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Climate has a central influence on many human needs and activities, such as agriculture, housing, human health, water resources, and energy use. The influence of climate on vegetation and soil type is so strong that the earliest climate classification schemes where often based more on these factors than on the meteorological variables. While technology can be used to mitigate the effects of unfavorable climatic conditions, climate fluctuations that result in significant departures from normal cause serious problems for modern industrialized societies as much as for primitive ones. The goals of climatology are to provide a comprehensive description of the Earth's climate, to understand its features in terms of fundamental physical principles, and to develop models of the Earth's climate that will allow the prediction of future changes that may result from natural and human causes. (Source: PARCOR)

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Bond W, Midgley GF, Woodward F 2003. What controls South African vegetation-climate or fire?. South African Journal of Botany 69 (1) 79 - 91

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Alexander W 2007. Climate Change in Disarray - An African Perspective. Frontier Backgrounder 51 1 - 5

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Climate Change in Disarray_An African Perspective.pdf	349.1 KB

5: Why is climate change adaptation so important to Namibia?.

Website link:http://www.met.gov.na/

Angula M 2010. Gender and climate change : Namibia case study.

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Gender and climate change_Namibia case study.pdf	668.33 KB

Website link:http://www.boell.org.za

Meraka Institute African Advanced Institute for Information and Communication Technology. RSRU - Satellite Derived Vegetation phenology.

Website link:http://www.meraka.csir.co.za/rsru_vegetation_phenology.htm

Miller RMcG 2014. Evidence for the evolution of the Kalahari dunes from the Auob River, southeastern Namibia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 195-204

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.955555

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Website link:http://www.ipcc.ch/index.htm

Jack SL, Hoffman MT, Rohde RF, Durbach I 2016. Climate change sentinel or false prophet? The case of Aloe dichotoma. Diversity and Distributions 1-13

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/ddi.12438/full

Mainah J 2006. Socio and economic importance of Grewia flava to the people of western parts of Kweneng District and factors affecting its spatial distribution in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 38 11-19

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/41235983

Ringrose S, Lesolle D, Botshoma T, Gopolang B, Vanderpost C, Matheson W 1999. An analysis of vegetation cover components in relation to climatic trends along the Botswana Kalahari Transect. Botswana Notes and Records 31 33-52

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980237

Andersson RJF 1970. Climatic factors in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 2 75-78

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980767

Brown RC 1974. Climate and climatic trends in the Ghanzi District. Botswana Notes and Records 6 133-146

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40959214

Greenbaum N, Schwartz U, Benito G, Porat N, Cloete GC, Enzel Y 2014. Paleohydrology of extraordinary floods along the Swakop River at the margin of the Namib Desert and their paleoclimate implications. Quaternary Science Reviews 103 (1) 153-169

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379114003412

Tyson PD, Preston-Whyte RA, Diab RD 1976. Towards An Inversion Climatology Of Southern Africa: Part I, Surface Inversions. South African Geographical Journal 58 (2) 151-163

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.1976.10559577#.VHgnUWctBHg

Preston-Whyte RA, Diab RD, Tyson PD 1977. Towards an inversion climatology of southern Africa: Part II, non-surface inversions in the lower atmosphere. South African Geographical Journal 59 (1) 45-59

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.1977.9713494#.VHL4hFItBHg

Jackson SP 1941. A Note on the Climate of Walvis Bay. South African Geographical Journal 23 (1) 46-53

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.1941.10559213#.VG24DlItBHg

Smith RMH, Swart R 2002. Changing Fluvial Environments and Vertebrate Taphonomy in Response to Climatic Drying in a Mid-Triassic Rift Valley Fill: The Omingonde Formation (Karoo Supergroup) of Central Namibia. Palaois 17 (3) 249-267

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Changing Fluvial Environments and Vertebrate Taphonomy in Response to Climatic Drying in a Mid_Triassic Rift Valley Fill.pdf	2.36 MB

Rohde R, Hoffman T, Jack A, Sullivan S 2017. Climate change complexity: repeat landscape photographs of the Pro-Namib and Namib Desert.

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Rohde et al_2017 Climate change complexity_research blog.pdf	1.18 MB

Bunting EL, Southworth J, Herrero H, Ryan SJ, Waylen P 2018. Understanding long-term savanna vegetation persistence across three drainage basins in southern Africa. Remote Sensing 10 (7) 1013

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Bunting et al 2018_Savanna Vegetation in Draingae basins in Southern Africa.pdf	2.44 MB

Tervo-Kankare K, Saarinen J, Kimaro ME, Moswete NN 2017. Nature-based tourism operators' responses to changing environment and climate in Uis, Namibia.. African Geographical Review (DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2017.1286246)

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2017.1286246

Kgathi DL, Mmopelwa G, Vanderpost C, Wolski P, Motsholapheko MR 2013. Impacts of desiccation on ecosystem services and household adaptation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region 263–277

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Impacts of desiccation on ecosystem services and household adaptation in the Okavango Delta_Botswana.pdf	3.02 MB

Weber T 2013. Seronga - Climate. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region 133-134

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Seronga_Climate.pdf	1.72 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) 2014. First Biennial Update Report of the Republic of Namibia under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), November 2014.

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First Biennial Update Report of Namibia under UNFCCC 2014.pdf	14.16 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment. Chapter for Namibia's third National communication to the UNFCCC.

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Climate Change vulnerability and adaptation.pdf	121.07 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), Ministry of Agriculture Water and Forestry (MAWF) Scaling up community resilience to climate variability and climate change in Northern Namibia, with special focus on women and children.

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Scaling up community resilience to climate variability and climate change in Northern Namibia.pdf	4.54 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2013 – 2020.

