African Journal of Environment and Disaster Management

African Journal of Environment and Disaster Management

The African Journal of Environment and Disaster Management (AJEDM) is a biannual, peer-reviewed and scholarly journal of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Dodoma. The Journal is fully open access that offers a platform to advance innovative and interdisciplinary research in the broader fields of Geography and Disaster Risk Management within the African continent. AJEDM publishes original research that is grounded in theory and empirics, establishing relationships within the broader themes of the Journal.

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Author guidelines

Author Guidelines

Please read these guidelines carefully before you proceed with the submission of your article to AJEDM. Any submission which does not conform to Journal Scope, Authorship Policies, Ethical Guidelines and other policies Shall not be accepted by the Journal. Do not refer to any published article to format your work; use these guidelines to prepare your paper for submission.

Formatting your manuscript

File Format	Microsoft Word Format
Font Type & Size	Times New Roman, Font size 12
Article length	The length of a journal article should be between 6,000 – 10,000 words, including abstracts, main text, tables, figures, notes, references and appendices. Shorter contributions and book reviews should not be more than 4,000 words. All text should be in Times New Roman with page numbers centred at the bottom of the page.
Text alignment	Article abstract should be indented Main text should be justified except for headings and subheadings (in bold) First-level headings should be bolded and numbered in Arabic numerals (eg. 1, 2, 3, e.t.c) Second-level headings (sub-headings) should be bold but not numbered, third level headings should be italicised (not bold)
Language	The Journal prefers the use of English (United Kingdom) language. It is highly advised that authors engage professional language editors to go through the manuscripts before submission
Title	Provide a concise title of your article
Abstract	Provide the abstract of your research article, between 200 and 250 words. Among others, it should outline the main argument(s), the research approach/methods and highlight key contributions. The abstract should be indented.
Key words	Provide 3 to 5 keywords that capture key issues discussed and that can easily help to make your article to be easily recoverable

Notes/footnote	Footnotes and end notes should be kept to a minimum. They should be in 10 font sizes numbered in Arabic numerals
Tables & Figures	Tables and Figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals with the caption placed on the top (for the tables) and at the bottom (for figures). Where appropriate, the sources should be specified. All illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate sections.
Citation and referencing Style	References should follow APA 7th reference guide but in line with the following formatting: Intext citation (at the beginning or in the middle of the sentence) · Bukula (2024) for a single author · Bukula & Ringo (2024) for two authors · Bukula et al. (2024) for three authors and above. Note, “et al” should be in italics. Intext citation (at the end of the sentence) (Bukula, 2024) · (Bukula & Ringo, 2024) · (Bukula et al., 2024) Citation for more than one work · (Rodrick, 2021; John, 2022; Tenge & Mwakipesile, 2023; Mwakipesile, et al., 2024) Where direct quotation has been used, page number(s) should be added in the following format: Mwakipesile(2022:10)-when the material are quoted from a single page, or Mwakipesile (2022:10-12)- if page ranges are involved. For multiple publications by the same author(s) in the same year, the citation in the text should be distinguished using lower case alphabets separated by commas, e.g., Sharma 1960a,b It is encouraged that, in edited volume, cite a respective author(s) of articles/chapters in the book and not editors of the book
References		References should be indented and should strictly observe the following format:
Journal Article (Single Author)		Shayo, D.P. (2022). Digitalising Democracy. Journal of African Politics, 2(2):1-38.
Journal Article (Two Authors)		Makunja, A.B., & Mukama, A. (2022). Democracy and Development, Journal of Social Sciences, 3(1):60-90.
Journal Article (More than Two Authors)		Pendo, P., Changalawe, H., Makula, A.B., & Mgeta, A. (2022). Democracy and Development, Journal of African Politics, 3(1):60-90.
Journal Article with a DOI		Bannet, S. A. (2005). Exploring psychosocial disorders among primary school children: a qualitative approach. Journal of Public Health, 9, 489. https://doi.org/10.1786/1771-2558- 9-382.
Journal Article with an Article Number		Mihayo, E., & Jackson, J. (2019). Belief in constructivism approach: implication on psychosocial skills. PLoS Two, 14(12): Article e0325974. https://doi.org/10.2371/journal.pone.0335864.
Book (Single Author)		Kessy, A. (2023). Local Government in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press.
Multiple publications by the same author(s) in the same year		Examples Sharma, A.B. (1960a). The theory of commons. Conservation and Society 1: 52–53. Sharma, A.B. (1960b). The commons in southern India. Ph.D. thesis. Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
Book (Two Authors)		Bleck, J., & Van de Walle, N. (2018). Electoral Politics in Africa since 1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book (More than two Authors)		Bee, K., Celin, H. B., & Brian, I. S. (2013). Information Behaviour Concept: A Basic Introduction. New Jersey: University of Life Press.
Book: Organisation as Author		Tanzania Institute of Education. (2015). Standards for educational Management. Dar es salaam: Government Printers.
E-book		Ludovic, T. (2004). The developmental social psychology of children. Children Associates. https://chid.ulm.ac.id/741/record=b1890622.
Chapter from an E-book		Jones, N. A., & Wilson, C. M. (2008). The neurophysiology for mental health. In G. D. Genes & P. W. R. Windhoek (Eds.), Empathy in mental disorder. Dublin University Press. https://lib.ugm.ac.id:363/record=b2130404.
Book Chapter		Ndulu B.J., Mbowe W.E., and Hunter E. (2019). “Ethnicity, citizenry and national building in Tanzania”. In: Hino H, Langer A, Lonsdale J and Stewart F. (eds), From divided pasts to cohesive futures: Reflections on Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: pp. 98–122.
Article in an encyclopedia		Gothbert, D. (2007). Physiotherapy. In E. Paschal & T. Murrel (Eds.), Gale encyclopedia of physical disorders (Vol.3, pp. 326-428). Gale.
Conference paper		Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007).
Paper Presentation from the Internet		Wrightt, S. (2016, March 25-26). What is the use of 3d user interfaces, and can we continue using? [Paper presentation]. ILEL Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, Entebbe, VA. https://doi.org/11.2309/VR.2016.149.
Unpublished Paper Presentation		Adolph, Z., & Newcastle, Y. (2014, June). Integrated waste management system [Paper presentation]. Environmental Conservation Symposium, Adis Ababa.
Newspaper Article in Print		Kissanga, T. (2004, October 5). Covid 19 Pandemic: What strategies can we use to overcome health crisis? The Guardian: Extra, p. 6.
Newspaper Article with URL		Mahenge, H. (2010, January 28). Construction of new classrooms offers hope to increased enrolment. Daily News. http://www.dailynewsonline/tol/news/online/education/article8115302.ece.
Published Thesis		May, B. (2017) A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud. Canopus Publishing.
Unplublished Thesis/dissertation		Venance, T. (2015). Language for life [PhD thesis], University of Dar es salaam].
Note: Use APA 7th Referencing Guide on how to reference other sources not listed here. For books, AJEDM, a place of publication must be indicated.

