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The Success and Sustainability of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Society of South African Geographers; http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sageo.html, 2004)This paper assesses the success and sustainability of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in the Okavango Delta. It does so by asking the following questions: a) to what extent has CBNRM contributed to ... -
Success factors in community based natural resources management in northern Botswana: Lessons from practice
(Blackwell Publishing, www.blackwellpublishing.com, 2005-08-08)The article explores and examines challenges and lessons learned from the implementation of community based natural resources management (CBNRM) programmes in Ngamiland, northern Botswana. The article, based largely on ... -
Survival at a cost: how artisanal fishers perceive occupational hazards in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2018-10-30)Fishing is regarded as an important livelihood activity in any riparian communities. People’s attitudes and perceptions of occupational risks associated with fishing are engendered by certain socio-cultural norms. This ... -
Sustainable water resources management: issues and principles of water governance in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Sage; https://journals.sagepub.com/, 2015-11)In the recent times, there is an increased awareness about the importance of water management as population growth, new technologies, increased food consumption, land use and economic activities, among others, continue to ... -
Temperature-Emissivity separation with ASTER and LANDSAT 7 validation on the fringe of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(SPIE, http://link.aip.org, 2004)Land surface temperatures are important in global change studies, in estimating radiation budget, heat balance studies and as control for climate models. Several algorithms for estimating land surface temperature and ... -
"They don’t read meters, they only bring bills’: Issues surrounding the installation of prepaid water meters in Karoi town, Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2019-11-20)City and town administrators in Zimbabwe continue to push for the installation of prepaid water meters (PWMs). This is despite the residents' objections to the proposal. The merits and demerits of PWMs continue to be ... -
Tourism and biodiversity conservation: the case of community-based natural resource management in southern Africa
(CAB International Publishing, www.cabi.org, 2013-01-10)This review analyses the potential of tourism to contribute to biodiversity conservation with particular reference to developing countries. In the last quarter of a century, there has been a global concern about the extent ... -
Tourism in Botswana in the last 50 Years: a review
(Botswana Notes and Records; http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr/, 2017-07-05)Using the concepts of ecotourism and sustainable tourism, this paper reviews tourism development in Botswana since the country’s independence in 1966. Findings from this review indicate that the tourism industry has ... -
Tracing silicon cycling in the Okavango Delta, a sub-tropical flood-pulse wetland using silicon isotopes
(Elservier, https://www.elsevier.com, 2014-07-22)Chemical weathering of silicate minerals releases elements into solution whereas the neoformation of secondary minerals works in the opposite direction, potentially confounding estimates of silicate weathering rates. Silicon ... -
Traditional innovations: an analysis of traditional land-use and management institutions of Ngamiland, Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2019-10)Mounting global dependence on natural resources has exacerbated natural resource depletion, land degradation and poverty levels worldwide. Scientists and planners acknowledging that science does not have all the answers ... -
Trait-environment relations for dominant grasses in South African mesic grassland support a general leaf economic model
(Wiley Online Library, 2011-03-04)Question: Following the framework of Suding et al.(2003), we examined whether morphological traits (organismal response), tolerance and competitive effect (specific process response) were associated with grass dominance ... -
Transactional sex relations among tertiary education students in the urban-village of Maun, Botswana
(Botswana Notes and Records;http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr/, 2017-07-05)In southern Africa, multiple factors in given societal contexts motivate transactional sexual relations among women and men. The purpose of this study is to assess socio-economic and cultural factors that influence ... -
Tree–grass competition along a catenal gradient in a mesic grassland, South Africa
(Wiley Online Library; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2014-03-03)The interaction, both above and belowground, between tree saplings and the surrounding grass sward is dependent on solar radiation, temperature, rainfall, soil depth, tree species and sward composition. These factors, ... -
The tropical African mercury anomaly: lower than expected mercury concentrations in fish and human hair
(Elsevier, 2011-02-20)Mercury is a neurotoxin and global pollutant, and wetlands and newly flooded areas are known to be sites of enhanced production of monomethylmercury, the form of mercury that is readily biomagnified in aquatic food chains ... -
The tropical African mercury anomaly:lower than expected mercury concentrations in fish and human hair
(Elsevier, 2011)Mercury is a neurotoxin and global pollutant, and wetlands and newly flooded areas are known to be sites of enhanced production of monomethylmercury, the form of mercury that is readily biomagnified in aquatic food chains ... -
Tropical wetlands: seasonal hydrologic pulsing, carbon sequestration and methane emissions
(Springer, http://www.springer.com, 2010)This paper summarizes the importance of climate on tropical wetlands. Regional hydrology and carbon dynamics in many of these wetlands could shift with dramatic changes in these major carbon storages if the inter-tropical ... -
Twenty reasons why local knowledge will remain relevant to development
(Taylor & Francis; https://www.tandfonline.com/, 2015-10-05)Local knowledge has continued to gain popularity among development practitioners in the last four decades. However, the future of local knowledge seems hazy to some academics and researchers, perhaps due to the methodological ... -
Use of image processing and GIS techniques to determine the extent and possible causes of land management/fenceline induced degradation problems in the Okavango area, northern Botswana
(Taylor & Francis; http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01431161.asp, 1997)Attention worldwide has been focused on the need to assess the appropriateness of land management strategies especially where these occur near sensitive areas of wildlife habitat. This work considers the use of mainly ... -
Use of remotely sensed data in the analysis of soil-vegetation changes along a drying gradient peripheral to the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis; http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01431161.asp, 2005-10-10)This work determines the value of remotely sensed imagery in developing drying impacts which occur as a result of internal and/or external factors in the Okavango catchment. Three sites provide a preview of the consequences ... -
Use of the geochemical and biological sedimentary record in establishing palaeo-environments and climate change in the Lake Ngami basin, NW Botswana
(Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/865/description#description, 2007-02-07)[Please note chemical formulae do not display correctly in this abstract]. Sediment samples from a continuous 4.6m profile in the dry bed of Lake Ngami in NW Botswana were analysed for geochemistry and dated using both 14C ...