This article explores why Botswana's environmental protection regulatory framework is failing to stem environmental deterioration. Based on the observation that such deterioration persists despite the fact that there is a framework in place, the discussion draws from experience with successful environmental protection regulatory frameworks around the world. The discussion establishes that successful environmental protection regulatory frameworks incorporate numerical quality and ecological standards, a command and control approach (with context-sensitive alternatives to account for the approach's limitations), and credible enforcement mechanisms. This article measures the extent to which Botswana's environmental protection regulatory framework incorporates these elements; it identifies that the reason why the framework has failed to stem environmental deterioration is that it does not adequately incorporate these qualities and proposes how this could be addressed going forward.

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博茨瓦纳环境保护监管框架的质量

本文探讨了博茨瓦纳的环境保护监管框架为何未能阻止环境恶化。尽管有一个框架，但这种恶化仍然存在，根据观察结果，讨论借鉴了世界各地成功的环境保护监管框架的经验。讨论确立了成功的环境保护监管框架结合了数字质量和生态标准、命令和控制方法（使用上下文敏感的替代方法来解决方法的局限性）以及可靠的执行机制。本文衡量了博茨瓦纳环境保护监管框架在多大程度上纳入了这些要素；