Submitting Your Article

All articles shall be submitted through the editorial system. Before submitting your manuscript, make sure:

It complies with the AJEDM’s publication ethical guidelines and formatting guidelines;
You have omitted any information that may identify you as the author. All files containing your name (e.g. title pages, biographic notes) should be uploaded separately;
The paper is in line with the Journal's aims and scope

First, register and create author account (if you are submitting for the first time to this Journal) or login to an existing account if you are already a User. Your username shall be your email address. If You have forgotten your password, click forgot password and an email will be sent to you with a link to set-up a new password.

Starting Submission

On starting your submission, read and acknowledge that you've completed the requirements (as outlined in Journal Policies).

Uploading submission

Add a file you want to upload, beginning with the title page. A title page is a separate document containing the title of the article and author(s) details). Then, click “Edit” to select the type of document added i.e. Title Page
Add the main document (the whole article without author details) and select Article Text as your document type. The article text can be the research paper, conceptual paper, literature review, case study and general review, book review or viewpoint.
Add any other document(s) if any, e.g. acknowledgement by following the same procedure.
Make sure you select the appropriate file type for all the files you added before proceeding to another step.

Entering Bibliographic Metadata

Fill in the metadata information. These will include author details, institutional affiliation and email address. Make sure all contributors with their email addresses are added. Then save and continue.

Confirming your submission

After your submission has been uploaded and is ready to be sent, you can click “Finish Submission” to complete your submission. Please note that, you can only go back to review your submission before clicking “Finish Submission.” If you want to change something, make sure you do it before attempting this stage.

After submission

You will receive an email confirming that your article has been submitted to the Editor.
The editorial desk will check your article for compliance with author guidelines and whether it suffices for admission for peer review.
If the article passes editorial scrutiny, it will be forwarded to two anonymous peer reviewers. If not, it will be outrightly dismissed. Either way, you will be notified by email.
Based on reviewers’ feedback, the Editor will either decide to accept your manuscript, request minor or major revisions, OR reject your work.
You should expect the first decision within 60 days. If not, please login into our system to see the status of your article.

