Browsing Research articles (Dept of Environmental Science) by Subject "Botswana"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Inappropriate use of agrochemicals poses potential threats to Botswana vultures: a call for research and legal instruments
(The Botswana Society, http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr/index, 2017)Agrochemicals are widely used across the world to serve different purposes. However, inappropriate use of agrochemicals affects wildlife particularly non-target species such as vultures. In this paper, we discuss the ... -
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 ... -
Intergenerational bargaining and wealth flows in the era of HIV/AIDS: emerging trends in Old Naledi-Gaborone, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), http://jir.ucsur.pitt.edu/, 2008)Based on the intergenerational wealth flows conceptual framework, this paper investigates how the AIDS pandemic threatens to disrupt the transfer of resources between generations by using a typical low income urban area ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Problems and prospects for the development of urban tourism in Gaborone and Maun, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713413745, 2007-12)This paper draws on the tourism system framework to examine the problems and prospects of urban tourism in Gaborone and Maun, Botswana. These are young centres that have a growing number of tourist attractions, facilities ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sustainability management and tourism impacts on communities: Residents’ attitudes in Maun and Tshabong, Botswana
(AfricaJournals, https://www.ajhtl.com/, 2017)Sustainability management and especially socio-cultural sustainability of tourism is premised on community awareness, participation and deriving socio-economic benefits from tourism. The purpose of the study was to ... -
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 ...