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Projects:

Reconnoitering the Local Communities’ Involvement in Conservation of Cultural Heritage Sites of the Nyerere Game Reserve for Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania: A Formative Field Intervention Study; Commissioned by University of Dar es Salaam under Competitive Research and Innovation Grants. Research was conducted in 2022-2023

Gender-Based Situational Analysis of Children Living and Working on Streets (CLWS) in Tanzania; Commissioned by University of Dar es Salaam under Competitive Research and Innovation Grants. Research was conducted in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Mwanza city in 2022-2023

Explaining inclusive lower-level urbanization in Tanzania and Uganda, funded by Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), grant number 2020-03233. The project is of three years, starting from January, 2022 – December, 2024. 

Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania: The project of six years, starting from January, 2020 – December 2025. Sponsored by DANIDA. The research will be conducted in Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Kigoma and Kagera regions.

Appraising Risk, Past and Present: Interrogating Historical Data to Enhance Understanding of Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World. Sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada.  The project is of six years, starting from January, 2020 – December, 2025.

Community Disaster Management Capacity in flood prone areas in Tanzania: A Case study of Mwanza City Informal Settlements; Commissioned by University of Dar es Salaam under SIDA core Support Funding. Research was conducted in Mwanza city in 2012-2013.

Disaster Risk Reduction in Informal Settlements in the Mwanza City Ecosystems in Tanzania; Commissioned by University of Dar es Salaam and DAAD). Research was conducted in Mwanza city in 2009-2011 (PhD Thesis).

Integrating Traditional and Modern Environmental Knowledge Systems in Land Resource Management in Tanzania: A Case study of Upper-Kitete Village in Karatu District, Tanzania; Commissioned by Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA, May 2009-212)

Publications:

Book Chapter:

Frederick Ato Armah, Herbert Hambati, Isaac Luginaah, Ratana Chuenpagdee, and Gwyn Campbell (2016) “Evaluating Differences in Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation between the Poor and Non-poor in Coastal Tanzania” in W. Leal Filho (ed.), Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Management: Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (2016, chapter 25 pg 365-388

Journals Articles: 

Hambati, H. (2022):  Weathering the Storm: Community Socio-Economic and Physical Vulnerability Assessment of Informal Settlements to Disasters in Arusha City, Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science, 48 (2):335-351.

Hambati, H. (2021): The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in Improving Farm Productivity in Kainam Village, Mbulu District –Tanzania. University of Dar es Salaam Library Journal, 16 (2):34-52

Hambati, H. (2021): Invisible Resilience: Indigenous Knowledge Systems of Earthquake Disaster Management in Kagera Region, Tanzania. UTAFITI Journal, 16 (2): 247–270.

Lisa Ann Richey , Line Engbo Gissel, Opportuna L. Kweka, Pernille Bærendtsen, Peter Kragelund, Herbert Qambalo Hambati, Asubisye Mwamfupe (2021): “South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania” World Development Journal, 141 (1): 105-375.  

Atuaoye, K.N; Hambati,H; Luginah, I; Campbell G.; (2020): “Who are the losers? Gendered-migration, climate change and the impact of large scale land acquisitions on food security on coastal Tanzania” Journal of Land Use Policy, 101(1) 105 -154. 

Sarah L. Smiley & Herbert Hambati (2020): “Using Photograph Interpretation to Understand Perceptions of Floods in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” Journal of Applied Geography, 6 (2): 159 -173. 

Sarah L. Smiley and Herbert Hambati (2019): “Impacts of flooding on drinking water access in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals”. Journal of sanitation, water and hygiene for development, 9 (2): 392-396. 

Atuaoye, K.N; Hambati,H; Luginah, I; Campbell G.; (2019): “Politics, Economics, how about our health? Impacts of large-scale land acquisition on therapeutic spaces and wellbeing in coastal Tanzania" Journal of social science and medicine, 220 (1) 283-291.

Herbert Hambati and Genesis T. Yengoh (2017): Community resilience to natural disasters in the informal settlements in Mwanza City, Tanzania, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 61 (10) 1758 – 1788.

Sheila A. Boamah, Herbert Hambati, Frederick Ato Armah, Isaac Luginaah, Ratana Chuenpagdee & Gwyn Campbell (2017): Evaluating the complex interactions between malaria and cholera prevalence, neglected tropical disease comorbidities, and community perception of health risks of climate change, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 27 (7) 714 -732.

Alexander Angsongna, Herbert Hambati, Frederick Ato Armah, Sheila Boamah, , Isaac Luginaah, Ratana Chuenpagdee & Gwyn Campbell (2016): A systematic review of resource habitat taboos and human health outcomes in the context of global environmental change, Global Bioethics Journal, 27 (2-4) 91 -111. 

Hambati, H. and Gaston, G. (2015) "Revealing the Vulnerability of Urban Communities to Flood Hazard in Tanzania: A Case of the Dar es Salaam City Ecosystem," International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research, 2 (1) 1-24.

Armah, A.F; Hambati, H; Luginah, I; Genesis T.Y; Campbell G.; Chuenpagdee, R. (2015): “Monitored versus Experience-Based Perceptions of Environmental Change: Evidence from Coastal Tanzania”. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 12 (2) 119 -152. 

Armah, A.F, Hambati H., Reginald Q., Luginaah, I., Chuenpagdee. R.,Campbell, G. (2015): “Historical Perspective and Risk of Multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases in Coastal Tanzania: Compositional and Contextual Determinants of Disease Risk”. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 9(8): e0003939. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003939.

Armah, A.F; Hambati,H; Luginah, I; Campbell G.; Chuenpagdee, R (2015): “Assessing barriers to adaptation to climate change in coastal Tanzania: Does where you live matter?" Journal of population and environment. DOI: 10.1007/s11111-015-0232-9.

Armah, A.F; Hambati,H; Genesis T.Y; Luginah, I; Campbell G.; Chuenpagdee, R (2015): “Analyzing the Relationship between Objective-Subjective Health Status and Public Perception of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk in Coastal Tanzania”. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2014.1003203.

John, L.R; Hambati, H; and Armah, A (2014): “Assessment of land use and land cover change: Intensity analysis and community Knowledge in Karatu District, Tanzania”. Journal of African Geographical Review; Vol. 33, No. 2, 150 – 173.

Hambati, H (2013): “Weathering the storm: Disaster Risk and vulnerability assessment of informal Settlements in Mwanza city, Tanzania”. Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 70, No. 6 Pp. 919-939.

Hambati, H (2013): “Integrating Traditional and Modern Ecological Knowledge in Improving Agro-pastoral and Arable Land use Efficiency in a resilient Community in Northern Tanzania”. Tanzanian Journal of Population Studies and Development; Vol. 20, No. 1&2, Pp. 17-36, DTU, University of Dar es Salaam.