Revising Your manuscript

Once the decision is made, you will be given time to work on reviewers’ comments and submit a revised manuscript. It is your duty to make sure that all comments are addressed diligently and responded to accordingly. Submission of revisions should observe given timelines. If you need more time to work on your revision, you should consult the Editor through editor.ajedm@udom.ac.tz immediately after receiving the editor’s decision.
In submitting a revised manuscript, the revisions/changes made should be in coloured text or highlighted by colour highlighter or both. Also, you should prepare a matrix table responding to the comments:

Post-revision

Upon receiving a revised manuscript, editors will check your work to see whether the review queries have been adequately addressed. In case of major revisions, editors may forward the revised manuscript to the same reviewers or assign a third reviewer for further confirmation.
If there are additional comments from the reviewers, you will be asked to work on them and submit a second revision.

Copyright & licencing issues

If your article is accepted, you will be notified and sent a contributor agreement form that will address licence and copyright issues. You will be asked to sign and return a copyright agreement form, in this case:
You will be required to check your author details and confirm whether they are correct.
You will retain Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user license
You will be allowed to keep the copyright of the paper but grant publication rights to AJEDM

Production process

After submitting the licence form, the production process of your article will begin. This will involve editorial checks, copyediting and typesetting.
The proof will then be returned to you. You will be asked to work on the proofs and return a corrected paper within two business days. This will be the last opportunity for you to correct typographical errors, grammatical errors or incorrect author details. Extensive changes after this stage are strictly not accepted.
Finalised articles may be published online as “online first articles” before being assigned to the issue and volume. A full issue will be published as per the issue schedule. All articles will be assigned DOI after being assigned to issue.
You will be emailed a link of your published article

After Publication

You are highly encouraged to share the web-link of your article into your networks so that your work can have more impact.

Editorial team

Editorial Team

Chief Editor

Dr. Enock Makupa, The University of Dodoma

Assistant Editors:

Dr. Mathew Bukhi Mabele, The University of Dodoma
Dr. Iddi R. Mwanyoka, The University of Dodoma

Editorial Office

Journal Administrator:

Dr. Wilhelm Kiwango,

The University of Dodoma

P.O.Box 259, 3 Social Street CHSS Building- Ground Floor

41218 Iyumbu, Dodoma

Editorial Board

Prof. Dan Brockington, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Prof. Abiud Kaswamila, The University of Dodoma
Prof. Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda, Sokoine University of Agriculture
Dr. Stanley Mubako, California Department of Water Resources, Division of Statewide Integrated Water Management, USA
Dr. Kalista Higin, The University of Dodoma
Dr. Verdiana Tulimanywa University of Dar es Salaam

Dr. Kelvin Oswin Haule, The University of Dodoma.

Advisory Board

Prof. Emmanuel Acquah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

William Mwegoha, Mzumbe University, Tanzania

Philani Moyo The University of Fort Hare (South Africa)

Eria Serwajja, Department of Development Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Karolina Wallin Fernqvist Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Joyce Nyalanga Omwoha Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Technical University of Kenya

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About the Journal

Online ISSN: 3108-8937 Print ISSN: 3108-8929

The African Journal of Environment and Disaster Management (AJEDM) is a biannual, peer-reviewed and scholarly journal of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Dodoma. The Journal is fully open access that offers a platform to advance innovative and interdisciplinary research in the broader fields of Geography and Disaster Risk Management within the African continent. AJEDM publishes original research that is grounded in theory and empirics, establishing relationships within the broader themes of the Journal.

Aim and Scope

The nbsp Journal aims nbsp to publish original, innovative and timely research that focuses on the nbsp advancement of theory and practice in all themes related to Environment and Disaster Management. Within its international outlook, the journal publishes articles in nbsp specific and related nbsp fields of natural resources management, biodiversity conservation, climate change, conservation education, environmental policy, environmental governance, disaster risk reduction, urban studies, nbsp and population studies. Since African scholars and scholarship in the subfields of geography, environmental studies and disaster risk management are usually underrepresented in international academic journals, we encourage submissions based nbsp on research and scholarly works conducted in and about Africa. Submissions may range from original research articles, review articles, book reviews, perspectives, letters and responses to the editor, field research notes and special issues focusing on the exploration of emergent and or critical areas of interest for African scholarship.

This journal s readership is expected to be members in academia, researchers, university students, practitioners, policy and decision makers in the natural and built environment, population, nbsp disaster risk management, biodiversity conservation, climate change and sustainability.

