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The removal of forest and undergrowth to increase the surface of arable land or to use the timber for construction or industrial purposes. Forest and its undergrowth possess a very high water-retaining capacity, inhibiting runoff of rainwater. (Source: GILP)

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Krug J 2004. Site-species matching and planting technique for arid-zone forestry in Namibia.

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Site_species matching and planting technique for arid_Zone forestry in Namibia.pdf	257.58 KB

Kojwang HO 2005. Forest Outlook studies in Africa (FOSA) - Namibia.

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Forest Outlook studies in Africa.pdf	196.04 KB

IPCC report on definitions and methodological options to inventory emissions from direct human-induced degradation of forests and devegetation of other vegetation types.

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IPPC Report.pdf	391.35 KB

Kreike E The Ovambo Paradox: Challenging Paradigms of Environmental Change in Africa.

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Emmanuel Krieke The Owambo paradox.pdf	172.55 KB

Bodart C, Brink AB, Donnay F, Lupi A, Mayaux P, Achard F 2013. Continental estimates of forest cover and forest cover changes in the dry ecosystems of Africa between 1990 and 2000. Journal of Biogeography 40 (6) 1036-1047

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Continental estimates of forest cover and forest cover changes in the dry ecosystems of Africa_2013.pdf	1.33 MB

Margoluis R, Russell V, González M, Rojas O, Magdaleno J, Madrid G, Kaimowitz D 2001. Maximum yield? Sustainable agriculture as a tool for conservation.

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Maximum_Yield_ sustainable agriculture as a tool for conservation_ R Margoluis.pdf	838.53 KB

Falk T, Gröngröft A, Eschenbach A, Fox T, Hinz M, Kangombe F, Keil M, Namwoonde E, Petersen A, Pröpper M, Strohbach B, Wisch U 2008. Deforestation and biodiversity-loss due to cultivation? An interdisciplinary analysis in North-East Namibia.

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Deforestation and biodiversity loss due to cultivation_2008.pdf	3.7 MB

Hamandawana H, Chanda R 2010. Natural and human dimensions of environmental change in the proximal reaches of Botswana's Okavango Delta.. The Geographical Journal 176 (1) 58-76

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2009.00339.x/abstract

Bruijnzeel LA 2004. Hydrological functions of tropical forests: not seeing the soil for the trees?. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 104 (1) 185-228

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880904000404

Corbera E, Estrada M, Brown K 2010. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries: revisiting the assumptions. Climatic Change 100 (3-4) 355-388

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-009-9773-1?LI=true

Pelser AJ, Kherehloa T 2000. Some causes and strategies pertaining to land degradation in southern Africa. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension 29 24-46

Website link:http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajae/article/view/3627/

Dubroeucq D, Livenais P 2004. Land cover and land use changes in relation to social evolution—a case study from Northern Chile. Journal of Arid Environments 56 (2) 193-211

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303000429

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

Watts S 2003. The effects of communal land resource management on forest conservation in northern and north-eastern Namibia. Development Southern Africa 20 (3) 337 - 359

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0376835032000108167

Marsh A 1996. The most important functions of the forestry sector in the Namibian economy: A contribution towards the development of a forestry sector strategic plan for Namibia.

de Blécourt M, Röder A, Groengroeft A, Baumann S, Frantz D, Eschenbach A 2018. Deforestation for agricultural expansion in SW Zambia and NE Namibia and the impacts on soil fertility, soil organic carbon- and nutrient levels. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 242-250

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Deforestation for agricultural expansion in SW Zambia and NE Namibia and the impacts on soil fertility_soil organic carbon- and nutrient levels.pdf	1.95 MB

Parduhn D, Frantz D 2018. Seeing deforestation in Zambia - On the discrepancy between biophysical land-use changes and social perception. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 317-323

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Seeing deforestation in Zambia_On the discrepancy between biophysical land_use changes and social perception.pdf	1.79 MB

Schneibel A, Stellmes M, Revermann R, Finckh M Agricultural expansion during the post-civil war period in southern Angola based on bi-temporal Landsat data. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region 311-319

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Agricultural expansion during the post_civil war period in southern Angola based on bi_temporal Landsat data.pdf	4.89 MB

Hansen MC, Potapov PV, Moore R, Hancher M, Turubanova SA, Tyukavina A, Thau D, Stehman SV, Goetz SJ, Loveland TR, Kommareddy A, Egorov A, Chini L, Justice CO, Townshend JRG 2013. High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change. Science (342) 850-853

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High_Resolution Global Maps of 21st_Century Forest Cover Change.pdf	4.41 MB

Cornelio FSM Energy-Poverty and its Impacts on Peri-urban Zones of Huambo City, Angola.

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Charcoal in and around Huambo Thesis Filomena Cornelio.pdf	2.13 MB

Goncalves FMP Impact of emerging charcoal production in the Miombo Woodland of Chitembo - Bié Province, Angola.

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Charcoal assessment Chitembo Fancisco Maiata.docx	2.82 MB

Lacerda Quartin V Impacto da desflorestação ao nível edafo-climático e social no planalto central.

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Deforestation Planalto Centra Angola Virgínia Quartin.doc	165.5 KB

Palacios G, Lara-Gomez M, Márquez A, Vaca JL, Ariza D, Lacerda V, Navarro-Cerrillo RM 2015. Spatial Dynamic and Quantification of Deforestation and Degradation in Miombo Forest of Huambo Province (Angola) during the period 2002-2015.

