PhD in Natural Resources Management, University of Botswana
MA Environmental Science, University of South Africa
BA Social Sciences, University of Botswana
Professor Moseki Ronald Motsholapheko is Associate Professor in Natural Resources Management, and Graduate Studies Programme Coordinator at the Okavango Research Institute (ORI), University of Botswana. He holds a PhD in Natural Resources Management (University of Botswana), MA Environmental Science (University of South Africa), and BA Social Sciences (University of Botswana). In 2009, he was awarded the Carnegie-RISE Scholarship funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In 2015, he was Visiting Senior Scholar at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University USA. His research interests include; water and natural resources management, disaster risk management, flood risk management, water and livelihoods, household adaptation and resilience to shocks. He has participated in the implementation of several national, and international collaborative projects including; a) Kavango-Zambezi Livelihood Monitoring (KAZALIMO) Project, b) Enhanced Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management under Accelerated Climate Change (ELNAC): a large landscape social-ecological systems approach, c) Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods in Transfrontier Conservation Areas (ProSuLi), d) Water and Ecosystem Resources in Regional Development: Balancing Societal Needs and Wants and Natural Sustainability in International River Basins (WERRD); e) Social, Environmental Climate Change Impacts on Vector-borne Diseases in Arid Areas of Southern Africa-Malaria and Bilharzia in Southern Africa.
Natural resources management
Integrated water resources management
Research in wetlands
Social-ecological systems analysis
Rural livelihood diversification in developing countries
Environment, development and sustainability
Natural resources management
Transboundary water resources management
Water and livelihoods
Disaster risk management
Household adaptation and resilience to shocks
Rural livelihoods and vulnerability to climate variability and change
Dissonance in customary and statutory water management institutions in the Okavango Delta, Botswana PhD
Determinants of residential water demand in Ngamiland District, Botswana MPhil
Rural livelihoods and household adaptation to foot-and-mouth disease in Ngamiland, Botswana MPhil
Commercialisation and subsistence poaching in the Okavango Delta Botswana MPhil
Happiness and its determinants in central Maun Botswana. Dissertation for MDP
Gaodirelwe I., Motsholapheko M.R., Masunga G.S., (2020) Community perceptions of wildlife management strategies and subsistence poaching in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 25(3), 232-249.
Motsholapheko, M.R., Kgathi, D.L., Vanderpost, C. (2016) An assessment of adaptation planning for flood variability in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2015, 20(2), pp. 221–239
Motsholapheko M.R., Kgathi D.L., Vanderpost, C., (2012) Livelihood diversification: a household adaptive strategy against flood variability in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Agrekon 54(4), 41-62. DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2012.741204.
Motsholapheko M.R., Vanderpost, C., Kgathi D.L., (2012) Rural livelihoods and household adaptation to desiccation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Journal of Water and Climate Change 3(4), 300-316. DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2012.048.