Okavango Delta Management Plan 2021 -2028

ORI researdchers,  led by Prof Thakadu have sucessfully completed the evaluation of the Okavango Delta Management Plan (ODMP) 2021-2028.

 Read more: https://www.ub.bw/news/ori-researchers-submit-okavango-delta-management-plan-report-government

Refereed Book Chapters by ORI researchers

 The following are refereed book chapters by ORI researchers for 2020.

1.            Gondo, R. and Kolawole, O.D. (2020). A review of Botswana national water policy. In: Pešić, A.M. and Jakovljević, D. (eds.), Water Resources Management: Methods, Applications and Challenges, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,   pp. 329-352.

2.            Hambira W.L. (2020). A review of community social upliftment practices by tourism multinational companies in Botswana. In M.T. Stone, M. Lenao & N. Moswete (eds.) Natural Resources, Tourism and community livelihoods in southern Africa. Challenges of sustainable development. Routledge: London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429289422 (published online in November 2019)

3.            Hambira, W. L., & Mbaiwa, J. E. (2020). Tourism and climate change in Africa. In Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa (pp. 98-116). Routledge.

4.            Hens, L. and Keitumetse, S.O. (2020). Realizing Sustainable Development Goals in the Southern Sub-Region of Africa. In Keitumetse, SO., Hens, L and Norris, D (Eds) Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries: Case Studies from Botswana’s Journey towards the 2030 Agenda (Geneva: Springer Publishing International). ISBN: 978-3-030-48350-0.

5.            Keitumetse S.O. (2021) Needle in a Haystack? Cultural Heritage Resources in Designated Nature Environments of Southern Africa. In: Baillie B., Sørensen M.L.S. (eds) African Heritage Challenges. Globalization, Urbanization and Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4366-1_2

6.            Keitumetse, S.O. (2020). Linking African World Heritage and Sustainable Development: Appraisal of Policies, Concepts, Principles and Approaches to Agenda 2030, in Keitumetse, SO., Hens, L and Norris, D (Eds) Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries: Case Studies from Botswana’s Journey towards the 2030 Agenda (Geneva: Springer Publishing International). ISBN: 978-3-030-48350-0.

7.            Keitumetse, SO., Hens, L and Norris, D (2020). Sustainability Reporting in African Countries: The Research Outlet Approach. In Keitumetse, SO., Hens, L and Norris, D (Eds) Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries: Case Studies from Botswana’s Journey towards the 2030 Agenda (Geneva: Springer Publishing International). ISBN: 978-3-030-48350-0.

8.            Keotshephile Kashe, Demel Teketay, Benjamin Thupe. (2020). Potential impact of alien invasive plant species on ecosystem services in Botswana: A review on Prosopis juliflora and Salvinia molesta. In Keitumetse et al (Eds). Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries: Case studies from Botswana’s journey towards the 2030 Agenda. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-030-48350-0

9.            Kashe, K., Kolawole, O.D., Moroke, T.S. and Mogobe, O. (2020). Dryland crop production in Botswana. Constraints and opportunities for smallholder arable farmers. In O.D. Kolawole (Ed). Farmers and Farming Practices: Challenges and Prospects. pp. 151-184. New York: Nova Science Publishers

10.         Kolawole, O.D. (2020): Introduction. In: Kolawole, O.D (ed.), Smallholder Farmers and Farming Practices: Challenges and Prospects, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp. 5-13. 

ORI 2020 Publications

 These are the last titles for 2020 ori publications:

23.         Mogomotsi, P.K., Mogomotsi, GEJ. and Hambira, W.L. (2020). Illicit Capital Flows and Money Laundering in Botswana: An Institutional Economics Analysis. Africa Development, XLV (1): 117-131.

24.         Mogomotsi, P.K., Mogomotsi, GEJ., Dipogiso, K. and Phonchi, N.D. (2020). An Analysis of Communities’ Attitudes Toward Wildlife and Implications for Wildlife Sustainability. Tropical Conservation Science, 13: 1-9. DOI: 10.1177/1940082920915603

25.         Mogomotsi, P.K., Saayman, M. and Saayman, A. (2020). Developing a framework for sustainable coexistence between eco-tourism and agriculture in Botswana. Nature & Faune, 33(1), 38-43.

26.         Mogomotsi, P.K., Sekelemani, A and Mogomotsi, GEJ. (2020). Climate Change Adaptation Strategies of Small-scale Farmers in Ngamiland East, Botswana. Climatic Change, 159, 441–460. DOI:10.1007/s10584-019-02645-w

27.         Mogomotsi, P.K., Stone, L.S., Dube, N. and Mogomotsi, GEJ. (2020). Factors Influencing Community Participation in Wildlife Conservation. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 25(4). DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2020.1748769.