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Monitoring deforestation in Huambo SASSCAL Task 137 Final Report.pdf	235.59 KB

Website link:http://data.sasscal.org/dev/metadata/view.php?view=doc_documents&id=2966

Palacios G, Lara-Gomez M, Márquez A, Vaca JL, Ariza D, Lacerda V, Navarro-Cerrillo RM 2015. Sasscal Project Task 137: Deforestation monitoring in Huambo province from 2002 - 2012 using detection technologies and geographic information systems (GIS).

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Report_I_Task_137.pdf	24.94 MB

Mendelsohn JM 2019. Chapter 8: Landscape Changes in Angola. Biodiversity of Angola - Science and Conservation: A Modern Synthesis 123-137

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Landscape Changes in Angola.pdf	2.79 MB

de Blécourt M, Gröngröft A, Baumann S, Eschenbach A 2019. Losses in soil organic carbon stocks and soil fertility due to deforestation for low-input agriculture in semi-arid southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments (165) 88-96

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.02.006

Gaavwase Gbagir A-M, Tegegne YT, Colpaert A 2019. Historical trajectory in vegetation cover in northeastern Namibia based on AVHRR Satellite Imagery (1982–2015). Land (8)

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Historical trajectory in vegetation cover in northeastern Namibia based on AVHRR Satellite Imagery.pdf	1.8 MB

Siiskonen H 1996. Deforestation in the Owambo Region, north Namibia, since the 1850s. Environment and History 2 (3) 291-308

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Deforestation in the Owambo Region_north Namibia_ since the 1850s.pdf	189.97 KB

Seely M, Klintenberg P 2011. Case Study Desertification: Central-Northern Namibia. Silviculture in the Tropics 491-499

Website link:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-19986-8_31

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) Third National Action Programme for Namibia to implement the United Nations Convention to combat desertification 2014 - 2024.

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Third National Action Programme for Namibia to implement the United Nations Convention to combat desertification 2014_2024.pdf	1.07 MB

Brown CJ 1994. Namibia's National Policy to combat desertification.

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Namibia_National_Policy_To_Combat_Desertification_MET_July_1994.pdf	204.03 KB

Wingate VR, Phinn SR, Kuhn N, Bloemertz L, Dhanjal-Adams KL 2016. Mapping decadal land cover changes in the woodlands of North Eastern Namibia from 1975 to 2014 using the Landsat Satellite archived data. Remote Sensing 8 (8) 681

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Mapping decadal land cover changes in the woodlands of north eastern Namibia from 1975 to 2014.pdf	1.06 MB

Mendelsohn JM Landscape changes in Angola. Biodiversity of Angola 123-127

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Landscape changes in Angola.pdf	1.58 MB

Mendelsohn JM, Gomes AL 2023. The human environment in the highlands and escarpments of Angola and Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment 8 43-51

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The human environment in the highlands and escarpments of Angola and Namibia.pdf	2.11 MB

2024. Namibia: Deforestation and poaching threaten endangered species.

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NAM_2024_03_Namibia_Deforestation and Poaching Threaten Endangered Species_Namibia Economist.pdf	1.97 MB

2024. Namibia warns of wildlife crisis due to deforestation, poaching.

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NAM_2024_03_Namibia warns of wildlife crisis due to deforestation_poaching_China.org_.cn_.pdf	690.09 KB

2011. Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development (GKED) Project. Programmatic Description of GMA Sub-Activity.

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Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development_2011.pdf	210.41 KB

Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development (GKED) Project. Programmatic Description of GMA Sub-Activity. Annex A. Model of typical wildlife viewing lodge JV GKED 2011.

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Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development_2011_Addendum 2.pdf	152.37 KB

2011. Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development (GKED) Project. Programmatic Description of GMA Sub-Activity. Annex K. Settlement Distribution and Zoning Maps.

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Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development_2011_Annex K.pdf	2.3 MB

2011. Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development (GKED) Project. Programmatic Description of GMA Sub-Activity. Annex A: Field Research Shedule.

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Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development_2011_Annex A_H.pdf	1.12 MB

2011. Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development (GKED) Project. Programmatic Description of GMA Sub-Activity. Annex I. Resource and Wildlife Distribution Sketch Maps.

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Community Partnerships in Tourism for the Greater Kafue Economic Development_2011_Annex I_J.pdf	2.32 MB

Ministry of Agriculture Water and Forestry (MAWF) 2011. A Forest Research Strategy for Namibia (2011–2015).

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MAWF_Forest Research Strategy 2011_2015.pdf	1.18 MB

Adger WN, Benjaminsen TA, Brown K, Svarstad H 2001. Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses. Development and Change 32 681-715

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Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses_2001.pdf	229.59 KB

2001. Promulgation of Forest Act, 2001 (Act No. 12 of 2001).

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Forestry Act.pdf	1.67 MB

Strohbach BJ 2000. Vegetation degradation trends in the northern Oshikoto Region: IV. The Broad-leafed savannas with associated pans. Dinteria 26 93 - 112

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Strohbach BJ 2000. Vegetation degradation trends in the northern Oshikoto Region: III. The Terminalia prunioides woodlands and Andoni grasslands. Dinteria 26 77 - 92

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Strohbach BJ 2000. Vegetation degradation trends in the northern Oshikoto Region: II. The Colophospermum mopane shrublands. Dinteria 26 63 - 75

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Strohbach BJ 2000. Vegetation degradation trends in the northern Oshikoto Region: I. The Hyphaene petersiana plains. Dinteria 26 45 - 62

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Jones BTB, Barnes JI 2009. Preparing for REDD in dryland forests: Investigating the options and potential synergy for REDD payments in the miombo eco-region (Namibia country study).

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jwwREPREDD Preparing for REDD _Namibia Country Study_ FINAL Draft 2.pdf	973.77 KB

MDG 7 - Progress Towards Environmental Sustainability.

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MDG7 Namibia.pdf	445.41 KB