UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (COSS)

HERBET QAMBALO HAMBATI

Senior Lecturer, College of Social Sciences
Education:

PhD

Teaching:

He teaches and has done a number of researches and consultancies in following areas: Disaster Risk Management; Disaster and Development; Urban Planning and Management; Population, Resources and Development Nexus; Migration and Urbanization; Project Planning and Management; Traditional and Modern Ecological Knowledge Systems; Participatory Geographical Information systems (PGIS); Urban and Rural Settlements planning.

Research:

He has done research and published a number of papers in the following fields: Traditional Environmental Knowledge Systems and Management of vulnerable areas; Population increase and Vulnerability to Disasters in the Informal Settlements; Building Community Resilience to Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa; Towards Sustaining Land use systems: Environment and the Land use in the Mid-northeastern Tanzania; He has recently published the articles on Community Resilience to natural disasters in the informal settlements in Mwanza city, Tanzania; Challenges of Urbanization and population growth in Africa in the Context of Climate Change; community vulnerability assessment and climate change adaptations interventions in semi-arid regions.