Editorial Policies

Peer Review Policy

All manuscripts submitted to AJEDM will be subjected to a double-blind review process, in upholding quality and international standards. Manuscripts will initially be assessed by the editors to determine suitability for publication in the AJEDM in terms of scientific quality and adherence to the aims, scope and format of the journal. If a submission is deemed suitable, it will be sent to a minimum of two reviewers in the relevant fields for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality, methodological rigor and advancement of African scholarship. The editors will then make a decision to either accept or reject the article.

For special issues, the peer review process is the same as for regular submissions. However, a guest editor for the special issue will send the submissions out to the reviewers and may recommend a decision to the Chief editor. The journal editor oversees the peer review process of all special issues to ensure the high standards of publishing ethics and responsiveness are respected and is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles.

Open Access Policy

AJEDM is an open-access journal subscribing to the Open Access definition by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Articles published in this Journal will be freely available. The University of Dodoma covers all publication costs, and authors will not be required to pay Article Processing Charges (APC).

Copyrights and Licencing

Authors will be allowed to retain the copyright of their materials and grant first publication rights to AJEDM. All works will be licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user license. The Corresponding Author will be required to sign an agreement form that will address license and copyright issues.

Authorship and contributions

The corresponding author must ensure that authorship and contribution, including the ordering, are agreed upon by contributors before submission. Submission of a manuscript to AJEDM means that all authors have consented to their authorship. The corresponding author should ensure that only persons who significantly contributed to the paper's authorship are included. For clarity, authors must meet the following criteria to be named as an author:

They should have substantially contributed to: i) the conception or design of the research; ii) the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data compiled for the research, and

Drafted the manuscript and worked on subsequent revisions following peer review input, and

Approved the final version of the manuscript prior to publication, and

Agreed to be accountable for the accuracy and integrity of the research presented in the manuscript, and responsible for answering any related questions that may arise after publication.

The corresponding author must add all the contributors, their addresses, institutional affiliations and their Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) numbers during submission. The corresponding author must include an author contribution statement at the end of the manuscript.

Declaration of competing interests

Authors, editors and reviewers will be required to disclose any competing interest they might have on a particular manuscript. AJEDM subscribes to COPE's definition of conflict of interest, stating that: “Conflicts of interest arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that are not fully apparent and that may influence their judgments on what is published.” The author who fails to disclose his/her conflict of interests will be deemed to have violated the Journal’s publication policies.

Handling of complaints

The Chief Editor will handle all complaints on publication processes and will be responsible for providing timely feedback about the complaints raised. Complaints regarding author's research misconduct i.e. violation of research or publication ethics, will be referred to the Editorial Board. If the Editor engages in research misconduct, please submit your complaint direct to the Director of Research, Publications and Consultancy of the University of Dodoma (Email: drpc@udom.ac.tz). The Director will investigate the matter and take appropriate action.

All allegations of research misconduct brought to the attention of AJEDM before or after the publication will be handled seriously. A whistleblower who chooses to remain anonymous will not be disclosed. All allegations will be investigated, including allowing the author to explain, justify or defend against the accusations. If allegations against the author are proven, the publication of his/her paper will be terminated/unpublished. Author(s) who have participated in academic dishonesty will be barred from publishing their future works with AJEDM.

The Journal retains the right to remove any published content from its website if it establishes contributor violation of research/publication ethics.

Ethical issues

AJEDM envisions publishing high-quality research outputs and is committed to the highest standards of research integrity and publication ethics. Editors, technical members, reviewers and authors shall observe the ethical guidance outlined on Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) website.

Prospective authors seeking to submit their manuscripts for consideration by AJEDM shall adhere to the following ethical guidelines:

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration unless it is a pre-print or conference proceeding and an explanation has been provided in comments to the Editor. AJEDM participates in Crossref Similarity Check. All submissions will be screened by iThenticate. Articles with a Similarity Index above 15% will not be considered except under the circumstances provided above.

It is author(s’) original work.

Research clearances and ethical approval were obtained.

Where necessary, permissions for third-party materials used in the work have been obtained.

Only persons who meaningfully contributed to the paper have been included.

All contributors are aware of the submission and the corresponding author provides their addresses and institutional affiliations to the AJEDM

All conflicts of interest have been declared.

Data presented are genuine and do not involve falsification or fabrication.

If accepted, the article will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Financial disclosures

Financial Disclosures: Each author must individually declare all sources of funding they received for the research presented in the manuscript. This information includes:

names of funding agencies and specific grant number

Initials of authors who received the grants

If the research received no specific grant from any funding agency, this must be stated, e.g., “This research was not funded by any agency".