Realizing sustainable development is a major challenge for most African countries.
Economic growth in most African countries is largely centered on the extraction of natural …

Botswana is widely known as the African 'exception', which refers to its unmatched record of
internal peace, economic growth and democratic governance since independence in 1966 …

The tourism industry has been identified as an industry to diversify the economy away from
capital-intensive and vulnerable diamond mining sector. In Botswana, the industry is mainly …

Botswana is a semi-arid country with a total land area of 582,000 km2 and a population
density of 2.7 per km2. It is characterized by periodic droughts that partly explain the …

The present symposium recognises the basic essential of reconciling economic, ecological
and socio-political problems as axiomatic for any sound rural development, based on the …

With a stable democracy and strong economic growth since 1966, the country's success is in
danger of being taken for granted. Diamond revenues are likely to decline in the near future …

Based on 15 months of fieldwork in three Basarwa villages on the northern periphery of the
Okavango Delta, Botswana, this thesis is a study of the indeterminate yet universally …

The main objective of this chapter is to examine the concept of sustainable development and
how it relates to conflicts in the use of natural resources in Botswana. Botswana is one of the …

Botswana is a land-locked, ecologically marginal country. Though like many sub-Saharan
African (SSAn) countries it is made up of a mosaic of different tribes, the dominant factor has …

Botswana is a sparsely populated, arid, landlocked country; at independence it was also
one of the poorest countries in the world, with per capita income of just $70 a year. In the first …