Browsing Research articles (Dept of Environmental Science) by Issue Date
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Land tenure and management reforms in East and Southern Africa - the case of Botswana
(Elsevier Science Ltd. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/landusepol, 2000)Since attainment of independence, almost every country in East and Southern Africa has introduced some kind of land reform aimed at reconciling indigenous land tenure practices and those introduced by colonial regimes. ... -
Urban environmental management in Botswana:towards a theoretical explanation of public policy failure
(Springer http://www.springerlink.com/index/05CM7XY4DJGUEUQL.pdf, 2001)For the last three and half decades, Botswana has been widely acclaimed to be one of sub-Saharan Africa's longest and most stable liberal democracies, coupled with and sustained by a growing economy. One of the major ... -
Assessment of vegetation indexes useful for browse (forage) prediction in semi-arid rangelands
(Taylor and Francis http://www.clas.ufl.edu/lueci/southworth/RS-class-advanced/Discussion-readings/Moleele%20et%20al%202001%20Assessment%20of%20veg%20indexes%20i.pdf, 2001)Considerable signi® cance is placed on the mapping and monitoring of degraded areas in semi-arid regions of the world, including Botswana. Degraded areas include those suVering from bush encroachment, believed to result ... -
Instruments for sustainable solid waste management in Botswana
(Sage http://wmr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/4/342, 2001)Sustainable solid waste management is a strategy for achieving environmental quality in both the developed and the developing world. Environmental quality is a necessary condition for an increase in per capita welfare over ... -
Urban water scarcity management: civic vs. state response in Bulawayo
(Pergamon, www.elsevier.com/locate/habitatint, 2002)In most sub-Sahara African cities, rapid urbanization has placed a heavy burden on available human, financial and socioeconomic resources. The problem has been compounded by the intricate and interactive effects of rapid ... -
Energy sector policies in Botswana and their implications for global climate change
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, http://www.springerlink.com/content/102895/, 2002)Like most African countries, Botswana contributes almost insignificantly to global greenhouse emissions (GHGs). In this context, some have argued that energy policy and legislative measures to regulate emissions in Botswana ... -
Localized wood resource depletion in Botswana: Towards a demographic, institutional and cosmovisional explanation
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cepe, 2002)In sub-Saharan Africa, communal land resource utilization and management has reflected changes in sociocultural belief systems, population dynamics, and modes of societal administration and regulation. This paper, based ... -
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 ... -
Environmental change and sustainability issues in the Kalahari region
(Elsevier Science Ltd, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622855/description#description, 2003)The collection of papers in this special edition of the Journal of Arid Environments is a sequel to a Workshop held in Maun, Botswana, in October 2000, on the theme Climate Change, Biodiversity and Multi-species Production ... -
Resource use conflicts: the future of the Kalahari ecosystem
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140196302910992, 2003)The Kalahari ecosystem is characterized by natural resource conflicts and land-use pressure resulting from intensification of human activities. This paper addresses three issues of concern associated with the Kalahari ecosystem ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Wildlife resource utilisation at Moremi Game Reserve and Khwai community area in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elsevier http://www.doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.03.007, 2005)This paper uses the concept of sustainable development to examine the utilisation of wildlife resources at Moremi Game Reserve (MGR) and Khwai community area (NG 18/19) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Using both secondary ... -
Enclave tourism and its socio-economic impacts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elsevier http://www.doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2003.11.005, 2005)This paper draws on the dependency paradigm to explain the development of enclave tourism and its socio-economic impacts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Using both primary and secondary data source, the study indicates ...