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The long-term fluctuations in temperature, precipitation, wind, and all other aspects of the Earth's climate. External processes, such as solar-irradiance variations, variations of the Earth's orbital parameters (eccentricity, precession, and inclination), lithosphere motions, and volcanic activity, are factors in climatic variation. Internal variations of the climate system, e.g., changes in the abundance of greenhouse gases, also may produce fluctuations of sufficient magnitude and variability to explain observed climate change through the feedback processes interrelating the components of the climate system. (Source: GSFC)

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New M, Hewitson B, Stephenson DB, Tsiga A, Kruger A, Manhique A, Gomez B, Coelho CAS, Masisi DN, Kululanga E, Mbambalala E, Adesina F, Saleh H, Kanyanga J, Adosi J, Bulane L, Fortunata L, Mdoka ML, Lajoie R 2006. Evidence of trends in daily climate extremes over southern and west Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (1984-2012) 111 (D14) 27

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005JD006289/abstract

Power HC, Mills DM 2005. Solar radiation climate change over southern Africa and an assessment of the radiative impact of volcanic eruptions. International Journal of Climatology 25 (3) 295-318

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.1134/abstract

Musil CF, Schmiedel U, Midgley GF 2005. Lethal effects of experimental warming approximating a future climate scenario on southern African quartz-field succulents: a pilot study. New Phytologist 165 (2) 539-547

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Foden W, Midgley GF, Hughes G, Bond WJ, Thuiller W, Hoffman MT, Kaleme P, Underhill LG, Rebelo A, Hannah L 2007. A changing climate is eroding the geographical range of the Namib Desert tree Aloe through population declines and dispersal lags. Diversity and Distributions 13 (5) 645-653

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Dupont LM 2006. Late Pliocene vegetation and climate in Namibia (southern Africa) derived from palynology of ODP Site 1082. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7 (5)

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005GC001208/abstract

Brook GA, Srivastava P, Marais E 2006. Characteristics and OSL minimum ages of relict fluvial deposits near Sossus Vlei, Tsauchab River, Namibia, and a regional climate record for the last 30?ka. Journal of Quaternary Science 21 (4) 347-362

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Potts WM, Henriques R, Santos CV, Munnik K, Ansorge I, Dufois F, Booth AJ, Kirchner C, Sauer WHH, Shaw PW 2014. Ocean warming, a rapid distributional shift, and the hybridization of a coastal fish species. Global Change Biology 20 (9) 2765-2777

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12612/abstract

Livingstone I 2003. A twenty-one-year record of surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28 (9) 1025-1031

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1000/abstract

Hulley GC, Hook SJ, Manning E, Lee S-Y, Fetzer E 2009. Validation of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) version 5 land surface emissivity product over the Namib and Kalahari deserts. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (1984-2012) 114 (D19) 16

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009JD012351/abstract

Newsham AJ, Thomas DSG 2011. Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia. Global Environmental Change 21 (2) 761-770

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378010001160

Senut B, Pickford M, Segalen L 2009. Neogene desertification of Africa. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 341 (8-9) 591-602

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071309000790

Fujioka T, Chappell J 2011. Desert landscape processes on a timescale of millions of years, probed by cosmogenic nuclides. Aeolian Research 3 (2) 157-164

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963711000140

Gaughan AE, Waylen PR 2012. Spatial and temporal precipitation variability in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi catchment, southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 82 19-30

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000717

Midgley GF, Thuiller W 2007. Potential vulnerability of Namaqualand plant diversity to anthropogenic climate change. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (4) 615-628

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Stringer LC, Dyer JC, Reed MS, Dougill AJ, Twyman C, Mkwambisi D 2009. Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: local insights to enhance policy in southern Africa. Environment: Science and Policy 12 (7) 748-765

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901109000604

Popp A, Domptail S, Blaum N, Jeltsch F 2009. Landuse experience does qualify for adaptation to climate change. Ecological Modelling 220 (5) 694-702

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380008005772

Stetten HR, Railsback LB, Liang F, Brook GA, Marais E, Hardt BF, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2013. A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600 years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 376 149-162

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018213001065

Hamandawana H, Chanda R, Eckardt E 2008. Reappraisal of contemporary perspectives on climate change in southern Africa's Okavango Delta sub-region. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (9) 1709-1720

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308000621

Lancaster N 2013. Dune Fields / Low Latitudes. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) 623-636

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444536433001539

Milzow C, Burg V, Kinzelbach W 2010. Estimating future ecoregion distributions within the Okavango Delta Wetlands based on hydrological simulations and future climate and development scenarios. Journal of Hydrology 381 (1-2) 89-100

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169409007483

Tsoar H 2013. Critical environments: sand dunes and climate change. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 414-427

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003146

Zedda L, Gröngröft A, Schultz M, Petersen A, Mills A, Rambold G 2011. Distribution patterns of soil lichens across the principal biomes of southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (2) 215-220

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2008. International Conference on water scarcity, global changes, and groundwater management responses.

