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The socio-cultural impacts of tourism development in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Channel view publications, http://www.multilingual-matters.net/jtc/default.htm, 2004)
The objective of this article is to assess the socio-cultural impacts of tourism
development in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. This paper largely relied on the
research work and reports by the author in the Okavango Delta ...
Forecasting the spatial extent of the annual flood in the Okavango delta, Botswana
(Elsevier http://www.doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.11.010, 2004)
The pristine Okavango Delta wetland of northern Botswana is potentially under threat due to water abstraction from its
tributaries. We have developed a statistical model which makes it possible to predict the extent of ...
Vulnerability assessment of the maize and sorghum crops to climate change in Botswana
(Springer http://www.springerlink.com/content/p88867543584713, 2004)
This study examines the sensitivity of maize and sorghum crops to global warming in
Botswana, a country with arid climatic conditions and shortfalls in locally produced grain. The
vulnerability of the maize and sorghum ...
Traditional ecological knowledge and community-based natural resource management: lessons from a Botswana wildlife management area
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014362280300033X, 2004)
The advent of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Botswana in
the late 1980s ushered in a new paradigm in natural resource management. The strategy
marked a change from state-controlled to community-controlled ...
Integrating policy, disintegrating practice:water resources management in Botswana
(Elsevier, http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1474706504001834, 2004)
Botswana is generally regarded as an African success story. Nearly four decades of unabated economic growth, multi-party
democracy, conservative decision-making and low-levels of corruption have made Botswana the darling ...
Nitrogen cycling in the soil–plant system along a precipitation gradient in the Kalahari sands
(Blackwell Publishing, 2004-01-01)
Nitrogen (N) cycling was analyzed in the Kalahari region of southern Africa, where a
strong precipitation gradient (from 978 to 230mm mean annual precipitation) is the main
variable affecting vegetation. The region is ...