Browsing Research articles (Dept of Environmental Science) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Global environmental change and food systems in Southern Africa: The dynamic challenges facing regional policy
(Academic Journals, http://www.academicjournals.org/JGRP, 2011-04)There is a growing concern that Global environmental change (GEC) will exacerbate the stress on Southern African food systems leading to increasing food insecurity, which is signified by rising levels of chronic and ... -
Impact and control of desertification in the drylands: a review article
(International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS), Japan. https://isdsnet.com/ijds.html, 2018)The inherent variation in the impacts of desertification and the criteria and methods used for its control significantly influence the success of its combat. This paper provides a critical review of the empirical studies ... -
Impact of bias‐corrected reanalysis‐derived lateral boundary conditions on WRF simulations
(American Geophysical Union, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19422466, 2017-07-13)Lateral and lower boundary conditions derived from a suitable global reanalysis data set form the basis for deriving a dynamically consistent finer resolution downscaled product for climate and hydrological assessment ... -
Impact of desertification on livelihoods in Katsina State, Nigeria
(Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA., http://www.jalsnet.com/, 2018-06)Is one of the overwhelming environmental problems in Katsina State where 75% of its nearly 6 million people on a 24,192 km2 of land depend on agriculture. Few studies have been undertaken to enhance the state of knowledge ... -
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 ... -
Influence of sodium adsorption ratio on sodium and calcium breakthrough curves and saturated hydraulic conductivity in soil columns.
(Csiro, http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/84.htm, 2007)The paper examines the effects of electrolyte concentration and sodium adsorption ration (SAR) on the relative saturated hydraulic conductivity (RHC) and the ionic behaviour of calcium (Ca) and sodium (Na) ions in the Na-Ca ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Investigating the applicability of nexus thinking to private protected areas; the case of Mokolodi Nature Reverse, Southeast Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019-09)World-wide, Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) has gained international attention for reconciling common pool resource management with needs and aspirations of the local people. Regionally, Zimbabwe’s ... -
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. ... -
Land use, rangeland degradation and ecological changes in the southern Kalahari, Botswana
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/, 2016-02-09)Dual‐scale analyses assessing farm‐scale patterns of ecological change and landscape‐scale patterns of change in vegetation cover and animal distribution are presented from ecological transect studies away from waterpoints, ... -
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 ... -
Making markets work for the poor (M4P) approach and smallholder irrigation farming
(Omics Publishing Group; www.omicsgroup.org, 2015)The aim of this article is to show what M4P is, how it came into being and how it has been used to guide intervention in different context and to weigh the extent to which it can be used to guide the study and interventions ... -
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, ... -
Minerals that host metals at Dorowa Rock Phosphate Mine, Zimbabwe
(Bentham Open, http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tomj/index.htm, 2011)This study set out to establish the major minerals at Dorowa and determine which of those are likely to host metals that may leach into surface and groundwater. This study comes after a preliminary assessment of the water ...