28.         Mogomotsi, PK., Mogomotsi, GEJ., Dipogiso, K. and Phonchi, N.D. (2020). An Analysis of Communities’ Attitudes Toward Wildlife and Implications for Wildlife Sustainability. Tropical Conservation Science. 13: 1-9. http://doi.org/10.1177/1940082920915603

29.         Motsholapheko M.R., Ngwenya B.N. (2020) Access to water resources and household vulnerability to malaria in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. In Filho W.L. (Ed) African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. New Delhi: Springer Nature.

30.         Owen-Smith, N., Hopcraft, G., Morrison, T., Chamaille-Jammes, S., Hetem, R., Bennitt, E. & Van Langevelde, F. (2020) Movement ecology of large herbivores in African savannas: current knowledge and gaps. Mammal Review,   10.1111/mam.12193.

31.         Phaladze, O., & Keitumetse, S. O. Library Collection as a Source of Communal Heritage Reconstruction: Cataloging, Digitizing, and Interpreting the San/Bushmen Collection at the University of Botswana–Okavango Research Institute Library. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, https://doi.org/10.1177/1550190620940969

32.         Phonchi-Tshekiso, N.D, Mogomotsi, P.K., Mogomotsi, GEJ., and Gondo, R. (2020). A Qualitative Assessment of Solid Waste Management in Peleng Township in Lobatse, Botswana Considering Spatial Aspects. Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy, 2: 219–230. DOI: 10.1007/s42768-020-00042-z

33.         Rapinyana, Oga; Kubanji, Rebecca, Seboni, Naomi Mmapelo, Phaladze, Nthabiseng, Ngwenya, Barbara Ntombi, Seloilwe (2020) Sexuality Issues Among Adolescents Living with HIV and AIDS in Botswana Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies (JHSSS)ISSN: 2663-7197 DOI: 10.32996/jhsss

34.         Saarinen, J., Moswete, N., Atlhopheng, J. & W. Hambira (2020). Changing socio-ecologies of Kalahari: Local perceptions towards environmental change and tourism in Kgalagadi, Botswana. Development Southern Africa, https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2020.1809997

35.         Sekelemani, A., Mogomotsi, P.K., Lekhane, O., Stone, L.S. and Mogomotsi, G.E.J. (2020). Farmers’ perceptions of climate change and their adaptation strategies: The case of Ngamiland East, Botswana. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2020.1748749

36.         Stone, L.S and Nyaupane, G.P. (2020). Local residents’ pride, tourists’ playground: the misrepresentation and exclusion of local residents in tourism. Current Issues in Tourism, 23(11): 1426-1442.

37.         Stone, LS., Stone, MT., Mogomotsi, PK and Mogomotsi, GEJ. (2021). The Impacts of Covid-19 on Nature-based tourism in Botswana: Implications for Community Development. Tourism Review International.  DOI: 10.3727/154427221X16098837279958

38.         Stone, M.T. and Stone, L.S. (2020). Challenges of community-based tourism in Botswana: a review of literature. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 75(2): 181-193.

39.         Stone, M.T. and Stone, L.S. (2020). Community-Based ecotourism and bushmeat consumption dynamics: Implications for conservation and community development. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1845708

40.         Tamapo Moatlhodi and Barbara N. Ngwenya (2020) Gender Dynamics in household property inheritance among Rural Communities: The case of BaKalanga BakaNswazwi in North Eastern Botswana International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies December 2020, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 1-3 DOI: 10.15640/ijgws.v8n2p1

41.         Tsheboeng G, Teketay D, Murray-Hudson M, Kashe K, Mmusi M, Madome J. (2020). Classification of riparian woody plant communities along the Thamalakane River in northwestern Botswana. Botswana Journal of Agriculture and Applied Sciences 14:1, 47-59

42.         Tsheboeng, G., M. Bonyongo and M. Murray-Hudson (2020). "Environmental factors that influence species diversity of floodplain plant communities in different flooding phases in the Okavango Delta, Botswana." Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation 50: 1-11

43.         Vittoz, P., Pellacani, F., Romanens, R., Mahinga, A., Verrecchia, E. P., & Fynn, R. W. (2020). Plant community diversity in the Chobe Enclave, Botswana: Insights for functional habitat heterogeneity for herbivores. Koedoe, 62(1), 17.

44.         Ward, D., Kirkman, K. P., Tsvuura, Z., Morris, C., & Fynn, R. W. (2020). Are there common assembly rules for different grasslands? Comparisons of long‐term data from a subtropical grassland with temperate grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(5), 780-791.