotspots was built; and improved forest management and governance contributed in mitigating the effects of climate change. The study followed all the twelve key EA principles with involvement of all key stakeholders. It is one of the first programmes to apply EA on such a wide temporal and spatial scale and provides key lessons to be learned for the protection of other fragile ecosystems in an era of climate change.

Science
Science

Author: John Michels

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 1018

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.