This case study focuses on the different concepts of landscapes of different communities making use of the !Khuiseb catchment area (KCA; central Namibia). They conceptualise their environment in different ways due to their different cultural backgrounds and daily experiences with it. It shows how the desert environment of the lower !Khuiseb River is viewed by indigenous Topnaar people and how the more productive highland of the upper !Khuiseb River is valued by farmers of European descent. As we are living in an increasingly globalised world concepts are also imported from foreign environments. These concepts have an impact upon the discourses on the 'new' environment. On the basis of the conceptualisation of 'drought' and 'aesthetics of landscape' by different people this chapter elaborates on how concepts can frame the present use of the environment and the spatial distribution of people within the !Khuiseb catchment area.