Dr. Wame Lucretia Hambira is a Senior Research Scholar with the Okavango Research Institute of the University of Botswana. She holds a PhD in Geography (tourism & climate change) from the University of Oulu, Finland, and an MSc in Environmental Economics, University of York (UK). Her research entails analysing national and sub-regional policy frameworks to identify gaps in mainstreaming sustainable development and the green economy, as well as determining the effects of climate change on livelihoods and national economies (with special interest in the tourism sector) as well as identifying potential response trajectories.