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Assessing the impacts of fire on the vegetation resources that are available to the local communities of the seasonal wetlands of the Okavango, Botswana, in the context of different land uses and key government policies
(Wiley online library, onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2009)
The Okavango wetlands in north western Botswana are the most fire-prone environment in Botswana. Most of these fires are anthropogenic. The fires in this environment are thought to impact the environment negatively and ...
Fish, floods, and ecosystem engineers: aquatic conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(American Institute of Biological Sciences, www.aibs.org, 2009-01)
The Okavango Delta, Botswana, is a major wetland surrounded by the Kalahari Desert. The delta supports a diverse fish fauna that depends on highly seasonal flooding from inflowing rivers, and on the actions of ecosystem ...
Social and ecological factors and land-use land-cover diversity in two provinces in southern Asia
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-10-23)
The trend of land cover (LC) and land cover change (LCC), both in time and space, was investigated at the Simen Mountains National Park (SMNP), a World Heritage Site located in northern Ethiopia, between 1984 and 2003 using ...
Common pool resource management among San communities in Ngamiland, Botswana
(Routledge, 2009-12-14)
The contestation for common pool resources in Botswana pits powerful institutions such as
national governments and international organisations against powerless local communities who continue to rely heavily on these ...
The "shrinking commons" in the Lake Ngami grasslands, Botswana: the impact of national rangeland policy
(http://www.routledge.com/, 2009)
This paper analyses land management policy using land use mapping, interviews with farmers and other stakeholders, and a review of secondary material. The study was carried out in the Lake Ngami area of Ngamiland District ...
The Okavango: whose Delta is it?
(Elsevier, 2009-07-15)
The Okavango Delta is amongst the largest Ramsar sites (http://www.ramsar.org/sitelist.pdf) in the world and an important wetland for community livelihoods, conservation and tourism in Botswana. Over the years, the utilization ...
The Okavango: whose Delta is it?
(Elsevier www.elsevier.com/locate/pce, 2009)
The Okavango Delta is amongst the largest Ramsar sites (http://www.ramsar.org/sitelist.pdf) in the world and an important wetland for community livelihoods, conservation and tourism in Botswana. Over the
years, the ...
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 ...
Biomass and leaf-level gas exchange characteristics of three African savanna C4 grass species under optimum growth conditions
(Blackwell, www.blackwell.co.uk, 2009-08)
C4 savanna grass species, Digitaria eriantha, Eragrostis lehmanniana and Panicum repens, were grown under optimum growth conditions with the aim of characterizing their above- and below-ground biomass allocation and the ...
Environmental variability and the fishery dynamics of the Okavango Delta, Botswana: the case of subsistence fishing
(Blackwell Publishing, http://www.blackwellpublishing.com, 2009)
The hydrological regime of the Okavango River Basin is the main driver of ecological change in the delta. The delta supports a small-scale fishery which is a source of livelihood for communities within its fringes. The ...