Prof. Billy B Mukamuri

Qualifications:

Doctor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania. Master in Arts, University of Pennsylvania. Bachelor of Science, West Chester. Bachelors in Arts, Lagos.

Academic Appointments:

Chairperson

Research Interests:

: Social Forestry, methodological and conceptual issues related to scenario planning, local level institutional dynamics, social ecology and local perceptions on climate change

Faculty: Social And Behavioural Sciences

Department: Department of Community and Social Development

Research Category: Environment & Agriculture

Biography:

Prof Billy Mukamuri was a chairman, full-time lecturer and researcher at Centre for Applied Social Sciences. He is the current Chairman for the Department of Community and Social Development. He is still a full time lecturer and researcher in the department. His research interests are on understanding local level institutional dynamics, particularly in communal areas. He has published extensively on social forestry issues, largely from south central Zimbabwe. He also published articles on the impacts of macro-economic changes and their impacts on natural resources management and rural people’s livelihoods.

Email: bmukamuri@sociol.uz.ac.zw

Phone: +263 772112 774

Publications:

1. Gotora, S., Mukamuri, B., & Manana, K. (2021). The Potentiality for a Resilient Urban Social Forestry Programme in Zimbabwe: Lessons from Trees Planted by the Harare Municipality in the Avenues Area between 1890-2020. Journal of Urban Systems and Innovations for Resilience in Zimbabwe-JUSIRZ, 3(2), 292-316.

2. Zamasiya, B., Nyikahadzoi, K., & Mukamuri, B. B. (2020). Drivers of Level of Adaptation to Climate Change in Smallholder Farming Systems in Southern Africa: A Multi-Level Modelling Approach. African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 1-12.

3. Matseketsa, G., Mukamuri, B. B., Muboko, N., & Gandiwa, E. (2019). An Assessment of Local People’s Support to Private Wildlife Conservation: A Case of Save Valley Conservancy and Fringe Communities, Zimbabwe. Scientifica, 2019.

4. Gwatirisa, C., Chirisa, I., & Mukamuri, B. (2019). Group networking and policy implementation dynamics in Zimbabwe’s urban areas: a case of public sanitation in harare. Journal of Public Administration and Development Alternatives (JPADA), 4(2), 33-48.

5. Zanamwe, C., Gandiwa, E., Muboko, N., Kupika, O. L., & Mukamuri, B. B. (2018). Ecotourism and wildlife conservation-related enterprise development by local communities within Southern Africa: Perspectives from the greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation, South-Eastern Lowveld, Zimbabwe. Cogent Environmental Science, 4(1), 1531463.

6. Zamasiya, B., Nyikahadzoi, K., & Mukamuri, B. B. (2017). Factors influencing smallholder farmers' behavioural intention towards adaptation to climate change in transitional climatic zones: A case study of Hwedza District in Zimbabwe. Journal of environmental management, 198, 233-239.

7. Ndengu, M., De Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Pfukenyi, D. M., Tivapasi, M., Mukamuri, B., & Matope, G. (2017). Assessment of community awareness and risk perceptions of zoonotic causes of abortion in cattle at three selected livestock–wildlife interface areas of Zimbabwe. Epidemiology & Infection, 145(7), 1304-1319.

8. Garine-Wichatitsky, D., Ndengu, M., Caron, A., Tivapasi, M., Chevalier, V., Miguel, E., ... & Matope, G. (2016). Managing infectious cattle abortion at wildlife-livestock-human interfaces of the SE Lowveld of Zimbabwe: the need for a multidisciplinary approach. OHEH.

9. Gadaga, B. M., Etter, E. M. C., Mukamuri, B., Makwangudze, K. J., Pfukenyi, D. M., & Matope, G. (2015). Living at the edge of an interface area in Zimbabwe: cattle owners, commodity chain and health workers’ awareness, perceptions and practices on zoonoses. BMC public health, 16(1), 1-10.

10. Mbereko, A., Mukamuri, B. B., & Chimbari, M. J. (2015). Exclusion and contests over wetlands used for farming in Zimbabwe: a case study of broad-ridge and broad-furrow tillage system on Zungwi Vlei. Journal of Political Ecology, 22(1), 322-338.

11. Gadaga, B. M., Etter, E., Mukamuri, B., Makwangudze, K. J., Pfukenyi, D. M., & Matope, G. (2014). Brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis at an animal-human interface in Zimbabwe. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 21, 237.

12. Mukamuri, B. B., & Kozanayi, W. (2014). Commercialization and institutional arrangements involving tree species harvested for bark by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. Advances in Economic Botany, 17, 247-254.

13. de Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Miguel, E., Mukamuri, B., Garine-Wichatitsky, E., Wencelius, J., Pfukenyi, D. M., & Caron, A. (2013). Coexisting with wildlife in transfrontier conservation areas in Zimbabwe: Cattle owners’ awareness of disease risks and perceptions of the role played by wildlife. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 36(3), 321-332.

14. Dziro, C., Mtetwa, E., Mukamuri, B., & Chikwaiwa, B. K. (2013). Challenges faced by western-modelled residential care institutions in preparing the residents for meaningful re-integration into society: A case study of a Harare-based children's home. Journal of Social Development in Africa, 28(2), 113.

