Chobe district bush fire risk management plan

During the 2008 fire season in Botswana large tracks of land were indiscriminately burnt. After this event the Botswana Government looked to outside assistance to help them prevent, mitigate, and suppress Bush Fires in Botswana. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW- RFS), from Australia was chosen from many submissions to assist Botswana by describing, and demonstrating all that Australia knew about suppressing wildfires. Australia and Botswana have similar climates and issues regarding bush fire. In addition, Australia depends on a volunteer culture and workforce which their Batswana counterparts were keen to employ

Botswana component : integrated development plan 2013-2017

The Botswana Government has been unparalleled in her commitment to biodiversity conservation. Large tracks of pristine landscapes have been gazetted as national parks, game reserves and wildlife management areas, allowing ecosystems and natural processes to function with little or no interventions from anthropogenic activity. The country has now joined efforts with the Governments of the Republics of Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to establish and develop a major Transfrontier Conservation Area. This transboundary initiative, known as the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) is destined to be a premier tourism destination that incorporates large portions of the Kavango and Zambezi River Basins

Northern Bostwana human wildlife coexistence project : project evaluation report

The Northern Botswana Human Wildlife Coexistence Project is a six year project (2010 – 2016) implemented by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks and supported by the Global Environment Facility in partnership with the Government of Botswana. The project has successfully achieved the outcomes for which it was established, namely to develop and test an approach towards mitigating the effects of Human Wildlife Conflict

India's intended nationally determined contribution: working towards climate justice

"With the responsibility of ensuring a reasonable HDI for the country and the economic progress of its vast population, India has attempted to follow a path 'cleaner' than the one followed by many countries in the past. Today these countries may be in the forefront of Page 3 of 38 development, even providing a model of growth to other developing countries. However, if India compares the emission intensity of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) terms at present with those countries at a similar level of development, it is seen that their emissions then were far more than India’s at present. This is as much on account of India being open and innovative in embracing new technology and a cleaner way of doing things, as it is from the inherent principles of sustainability ingrained in its thought process.

A probabilistic risk assessment of the national economic impacts of regulatory drought management on irrigated agriculture

Drought frequency and intensity is expected to increase in many regions worldwide, and water shortages could become more extreme, even in humid temperate climates. To protect the environment and secure water supplies, water abstraction for irrigation can be mandatorily reduced by environmental regulators. Such abstraction restrictions can result in economic impacts on irrigated agriculture. This study provides a novel approach for the probabilistic risk assessment of potential future economic losses in irrigated agriculture arising from the interaction of climate change and regulatory drought management, with an application to England and Wales. Hydro‐meteorological variability is considered within a synthetic dataset of daily rainfall and river flows for a baseline period (1977‐2004), and for projections for near (2022‐2049) and far (2072‐2099) futures. The probability, magnitude and timing of abstraction restrictions are derived by applying rainfall and river flow triggers in 129 catchments. The risk of economic losses at the catchment level is then obtained from the occurrences of abstraction restrictions combined with spatially distributed crop‐specific economic losses. Results show that restrictions will become more severe, frequent and longer in the future. The highest economic risks are projected where drought‐sensitive crops with a high financial value are concentrated in catchments with increasingly uncertain water supply. This research highlights the significant economic losses associated with mandatory drought restrictions experienced by the agricultural sector and supports the need for environmental regulators and irrigators to collaboratively manage scarce water resources to balance environmental and economic considerations

Willingness-to-Pay for Improved Air Quality in Hamilton-Wentworth: A Choice Experiment

Prepared for Hamilton-Wentworth Air Quality Initiative pursuant to a memorandum of understanding among McMaster University, the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy and the Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth, dated November 5, 1996.