Beschreibung
Autorenporträt
Dr Susan O. Keitumetse obtained a BA degree (Archaeology and Environmental Sciences) and Post Graduate Diploma in Education (Geography and History) from the University of Botswana. She went on to compete for and win two separate Commonwealth scholarships both to University of Cambridge, UK, where she pursued an MPhil (Archaeological Heritage Management and Museums) and later on a PhD (African Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development). During her postgraduate studies, she combined both environmental science and archaeology disciplines to venture into the broader cultural and heritage management studies with a particular focus on sustainable development and cultural heritage management at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Following on this background, and with a view to catalyze a linkage between environment and cultural heritage in Africa, Dr Keitumetse conducted various researches and published works that illustrate the relevance of cultural and heritage resources for the broader environmental conservation. She is currently employed at the University of Botswana's Okavango Research Institute as a research scholar in cultural heritage and tourism where she undertakes applied research in areas such as the Okavango inland Delta World Heritage Site and the Kalahari Desert areas of Botswana. Dr Keitumetse continues to work towards developing a cultural heritage management program for Africa using experience from her work. Of particular note is her developing a conservation model of Community-Based Cultural Heritage Resources Management (COBACHREM) to guide local communities and practitioners' initiatives towards sustainable use of cultural heritage resources for social development. Chapter 4 provides detailed contents of the model. Dr Susan Keitumetse has published extensively in the field of cultural heritage conservation and management in Africa. Her works comprise of peer-reviewed articles in international journals; peer-reviewed book chapters; refereed conference proceedings; and technical reports in international periodicals, magazines and newspapers. She has presented written and oral papers in numerous international conferences on the subject of African cultural heritage and development around the world, including Britain, America and Europe. Dr Keitumetse currently serves as an associate editor of the journal 'Environment, Development, and Sustainability' published by Springer. She also sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, published by Taylor and Francis (formerly published by Maney Publishers), as well as the International Journal of Heritage and Sustainable Development published by Green Lines Institute, Portugal. Dr Keitumetse has both national and international experience from various African countries, as well as institutions outside Africa. In addition to competing for and securing two international academic scholarships for her post-graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, she has won academic grants for research fellowships in international institutions that include the Rockefeller Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, and the Watson Scholar Fellowship at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA. Outside academia and in the international development arena, Dr Keitumetse has worked and continues to work with institutions such as UNESCO where she has been engaged as an expert advisor, examiner, facilitator, and consultant within the intangible cultural heritage section in countries such as Uganda, Swaziland, and Lesotho. She has corporate governance experience from African parastatal institutions dealing with environment, heritage, tourism and land use planning. These are derived from her tenure as a board director of Botswana Tourism Organisation for six years, where she also chaired a quality assurance c