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Geyh MA, Heine K 2014. Several distinct wet periods since 420 ka in the Namib Desert inferred from U-series dates of speleothems. Quaternary Research In Press

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Seely M, Dirkx E, Hager C, Klintenberg P, Roberts C, von Oertzen D 2008. Advances in desertification and climate change research: are they accessible for application to enhance adaptive capacity?. Global and Planetary Change 64 (3-4) 236-243

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818108001331

Kreft S, Eckstein D 2013. Global Climate Risk Index 2014 - Who Suffers Most from Extreme Weather Events? Weather-Related Loss Events in 2012 and 1993 to 2012.

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Website link:https://germanwatch.org/7659

Vogel JC 1989. Evidence of past climatic change in the Namib Desert. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 70 (4) 355-366

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018289901132

Willis SG, Hole DG, Collingham YC, Hilton G, Rahbek C, Huntley B 2009. Assessing the Impacts of Future Climate Change on Protected Area Networks: A Method to Simulate Individual Species' Responses. Environmental Management 43 (5) 836-845

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-008-9125-3

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Eller BM 1983. Responses of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) to Increasing and Decreasing Water Stress in Plants in the Southern Namib Desert. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology 3 155-163

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-6813-4_17

Treichel S, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Willert DJ 1984. Occurrence and changes of proline content in plants in the southern Namib Desert in relations to increasing and decreasing drought. Planta 162 (3) 236-242

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00397445

Heine K Little Ice Age climatic fluctuations in the Namib Desert, Namibia, and adjacent areas: Evidence of exceptionally large floods from slack water deposits and desert soil sequences. Paleoecology of Quaternary Drylands Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 102 (137-165) 2004

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-44930-0_9

Integrated Environmental Consultants Namibia (IECN) Regional Climate Change Information Toolkits for Namibia. Integrated Environmental Consultants Namibia (IECN)

Website link:http://www.iecn-namibia.com/community-toolkits-namibia.html

Hachfeld B, Jürgens N 2000. Climate patterns and their impact on the vegetation in a fog driven desert: the central Namib Desert in Namibia. Phytocoenologia 30 (3-4) 567-589

Website link:https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/phyto/detail/30/80801/Climate_patterns_and_their_impact_on_the_vegetation_in_a_fog_driven_desert_The_Central_Namib_Desert_in_Namibia

Alley RB, Marotzke J, Nordhaus WD, Overpeck JT, Peteet DM, Pielke RA, Pierrehumber RT, Rhines PB, Stocker TF, Talley LD, Wallace JM 2003. Abrupt Climate Change. Science 299 (5615) 2005-2010

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/299/5615/2005.abstract

Hulme M, Kelly M 1993. Exploring the links between Desertification and Climate Change. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 35 (6) 4-45

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Gingele FX 1996. Holocene climatic optimum in Southwest Africa—evidence from the marine clay mineral record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 122 (1-4) 77-87

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018296000764

World Resource Institute - WRI Insights.

Website link:http://insights.wri.org/search?s=Namibia

Totolo O, Chanda R 2003. Environmental change and sustainability issues in the Kalahari region. Journal of Arid Environments 54 (2) 257-259

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302910888

Adger WN, Arnell NW, Tompkins EL 2005. Adapting to climate change: perspectives across scales. Global Environmental Change Part A 15 (2) 75-76

Website link:http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/15799

Lancaster N 2002. How dry was dry?-Late Pleistocene palaeoclimates in the Namib Desert. Quaternary Science Reviews 21 (7) 769-782

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379101001263

Segalen L, Renard M, Lee-Thorp JA, Emmanuel L, le Callonnec L, de Rafélis M, Senut B, Pickford M, Melice J-L 2006. Neogene climate change and emergence of C4 grasses in the Namib, southwestern Africa, as reflected in ratite 13C and 18 O. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 244 (3-4) 725-734

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X05008708

Burke A 2007. Plant endemism in the central Namib Desert. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9 283-297

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Sims RH, Hastings A, Schlamadinger B, Taylor G, Smith P 2006. Energy crops: current status and future prospects. Global Change Biology 12 (11) 2054-2076

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Cammeraat LH, Imeson AC 1998. Deriving indicators of soil degradation from soil aggregation studies in southeastern Spain and southern France. Geomorphology 23 (2-4) 307-321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X98000129

Watkinson AR, Ormerod SJ 2001. Grasslands, grazing and biodiversity: editors' introduction. Journal of Applied Ecology 38 (2) 233-237

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00621.x/full

Glen E, Smith MS, Squires V 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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901198000070

Strandholm K, Kumar K, Subramanian R 2004. Examining the interrelationships among perceived environmental change, strategic response, managerial characteristics, and organizational performance. Journal of Business Research 57 (1) 58-68

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296302002850

Ogunseitan QA 2003. Framing environmental change in Africa: cross-scale institutional constraints on progressing from rhetoric to action against vulnerability. Global Environmental Change 13 (2) 101-111

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378003000049

Braby J, Kandjinga LJ 2011. Trade and Climate Change - How does it Affect Namibia? Nampower Convention Centre, Windhoek 27th September 2011.