15. Mukamuri, B., Chirozva, C., Matema, C., Matema, S., & Nzuma, T. (2013). Ethnic heterogeneity and its implications for natural resources management on the edge. Anderson, JA, de Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Cumming, DHM, Dzingirayi, U., Giller, KE Transfrontier Conservation Areas: People living on the edge. Routledge, Taylor and Francis, London, 89-105.

16. Chirozva, C., Mukamuri, B. B., & Manjengwa, J. (2013). Using scenario planning for stakeholder engagement in livelihood futures in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. Development Southern Africa, 30(6), 771-788.

17. Le Bel, S., Murwira, A., Mukamuri, B., Czudek, R., Taylor, R., & La Grange, M. (2011). Human wildlife conflicts in southern Africa: riding the whirl wind in Mozambique and in Zimbabwe. The importance of biological interactions in the study of biodiversity, 283-322.

18. Chirozva, C., Mukamuri, B., & Leeuwis, C. (2010). Exploring Future Ecosystem Services: A Scenario Planning Approach to Uncertainty in the South East Lowveld of Zimbabwe. Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe: Harare, Zimbabwe.

19. Mukamuri, B., & Manjengwa, M. (Eds.). (2009). Beyond Proprietorship. Murphrees Laws on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa: Murphrees Laws on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa. African Books Collective.

20. Mbereko, A., Chimbari, M. J., & Mukamuri, B. B. (2007). An analysis of institutions associated with wetlands use, access and management in communal areas of Zimbabwe: a case study of Zungwi vlei, Zvishavane. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 32(15-18), 1291-1299.

21. Manjengwa, J., & Mukamuri, B. (2007). Lessons from Action Aid International’s Urban Food Programme. Report prepared for the Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) of the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), June.

22. Motsi, K. E., Chuma, E., & Mukamuri, B. B. (2004). Rainwater harvesting for sustainable agriculture in communal lands of Zimbabwe. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 29(15-18), 1069-1073.

23. Mukamuri, B. B., Campbell, B. M., & Kowero, G. (2003). Local organisations and natural resource management in the face of economic hardships: A case study from Zimbabwe. Kowero, G., Campbell, BM & Sumaila, UR, 28-44.

24. Wolmer, W., Sithole, B., & Mukamuri, B. (2002). Crops, livestock & livelihoods in Zimbabwe. In I. Scoones & W. Wolmer (Eds.), Pathways of change in Africa: Crops, livestock and livelihoods in Mali, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. (pp. 137–181). James Currey.

25. Mukamuri, B. B., & Mavedzenge, T. (2000). Policies on the cultivation of vleis in Zimbabwe and local resistance to their enforcement. Managing African Soils, (14).

26. Campbell, B. M., Mukamuri, B. B., & Kowero, G. S. (2000). Exploring changing rural livelihoods, and woodland use and management in the communal areas of Zimbabwe. In A. . Temu, G. Lund, R. . Malimbwi, G. S. Kowero, K. Kleinn, Y. Malende, & I. Kone (Eds.), Off-forest tree resource of Africa: proceedings of a workshop, Arusha, Tanzania, 12-16 July 1999 (pp. 119–137). The African Academy of Sciences (AAS).

27. Mukamuri, B. B. (2000). Local institutions and management of indigenous woodland resources in Zimbabwe. Forests, Chiefs and Peasants in Africa: Local management of natural resources in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Silva Carelica, 34, 15-33.

28. Campbell, B. M., Dore, D., Luckert, M., Mukamuri, B., & Gambiza, J. (2000). land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: economic comparisons of livestock production in communal grazing lands in Zimbabwe. Ecological Economics, 33(3), 413-438.

29. Goebel, A., Campbell, B., Mukamuri, B., & Veeman, M. (2000). People, values, and woodlands: A field report of emergent themes in interdisciplinary research in Zimbabwe. Agriculture and human values, 17(4), 385-396.

30. Campbell, B., Frost, P., Goebel, A., Standa-Gunda, W., Mukamuri, B., & Veeman, M. (2000). A conceptual model of woodland use and change in Zimbabwe. International Tree Crops Journal, 10(4), 347-366.

31. Mukamuri, B. B., & Mavedzenge, T. (2000). Policies on the cultivation of" vleis" in Zimbabwe and local resistance to their enforcement: a case study of Mutoko and Chivi districts. Managing Africa’s soils (14). NUTNET.

32. Mukamuri, B. B. (1997). Making sense of social forestry. A political and contextual study of forestry practices in south central Zimbabwe (0114-0114). [Masters’ thesis, University Of Tampere].

33. Mukamuri, B. B. (1995). Local environmental conservation strategies: Karanga religion, politics and environmental control. Environment and History, 1(3), 297-311.

34. Matose, F., & Mukamuri, B. (1993). Rural people's knowledge and extension practice: trees, people and communities in Zimbabwe's communal lands. IIED Sustainable Agricultural Programme Research Series, 1(2), 38-45.

35. Gumbo, D. J., Mukamuri, B. B., Muzondo, M. I., & Scoones, I. C. (1990). Indigenous and exotic fruit trees: why do people want to grow them?. Agroforestry for sustainable production. Economic implications., 185-214.