Grace Kagoro‐rugunda
Biographic Data
| ID | 4421364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace Kagoro‐rugunda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace |
| FAMILY NAME | Kagoro‐rugunda |
| SIGNATURE | RUGUNDA G K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mbarara University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4498-9135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Farmers’ social networks and adoption of disaster risk reduction measures
Action against the severe impacts of climate change requires strengthening the local community’s resilience to hazards such as landslides and flash floods. Therefore, improving farmers’ knowledge to adopt farm-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures is key. In addition, mountainous areas limit accessibility by external, less-facilitated government extension workers mandated for information transfer. Other informal, local social networks can …
Assessing scale reliability in citizen science motivational research
Citizen science (CS) is gaining global recognition for its potential to democratize and boost scientific research. As such, understanding why people contribute their time, energy, and skills to CS and why they (dis)continue their involvement is crucial. While several CS studies draw from existing theoretical frameworks in the psychology and volunteering fields to understand motivations, adapting these frameworks to CS research is still lagging an…
Exposure and physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards in rural environments
Inventories of natural hazards in under-reported regions
Impacts of natural hazards are on an increase globally. To mitigate these impacts, sound disaster risk reduction strategies must rely on comprehensive inventory of natural hazards. However, to date, many regions worldwide still suffer from a dearth of information. The goal of our research is to assess how, with limited means and several methods, environments that are typically under-researched can be covered with accurate information on which fur…
Disaster risk reduction measures and farmers choices
sponsorship: Special thanks to the research assistants comprised of Emile van Caenegem, Esther Namara, Collin Tweheyo, Taddeo Kyomuhendo, and Benedicto Akoraebirungi. We also thank Lysander Fockaert for generating the designs in Ngene software. We thank Engineer Kaganda Akiiki for accepting that we shoot the videos from Mugamba Organic Coffee Farm in Kabarole District. We also acknowledge the effort of all the citizen scientists who worked as fie…
Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior
Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate-related disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, partly due to land-use changes and poor adoption behavior for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures. Such behavior can be explained by poor beliefs about DRR measures due to limited access to information. Agricultural extension workers are increasingly less trusted because they tend to transfer information less targeted to DRR and have limited sp…
Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
Spatio-temporal inventory of natural hazards is a challenging task especially in rural or remote areas in the Global South where data collection at regional scale is difficult. Citizen science, i.e. involvement of no-experts in collecting information and co-creation of knowledge with experts to solve societal and environmental problems, has been suggested as a viable approach to tackle this bottleneck, although the reliability of the resulting da…
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Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
Spatio-temporal inventory of natural hazards is a challenging task especially in rural or remote areas in the Global South where data collection at regional scale is difficult. Citizen science, i.e. involvement of no-experts in collecting information and co-creation of knowledge with experts to solve societal and environmental problems, has been suggested as a viable approach to tackle this bottleneck, although the reliability of the resulting da…
Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior
Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate-related disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, partly due to land-use changes and poor adoption behavior for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures. Such behavior can be explained by poor beliefs about DRR measures due to limited access to information. Agricultural extension workers are increasingly less trusted because they tend to transfer information less targeted to DRR and have limited sp…
Assessing scale reliability in citizen science motivational research
Citizen science (CS) is gaining global recognition for its potential to democratize and boost scientific research. As such, understanding why people contribute their time, energy, and skills to CS and why they (dis)continue their involvement is crucial. While several CS studies draw from existing theoretical frameworks in the psychology and volunteering fields to understand motivations, adapting these frameworks to CS research is still lagging an…
Exposure and physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards in rural environments
Inventories of natural hazards in under-reported regions
Impacts of natural hazards are on an increase globally. To mitigate these impacts, sound disaster risk reduction strategies must rely on comprehensive inventory of natural hazards. However, to date, many regions worldwide still suffer from a dearth of information. The goal of our research is to assess how, with limited means and several methods, environments that are typically under-researched can be covered with accurate information on which fur…
Disaster risk reduction measures and farmers choices
sponsorship: Special thanks to the research assistants comprised of Emile van Caenegem, Esther Namara, Collin Tweheyo, Taddeo Kyomuhendo, and Benedicto Akoraebirungi. We also thank Lysander Fockaert for generating the designs in Ngene software. We thank Engineer Kaganda Akiiki for accepting that we shoot the videos from Mugamba Organic Coffee Farm in Kabarole District. We also acknowledge the effort of all the citizen scientists who worked as fie…
Farmers’ social networks and adoption of disaster risk reduction measures
Action against the severe impacts of climate change requires strengthening the local community’s resilience to hazards such as landslides and flash floods. Therefore, improving farmers’ knowledge to adopt farm-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures is key. In addition, mountainous areas limit accessibility by external, less-facilitated government extension workers mandated for information transfer. Other informal, local social networks can …
Environmental resource management (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Disaster risk reduction (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Landslides and related hazards (3 works) · Meteorology (3 works) · Natural hazard (3 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (2 works)