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A type of organic chemical reaction in which a compound is converted into a simpler compound in stages. (Source: ALL2)
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1996. Discourses on land degradation in the Uluguru mountains, Tanzania: Evolution and influences. Journal of Rural Studies 12 (2) 187-199
2000. Landscape(s) in Transition: an Environmental History of a Village in North-east Botswana. Journal of Southern African Studies 26 (4) 760-782
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2637570
2000. Some causes and strategies pertaining to land degradation in southern Africa. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
29 24-46
2004. Monitoring deserti?cation and land degradation over sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Remote Sensing
25 (3) 573-592
1999. Environmental change in the Kalahari: integrated land degradation studies for Nonequilibrium dryland environments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (3) 420-442
2000. The environmental impact of livestock ranches in the Kalahari, Botswana: natural resource use, ecological change and human response in a dynamic dryland system. Land Degradation and Development 11 (4) 327-341
2005. Perceiving Land-Degrading Activities from the Lay Perspective in Northern China. Environmental Management 36 (5) 711-725
1999. Water resource development and its influence on the environment in arid areas of China - the case of the Hei River basin. Journal of Arid Environments 43 (2) 121-131
2002. Land-use intensity affects range condition in arid to semi-arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments
52 (3) 389-403
1998. Deriving indicators of soil degradation from soil aggregation studies in southeastern Spain and southern France. Geomorphology 23 (2-4) 307-321
1998. Monitoring 20 years of increased grazing impact on the Greek island of Crete with earth observation satellites. Journal of Arid Environments 39 165-178
2003. Delineation of erosion classes in semi-arid southern African grasslands using vegetation indices from optical remote sensing data. Hydrological Processes
17 (5) 917-928
2000. Interpretations of environmental change and diversity: a critical approach to indications of degradation — the case of Kalakamate, Northeast Botswana. Land Degradation and Development
11 (6) 438-451
2001. Desertification in reverse? Observations from northern Burkina Faso. Global Environmental Change
11 (4) 271-282
2001. Monitoring land-cover changes in semi-arid regions: remote sensing data and field observations in the Ferlo, Senegal. Journal of Arid Environments
48 (2) 129-148
2004. Beyond the "climate versus grazing" impasse: using remote sensing to investigate the effects of grazing system choice on vegetation cover in the eastern Karoo. Journal of Arid Environments 57 (3) 381-408
1998. On our failure to control desertification: implications for global change issues, and a research agenda for the future. Environmental Science and Policy 1 (2) 71-78
2007. Using farmers criteria to assess profitability of fodder shrubs in the desert margins of west Africa. Land Degradation and Development
18 (6) 670-679
2008. A Review of Land Degraradatation Assessment Methods.
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| A Review of Land Degraradatation Assessment Methods.pdf | 711.3 KB |
2004. Land Degradation Monitoring in Namibia: A First Approximation. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
99 (1 - 3) 5 - 21
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| Land Degradation Monitoring in Namibia_A First Approximation.pdf | 1.52 MB |
1997. Sub-regional action programme to combat desertification in southern Africa.
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| Sub_regional action programme to combat desertification in southern Africa.pdf | 99.14 KB |
1998. Combating desertification in the southern Kalahari: Connecting science with community action in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 285 - 297
2001. Quantified range condition assessment of open Camelthorn savanna along a degradation gradient. African Journal of Range & Forage Science
18 (2 - 3) 111 - 116
2000. Perceptions and realities of land degradation in arid Otjimbingwe, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 337 - 356
1998. Land degradation is not a necessary outcome of communal pastoralism in arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments
40 (4) 357 - 371
1999. The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood-and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia. Global Ecology and Biogeography
8 (3 - 4) 257 - 277
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| The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood_and shrub_lands in arid north_west Namibia.pdf | 264.41 KB |
2004. An approach to tree thinning to structure southern African savannas for long-term restoration from bush encroachment. Journal of Environmental Management 71 (2) 179 - 191
1995. Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.
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| Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.pdf | 80.99 KB |
1993. Response of a raptor community to shrinking area and degradation of tropical rain-forest in the South Western Ghats (India).. Ecography
16 (2) 97 – 110
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3683006
2005. Biomass changes in north-western Namibia: First results from a remote sensing modelling approach. EARSeL eProceedings
4 (2) 157 - 170
2007. Local and national perceptions of environmental change in central Northern Namibia: Do they correspond?. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (3) 506 - 525
2007. Pastoralists perceptions and realities of vegetationchange and browse consumption in the northern Kalahari, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (4) 716 - 730
2007. Shrub encroachment affects mammalian carnivore abundance and species richness in semiarid rangelands. Acta Oecologica
31 (1) 86 - 92
2004. Assessing the effects of human-induced land degradation in the former homelands of northern South Africa with a 1 km AVHRR NDVI time-series. Remote Sensing of Environment 91 (1) 47 - 67
Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1563
2007. Can human-induced land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability? A case study in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environment
68 (2) 271 - 297
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| Can human_induced land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability.pdf | 1.45 MB |
Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa (BIOTA).
Website link:http://www.biota-africa.org/contact_south_ba.php
FFEM: Fonds Francais pour l'Environnement Mondial (French Facilities for Global Environment).
Website link:http://www.ffem.net/
2011. Improving the enabling environment to combat land degradation: Institutional, financial, legal and science-policy challenges and solutions. Land Degradation and Development 22 (2) 299-312
2014. Combating land degradation in Namibia over 23 years: learning what matters in DLDD. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 171-174
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.949902
2010. Space use of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) under different degradation states. African Journal of Ecology
48 (1) 96-104
2014. Risk assessment methodology for shut-down and abandoned mine sites in Namibia. Journal of Geochemical Exploration
144 (C) 572-580
2016. Designing a new science-policy communication mechanism for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Environmental Science and Policy 63 122-131
2003. The role of inselbergs in a changing world - global trends. Diversity and Distributions 9 375-383
2008. Limits of acceptable change for tourism in the Okavango Delta. Botswana Notes and Records 39 (Tourism as a Sustainable Development Factor) 98-112
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/41236637
1998. Aspects of ecological change in the Botswana Kalahari. Botswana Notes and Records
30 121-138
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980209
1992. Procedural considerations and results of Landsat Multi-Temporal Analyses concerned with range degradation (1972-1987) in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 24 205-215
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979924