University of Botswana Research, Innovation and Scholarship Archive: Recent submissions
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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 tropical African mercury anomaly: lower than expected mercury concentrations in fish and human hair
(Elsevier, 2011-02-20)Mercury is a neurotoxin and global pollutant, and wetlands and newly flooded areas are known to be sites of enhanced production of monomethylmercury, the form of mercury that is readily biomagnified in aquatic food chains ... -
Changes on traditional livelihood activities and lifestyles caused by tourism development in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elsevier, 2010-09-05)The Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program in Botswana aims at achieving conservation and rural development. In the Okavango Delta, some communities are involved in tourism through CBNRM to improve ... -
Will reconnecting ecosystems allow long-distance mammal migrations to resume? A case study of a zebra Equus burchelli migration in Botswana
(Fauna & Flora International, 2010-04-07)Terrestrial wildlife migrations, once common, are now rare because of ecosystem fragmentation and uncontrolled hunting. Botswana historically contained migratory populations of many species but habitat fragmentation, ... -
Education for sustainable development in higher education institutions in southern Africa
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-12)The implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) demand for a review of the current epistemological and pedagogical practices in the context of the objectives of the United Nations Decade of Education for ... -
HIV/AIDS-anxiety among adolescent students in Botswana
(Springer Netherlands, http://www.springerlink.com, 2008-09)This research investigated the incidence of HIV/AIDS anxiety among students in Botswana. The sample comprised 240 randomly selected students from six schools in three districts in Botswana, with data collected via a ... -
Linking firm and managers' characteristics to perceived critical success factors for innovative entrepreneurial support
(Emerald Group Publications, www.wileyinterscience.com, 2010)This paper aims to examine perceived critical success factors (SCFs) affecting the performance of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their relationships with firm characteristics. The paper also seeks to investigate ... -
Testing weak-form market effeciency in emerging market: evidence from Botswana Stock Exchange
(World Scientific, www.worldscientific.com, 2007)Market effeciency is an area enormous interest in the financial literature. Numerous researches conducted imperical in testing weak-form market effeciency in several stock markets and employed various techniques but the ... -
Paradigm shift in managing career plateau in organisation : the best strategy to minimize employee intention to quit
(Academic Journals,http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM, http://www.academicjournals, 2009-06)In this era of globalisation career plateau in organisations needs to be managed effectively to minimize employee's intention to quit. Many employees find themselves in jobs that offer them limited mobility opportunities ... -
The General determinants of share returns: an empirical investigation on the Dhaka Stock Exchange
(World Scientific, www.worldscientific.com, 2005)The paper investigates the underlying factors that determine share returns on the Dhaka Stock Ex change. The empirical analysis does not support the critical condition of the Capital Asset Pricing Model of a positive ... -
Nutrient limitations on aboveground grass production in four savanna types along the Kalahari Transect
(Elsevier, 2010-02-19)The Kalahari Transect (KT) is an International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme mega-transect designed to examine hydrological and ecological patterns and processes throughout the savannas of southern Africa. The KT traverses ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Bandwidth bottlenecks at the University of Botswana: complications for library, campus, and national development
(Emerald, 2005)Purpose – To examine the technical reasons for excessively slow internet speeds at the University of Botswana, to discover the present state of development efforts addressing such examples of the qualitative digital ... -
Towards a thinking military philosophical practice and Botswana military training
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)Obedience is traditionally the supreme virtue of the military and, for many people, a soldier is an unthinking automaton that has been conditioned to respond to commands and operate in strictly hierarchical environments. ... -
Sedimentological and geochemical evidence for palaeo-environmental change in the Makgadikgadi subbasin, in relation to the MOZ rift depression, Botswana
(Elsevier www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo, 2005)This work considers new evidence for palaeo environmental change taking place during the Pleistocene in northern Botswana. Duricrusted strandlines along the northeastern margin of Sua Pan provide palaeo-environmental data ... -
Pedagogical practices of business studies teachers in Botswana Junior Secondary Schools: Are teachers and curriculum planners singing from the same hymnbook?
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-06)This study was conducted to determine the extent to which the teaching practices of Business Studies teachers in Botswana junior secondary schools conform to pedagogical practices recommended by curriculum planners. The ... -
Enhancing Botswana children’s environmental knowledge, attitudes and practices through the school civic clubs
(IJESE, http://www.ijese.com, 2008-07)An intervention study was set up through the School Civic Clubs to improve Botswana Children’s environmental knowledge, attitudes and practices. The underlying assump-tion in using this informal approach was based on the ... -
Motivation, influences, and perceived effect of ICT adoption in Botswana organisations
(Emarald Group Publishing Limited, www.emeraldinsight.com/, 2008)Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to examine the motivation, and perceived effect of information and communication technology (ICT) adoption in Botswana organisations. While a conceptual model of the adoption process ... -
Cadmium sorption by Moringa stemopetala and Moringa oleifera seed powders: Batch, time, temperature, pH and adsorption isotherm studies
(Academic Journals: http://www.academicjournals.org/, 2010-05)There is a widespread recognition that the presence of heavy metals such as cadmium in water is hazardous to the environment and human health and their discharge into surface waters is of great concern worldwide. The use ...