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National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2013 - 2020.pdf	15.26 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2013 – 2020.

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National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan brochure 2013 - 2020 brochure.pdf	1.15 MB

Humphrey G The role of humans, climate and vegetation in the complex fire regimes of north-east Namibia.

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Thesis_Bwabwata National Park_Humphrey_2018.pdf	12 MB

Humphrey G 2018. The role of humans, climate and vegetation in the complex fire regimes of north-east Namibia - Executive Summary.

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Executive Summary_Thesis_Bwabwata National Park_2019.pdf	4.28 MB

Jarre A, Hutchings L, Kirkman S, Kreiner A, Tchipalanga PCM, Kainge P, Uanivi U, Van der Plas A, Blamey L, Coetzee J, Lamont T, Samaai T, Verheye H, Yemane D, Axelsen BE, Ostrowski M, Stenevik EK, Loeng H 2015. Synthesis: Climate effects on biodiversity, abundance and distribution of marine organisms in the Benguela. Fisheries Oceanography (24) 122-149

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Synthesis_Climate effects on biodiversity_abundance and distribution of marine organisms in the Benguela.pdf	3.83 MB

King JM, Brown CA, Barnes J 2009. Okavango River Basin Environmental Flow Assessment Project Final Report.

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Okavango River Basin Environmental Flow Assessment Project Final Report.pdf	1.63 MB

Nußbaum S 2003. Ecological studies on the vegetation of a semi-arid desert following a climatic gradient (Richtersveld, South Africa).

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Ecological studies on the vegetation of a semi_arid desert following a climatic gradient.pdf	25.17 MB

Kinahan J 2016. Human responses to climatic variation in the Namib Desert during the Last 1,000 Years. African Archaeological Review (33) 183–203

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-016-9221-3

Abera TA 2020. Climatic impacts of vegetation dynamics in Eastern Africa.

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Climatic impacts of vegetation dynamics in Eastern Africa.pdf	3.48 MB

Mulwa CK, Visser M 2020. Farm diversification as an adaptation strategy to climatic shocks and implications for food security in northern Namibia. World Development 129

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X20300322

Andersen H, Cermak J, Fuchs J, Knippertz P, Gaetani M, Quinting J, Sippel S, Vogt R 2020. Synoptic-scale controls of fog and low clouds in the Namib Desert. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 3415-3438

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Synoptic_scale controls of fog and low clouds in the Namib Desert_2020.pdf	17.89 MB

Railsback LB, Liang F, Brook GA, Voarintsoa NRG, Sletten HR, Marais E, Hardt B, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2018. The timing, two-pulsed nature, and variable climatic expression of the 4.2 ka event: A review and new high-resolution stalagmite data from Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 186 78-90

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Guo D, Guo R, Cui Y, Midgley GF, Altwegg R, Thiart C 2011. Climate Change Impact on Quiver Trees in Arid Namibia and South Africa. Climate Change - Geophysical Foundations and Ecological Effects 323-324

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Climate Change Impact on Quiver Trees in Arid Namibia and South Africa.pdf	723.41 KB

Drew G 2004. Modelling vegetation dynamics and their feedbacks over Southern Africa in response to climate change forcing.

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Modelling vegetation dynamics and their feedbacks over Southern Africa in response to climate change forcing.pdf	56.84 MB

Bergh NG, Hedderson TA, Linder HP, Bond WJ 2007. Palaeoclimate‐induced range shifts may explain current patterns of spatial genetic variation in renosterbos (Elytropappus rhinocerotis , Asteraceae). Taxon 56 (2) 393-408

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Palaeoclimate_induced range shifts may explain current patterns of spatial genetic variation in renosterbos.pdf	542.61 KB

Eastment C 2020. How has woody vegetation changed in north-east Namibia in response to land use, climate and fire?.

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How has woody vegetation changed in north_east Namibia in response to land use_climate and fire_Conor Eastment_2020.pdf	4.83 MB

Schnitzler J, Graham CH, Dormann CF, Schiffers K, Linder HP 2012. Climatic niche evolution and species diversiﬁcation in the Cape ﬂora,South Africa. Journal of Biogeography 39 2201–2211

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Climatic niche evolution and speciesdiversiﬁcation in the Cape ﬂora_South Africa.pdf	1.57 MB

Scott L, Neumann FH, Brook GA, Bousman CB, Norström E, Metwally AA 2012. Terrestrial fossil-pollen evidence of climate change during the last 26 thousand years in Southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 32 100-118

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379111003532

Tietjen B, Jeltsch F, Zehe E, Classen N, Groengroeft A, Schiffers K, Oldeland J 2009. Effects of climate change on the coupled dynamics of water and vegetation in drylands. Ecohydrology 3 (2) 226-237

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Effects of climate change on the coupled dynamics of water and vegetation in drylands.pdf	664.11 KB

Republic of Namibia 2021. Namibia's Updated Nationally Determined Contribution.

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Namibias Updated NDC_ FINAL 25 July 2021.pdf	1.36 MB

2011. Climate Change Adaptation in SADC - A Strategy for the Water Sector.

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Climate Change Adaptation in SADC SADC 2011.pdf	3.09 MB

Crerar S, Volkholz J, Lutz J 2011. Projection of impacts and Guidelines on Climate Change AdaptationrnStrategies.

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Projection of impacts and Guidelines on Climate Change Adaptation.pdf	4.36 MB

2011. National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia, October 2011.

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National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia 2011.pdf	3.96 MB

Climate Change: Impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation in developing countries.

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Climate Change_ Impacts_ vulnerabilities and adaptation in developing countries.pdf	3.12 MB

1997. The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability. Section 2: Africa

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The Regional Impacts on Climate Change.pdf	4.19 MB