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Soil heavy metal concentration patterns at two speed zones along the Gaborone-Tlokweng border post highway, Southeast Botswana
(JASEM http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jasem/article/view/43693/27216, 2006-06)
Since 1988 Botswana has been experiencing an unprecedented increase in vehicular traffic which
is suspected to be having contamination effects on soils along heavily used roads in the country. This study aimed at
understanding ...
Seed-bank analysis for herbaceous species along grazing gradients in the Sandveld and Hardveld grazing areas of Botswana
(Botswana College of Agriculture, http://www.bca.bw/Research/bojaasBca/InstructionToAuthors.htm, 2007)
Grasses and forbs in Southern Africa have been understudied in terms of species richness and factor that affect diversity patterns. To gain a better understanding of factors affecting patterns of herbaceous plant species ...
Influence of seasonal flooding on soil total nitrogen, organic phosphorus and microbial populations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Journal of Arid Environments. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622855/description#description, 2003)
The effect of flooding on soil total nitrogen, phosphorus and microbial
population in different vegetation zones (floodplain, island and woodland)
and profile depth (0?1, 0?5, 2?0, 3?0, 4?0 and 5?0m) of the Okavango ...
The effects of the water management framework and the role of domestic consumers on urban water conservation in Botswana
(Routledge http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508060802475415, 2008)
This article examines the adverse effects of a fragmented water management framework and
the role of domestic water users on water conservation in Gaborone, the rapidly growing
capital city of Botswana. There was a major ...
Contending with unequal and privileged access to natural resources and land in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Blackwell http://www.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00332.x, 2008)
This paper reviews how state policy and regulatory instruments, including protected area alienations
and concessions, have altered or denied the access to land and natural livelihood resources
of the indigenous Basarwa ...
Natural resources accounting: A tool for water resources management in Botswana
(Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/413/description#description, 2007)
Natural Resource Accounting (NRA) has become an important environmental/natural resources management tool in recent years. It
provides information on stocks of a resource available at a particular point in time and what ...
Towards a theoretical exploration of the differential urbanisation model in Sub-saharan Africa: The Botswana case
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9663, 2006)
This paper investigates the extent to which the differential urbanisation model is applicable to
Botswana by using empirical data obtained from periodic censuses, supportive documentary
information and observations from ...
Mineralogical appraisal of sediments of duricrust suites and pans around Jwaneng area, Botswana
(Bioline http://www.bioline.org, 2007)
A mineralogical investigation of duricrust suites in Letlhakeng valley, and five pans around
Jwaneng in Botswana was undertaken in order to know the mineral assemblages and infer on their landscape formation. In Letlhakeng, ...
Population, development, and waste management in Botswana: Conceptual and policy implications for climate change
(Springer http://www.springerlink.com/index/3NU5AFH2F999FM9P.pdf -, 2003)
Based on government and other relevant documentation, this paper explores the conceptual linkage between population, development, and waste management in
Botswana and the implications of this relationship for global climate ...
Environmental problems among low income urban residents: an empirical analysis of old Naledi-Gaborone, Botswana
(Pergamon, www.elsevier.com/locate/habitatint, 2003)
This study investigates the profile, dynamics and dimensions ofenvironm ental problems at Old Naledi, a
low income urban neighbourhood in Gaborone, the capital city ofBotsw ana. It is based on documentary
and field ...