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Institutions and water governance in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2018-11-10)The goals of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) can be achieved by embracing the principles of distributive governance, which places both customary and statutory water institutions on the same pedestal in the ... -
Inter-disciplinarity, development studies, and development practice
(Taylor & Francis; https://www.tandfonline.com/, 2010-03-09)The article primarily seeks to show the interconnectedness of diverse academic disciplines and their crucial role in development practice. It sheds light on the meanings of developmentrelated concepts and seeks to delineate ... -
Interactions between fire and flooding in a southern African floodplain system (Okavango Delta, Botswana)
(Springer: http://www.springerlink.com, 2006)A series of 98 satellite images was analysed to reconstruct the fire and flood history of a floodplain system in southern Africa(Okavango Delta, Botswana). The data was used to investigate interactions between fire and ... -
Interactions between flooding and upland disturbance drives species diversity in large river floodplains
(Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016-02-10)Understanding and predicting vegetation patterns in floodplains are essential for conservation and/or restoration of river floodplains subject to hydrological alterations. We propose a conceptual hydroecological model to ... -
Intersecting western and local knowledge: critical issues for development research in Africa
(Knowledge Globalization Institute, http://www.kglobal.org, 2012)Knowledge production, sharing and adaptation become beneficial when they enhance sustainable human development. Western and local knowledge are not mutually exclusive. In combination, local and western technologies may ... -
Invasiveness of biofuel crops: implications for energy research and policy in Botswana
(Taylor and Francis group; https://www.tandfonline.com, 2020-04-07)In developed countries, biofuel development was largely driven by a desire to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing energy security, whereas in developing countries, in addition to energy security, the quest ... -
Is literacy key to community development?: analyzing two groups of adults' involvement in development projects in northern Nigeria
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2012)This paper investigates the influence of adult literacy on grassroots people’s involvement in community development (CD) projects in Nigeria. It examines the differences in the level of involvement in CD projects by ... -
Is local knowledge peripheral? The future of Indigenous knowledge in research and development
(Sage; https://journals.sagepub.com/, 2022-04-11)The concepts of the core, semi-periphery, and periphery emanated from a mix of dependency and postmodernist thoughts, which rejected the notion of a Third World from which local knowledge emanates and develops. That local ... -
Islands in the Okavango delta as sinks of water-borne nutrients
(Botswana Society, 2005)Groundwater under islands in the Okavango Delta is a known sink of inorganic dissolved minerals, preventing salinisation of this virtually enclosed evaporation-dominated hydrological system. The Okavango Delta is an ... -
A laboratory assessment of the potential molluscicidal potency of Jatropha curcas aqueous extracts
(Taylor & Francis http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/, 2008)Preliminary laboratory studies were conducted to determine the molluscicidal potency of Jatropha curcas, the physic nut. Biomphalaria glabrata and Bulinus globosus snails were exposed to varying concentrations of aqueous ... -
A laboratory assessment of the potential molluscicidal potency of Jatropha curcas aqueous extracts
(Taylor & Francis, 2008-05-05)Preliminary laboratory studies were conducted to determine the molluscicidal potency of Jatropha curcas, the physic nut. Biomphalaria glabrata and Bulinus globosus snails were exposed to varying concentrations of aqueous ... -
Lake Ohrid, Albania, provides an exceptional multi-proxy record of environmental changes during the last glacial-interglacial cycle
(Elsevier, 2010-01-11)Multi-proxy analyses on core JO2004-1 recovered from Lake Ohrid (40°55.000 N, 20°40.297E, 705 m a.s.l.) provide the first environmental and climate reconstruction in a mountainous area in Southern Europe over the last ... -
Land-use and resource conflicts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Wiley, 2009)This study assesses land-use conflicts in the Okavango wetland ecosystem. A survey of the livelihood activities of a sample of four villages has been carried out and a stakeholder approach used to identify and analyse the ... -
Land-use and resource conflicts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Blackwell, http://www.wiley-blackwell.com, 2009)This study assesses land-use conflicts in the Okavango wetland ecosystem. A survey of the livelihood activities of a sample of four villages has been carried out and a stakeholder approach used to identify and analyse the ... -
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability.
(British Ecological Society, 2020-07-23)1. Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals and global environmental targets. Until recently, there was ... -
Live by the gun, die by the gun: Botswana’s ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy as an anti-poaching strategy
(African Journal Online, https://www.ajol.info, 2017)Rhino and elephant poaching affects various Southern African countries. Despite recent reductions in rhino poaching in Namibia and South Africa, it remains a concern. In response, the government of Botswana has implemented ... -
Livestock predation, household adaptation and compensation policy: a case study of Shorobe village in the northern Botswana
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ragr20, 2012-06-28)Human-wildlife conflict is a worldwide phenomenon. Through a household survey supplemented by informal interviews, this study attempts to understand the dynamics of livestock predation by carnivores at village level in ... -
Local residents’ pride, tourists’ playground: the misrepresentation and exclusion of local residents in tourism
(Taylor & Francis (Routlegde), https://www.tandfonline.com, 2019-05-11)In most studies, Africans and other local residents in the Global South are often considered merely as hosts, and as a result, they are often misrepresented in shaping tourism in their own countries. Using Botswana as an ... -
Looking for progenitors: a molecular approach to finding the origins of an invasive weed
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, http://www.springerlink.com, 2002-11-28)One of the major problems in determining the origin of invasive species is that often their arrival is unnoticed. Only when population levels increase is their presence noticed but by this time determining the point of ... -
Macrophyte species distribution, indices of biotic integrity, and sampling intensity in isolated Florida marshes
(Springer Link, https://link.springer.com, 2012)This study examined the distribution of wetland plants used in macrophyte-based index of biotic integrity (IBI) metrics to determine the effectiveness of zone sampling in assessing wetland condition. Using sampling data ...