Lake Chamo waterfront development

Idea projektu

-General objective The general objective of this study were to assess the overall ecotourism resource potential of lake Chamo waterfront fish market area and critically identify the prevailing challenges of the community in the area, and its future prospects a head. - Specific objectives 1- To examine the lake Chamo waterfront public space (fish market) and determine the existing features. 2- To analyze what activities are carried out in this lake Chamo waterfront fish market and which community members use it most frequently. 3- Identifying the development potentials of ecotourism in Lake Chamo waterfronts fish market. 4- Evaluating of ecotourism attraction in Arba Minch lake Chamo waterfront fish market and proposed with respecting the potentials of the area located.

Popis projektu

This study basically put effort on identifying the waterfront public spaces for maximizing the ecotourism resource potential of Arba Minch lake Chamo waterfront fish market area for a healthy development. Along with, it has assessed the community and tourists perception about the area, for a healthy operation and biodiversity conservation. Thematic scope The issue around waterfront public spaces is very wide. There are economic, social, environmental, health, and many other issues that are related to the idea of waterfront public spaces. This study mainly focuses on enhancing and designing Lake Chamo water front public space (fish market) following the above points. Spatial scope This research is mainly concerned with the Arba Minch city, Lake Chamo waterfront fish market public spaces to enhance and design those spaces in accordance with urban designing principles and elements. The study area is “Lake Chamo waterfront fish market”. This open space making functional & enhanced in many aspects for the user by keeping natural landscape features.

Technické informace

Recommendation regarding the specific case area • There should be proper organization and cleanness for giving enough service and facilities that given in the study area. • There should be addition of recreation programs for groups. People mostly come in groups to the fish market and there should be something they can do together. • There should be provided a quality and ample of site amenities, toilet, seats, shades, drinking fountain, soft landscaping, parking space, and also sport facilities which in result increase the image ability and comfort of the spaces and also active space in all day time. • There should be well designed parking for vehicle and make the circulation comfortable for pedestrian and upgrade the road material type and provide well designed path way by landscape and also provide more comfortable ceremony place just like weeding and so. • The flooding issues because of the overflow of the lake is one of the problem in the case area this needs a planned upper catchment area forestation by the government body’s and Protect vegetation cover properly in the case area is also the other recommendation because vegetation cover is a breath for a good waterfront landscape. • Design of learning, recreational and aesthetic landscape experiences like watching towers for visitors. • Providing an ecological waste management system(biogas) for the case area for preserving the water frontage and to provide a healthy waterfront service in the case area. • Material usage must be eco-friendly with the environment somehow give a response by appropriate building material. Recommendation regarding urban scale • The precedence of Sustainable waterfront development is sustainable waterfront development and management plan so unlike the past trend of planning the lakefront with the master plans; there should be a specific and detail waterfront development and management plan. • Municipal Liquid waste from the city should be collected and treated rather than draining into the lake. For implementing these there should be sustainable liquid waste management practices such as recycling and treating the waste with constructed wetlands. • Contextualizing land use policies, laws, proclamations and regulations for Lake Chamo waterfront and implement it by delegation of the responsible body. • Controlling the expansion of illegal fishing business around the lake city and other places should be considered by the municipality. • The water resource consumption of the urban development should be studied and balanced with the water budget of the lake. To do so there must be sustainable water resource management plan in the city. • Manage urban green areas, public spaces and recreational areas with sustainable urban waterfront green area planning principles. • Engage the community and other important stakeholders in protecting and revitalizing the waterfront.

Abel Abrham

ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY Faculty of Architecture And Urban Planing

Ethiopia

Urbanismus

Projekt odevzdán

10. 07. 2024

Tag

Urbanismus Sports Center Water Facility Playground Parks Public spaces Gardens Waterway

Rada studentům

Lake Chamo waterfront development

It is an interesting project and I like the way you have strategically created eight zones for the site but somehow I feel that the critical potentials of this project were undermined. I agree that the lake is nearly 350 sq.km of area and offers a blend of diversified ecology; however, critical aspects were missed and the solutions failed to provide judicious evaluation. If you had studied key limnological variables you would have realised that water transparency is zero and the amount of suspended solids in the water column are high. Any lake conservation programme should and need to focus on reducing sediment inflow from the catchments into the lake; the ecotourism factor and design parameters would then change. Many scientific studies have shown that the surface runoff has increased from 4.6 to 72.5 mm as well as sediment load rose from 0.26 to 4.21 t/ha due to land-use and land-cover changes, mainly expanding to urbanisation and intensive agriculture. You should have well integrated the land-use and land-cover in your study to manage the water resources and re-define appropriate programmes. I appreciate the fact that you want to furbish the area with the activities that the users are participating in currently; hence, most of the programmes that you have cited are related to recreation and partly conserving water. But there are no programmes to monitor the quality of water and other functions neither any research facility that would actually attract and maintain ecotourism. There is no deep analysis or study of marine environment/fauna; catfish Bagrus Docmak, Nile Perch, Hippopotamus and Nile Crocodiles. How is your project taking care of that? Whether there are any programmes to conserve or protect the species? The location of the project and the bank is not specified as there is no master plan. This would have been a major attraction for ecotourism. Flooding is an issue as cited by you in your strategies but besides vegetation/agriculture area nothing specific has been mentioned in the project. I feel in order to cater to three distinct visions of ecotourism, fish-market and management of water-front development you missed out the deeper understanding of the lake, land, land-use and wetland areas. The recommendations that you have suggested partly works but mostly will require a nifty strategy for its implementation as many compartments of modifications either are not considered or/are missing. But appreciate your efforts in trying to resolve lake-water-front development that demands both ecological, social, governance and hydro-logical studies.
20.03.2026

Himanshu Sanghani

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