Through field research the author investigates the profile, dynamics, and dimensions of environmental problems in a low income urban neighbourhood in Gaborone experiencing population growth and overcrowded settlements.
Through a case study from the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this paper analyzes governmental and intra-community responses to environmental variability.
Authors' abstract: This paper presents a preliminary analysis of secondary data coming from the 1988 Botswana Family Health Survey-II . The primary aim of the analysis is to find out how demographic strategies interplay (notably, how fertility is affected by other demographic behaviours), how they vary according to socio-economic factors and what information is needed to accertain these relationships.
The paper reports reseacrh findings using computer simulation models on the demographic and economic impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and on consequent future water scarcity in Botswana.
In this paper, the authors investigated how the direction of environmental change is influenced by natural and human factors.
The author explores recent climate change scenarios for Southern Africa in terms biodiversity, agriculture and related land uses, water resources and health issues.
The CD-ROM is part of the population-development-environment (PDE) framework of analysis and it presents major research findings, which are based on computer simulation models. These models are calibrated on data from the 1990s and test alternative long-term development paths (to the year 2021) of population, development and environment interactions.
The aim of the research is to investigate how the amount and distribution of access to farmland, and to other rural resources affects decisions within a household about fertility and migration; and via results of such decisions and otherwise, how far land / water / vegetative resources are depleted / polluted and maintained or restored. (Taken from Project Website Summary).
Projects description: The aim of the research is to investigate how the amount and distribution of access to farmland, and to other rural resources affects decisions within a household about fertility and migration; and via results of such decisions and otherwise, how far land, water, vegetative resources are depleted / polluted and maintained or restored.
The Project is EU-INCO/SCOPE/UNEP funded and is managed by Jeremy Woods (project researcher) at King's College London. It is a collaboration between research groups from 5 African regional centres (GEO3) and 3 EU countries. he extent and value of savannas is not well quantified, but they constitute about 75% of the area of Southern Africa (SA) and their ecosystem services and natural capital value has recently been estimated at about US$ 100 billion per year.
