Environmental change in the mid-boteti area of north-central Botswana: Biophysical processes and human perceptions

Environmental Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 397-410

  Ringrose, Susan ^a   Chanda, Raban ^a   Nkambwe, Musisi ^a   Sefe, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Degradation; Drought; Environmental change; Perceptions; Resource depletion

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BOTSWANA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND USE; POPULATION DENSITY; VEGETATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GIS; LAND DEGRADATION; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; PERCEPTION; ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; DESERTIFICATION; GRAZING; GROUNDWTAER TABLE; SOIL EROSION; VEGETATION COVER;

BOTSWANA, BOTETI;

DATA REDUCTION; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; RAIN; REVEGETATION;

BIOPHYSICAL PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; HAZARD RESEARCH TECHNIQUES; HUMAN PERCEPTIONS; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; NATURAL VEGETATION; NORTH CENTRAL BOTSWANA;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 0029662546     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01203847     Document Type: Article

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