RETRACTED: Stakeholders’ Perceptions of the Problem of Wetland Degradation in the Ugandan Lake Victoria Basin Uganda

Alice Were Nakiyemba¹, Moses Isabirye¹, Jean Poesen², Jozef Deckers², Erik Mathijs²

¹Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Busitema University, Tororo, Uganda.
²Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

DOI: 10.4236/nr.2020.115014                

Abstract

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Keywords

Stakeholders, Perceptions, Wetland Degradation, Lake Victoria, Uganda

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