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Lake Chivero: A management case study
Author(s) -
Magadza C. H. D.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
lakes and reservoirs: research and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.296
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1440-1770
pISSN - 1320-5331
DOI - 10.1046/j.1320-5331.2003.00214.x
Subject(s) - jurisdiction , urbanization , accountability , environmental planning , competition (biology) , politics , eutrophication , climate change , natural resource economics , geography , political science , business , environmental resource management , environmental science , economics , economic growth , ecology , law , nutrient , biology
Lake Chivero in Zimbabwe was shown to be hypereutrophic. Historical data showed that the eutrophication process had been arrested in the late 1970s. However, a combination of poor planning, multiplicity of jurisdiction, mismatch between rate of urbanization and waste management investment, recent changes in the local climate and a permissive, immature political system that called for no public accountability resulted in environmental management breakdown leading to hypereutrophication of the lake. The case of Lake Chivero is presented as an example of a wider global issue regarding the status of environmental management in competition with other priorities in emerging democracies.