In July 2008, the Namibian Coast Conservation and Management Project (NACOMA) commissioned DHI Water & Environment to develop a user friendly, decision guiding and policy relevant Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the coastal zones of the Karas and Hardap regions of southern Namibia. In the Terms of reference (ToR), it was made clear that this SEA for the Karas and Hardap regions' coastal zones was to be developed in similar fashion to the earlier SEA conducted by the same consultants for the Erongo and Kunene regions' coastal zones of northern Namibia, and thereby accomplish a standardised assessment of development and conservation potentials for the entire coastal area of Namibia. This draft SEA report should thus be seen as a companion piece to the earlier report: the same format is followed, and, where relevant, text is repeated in order that the two reports mirror one another.