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The result of the cumulative activities of farmers, households, and industries, all trying to improve their socio-economic well being. These activities tend to be counterproductive for several reasons. People may not completely understand the long-term consequences of their activities on the natural resource base. The most important ways in which human activity is interfering with the global ecosystem are: a) fossil fuel burning which may double the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by the middle of the next century, as well as further increasing the emissions of sulphur and nitrogen very significantly; b) expanding agriculture and forestry and the associated use of fertilizers (nitrogen and phosphorous) are significantly altering the natural circulation of these nutrients; c) increased exploitation of the freshwater system both for irrigation in agriculture and industry and for waste disposal. (Source: WPR)

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Archer ERM 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

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Klintenberg P, Seely M 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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Zimmermann I, Graz FP, Berry MH, Imasiku NNT, Muroua ND, Sibalatani MM, Sikopo CS 2001. Quantified range condition assessment of open Camelthorn savanna along a degradation gradient. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 18 (2 - 3) 111 - 116

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Ward D, Ngairorue BT, Apollus A, Tjiveze H 2000. Perceptions and realities of land degradation in arid Otjimbingwe, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 337 - 356

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Ward D, Ngairorue BT, Kathena J, Samuels R, Ofran Y 1998. Land degradation is not a necessary outcome of communal pastoralism in arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 40 (4) 357 - 371

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Sullivan S 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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Smit GN 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

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Dougill A, Cox J 1995. Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.

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Wessels KJ, Prince SD, Frost PE, van Zyl D 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

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Ludwig A, Meyer H, Nauss T 2016. Automatic classification of Google Earth images for a larger scale monitoring of bush encroachment in South Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 50 89-94

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Hamandawana H, Chanda R, Eckardt F 2007. The role of human factors in the degradation of natural resources in and around the Okavango Delta, Botswana. International Journal of Environmental Studies (Special Issue: Africa) 64 (5) 587-603

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Ndhlovu T, Milton-Dean SJ, Esler KJ 2011. Impact of Prosopis (mesquite) invasion and clearing on the grazing capacity of semiarid Nama Karoo rangeland, South Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 28 (3) 129-137

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Impact of Prosopis invasion and clearing on the grazing capacity of semiarid Nama Karoo rangeland.pdf	1.26 MB

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Bester B 1996. Bush encroachment: a thorny problem.. Namibia Environment 1 175-177

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Kambataku JR 1996. Historical Profiles of Farms in Former Damaraland.

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Historical_Profile_of_Farms_in_Former_Damaraland_by_Jack_Ratjindula_Kambatuku_1996_Occasional_Paper_No.4.pdf	4.26 MB

Uaria-Kakujaha K, Kambatuku J 1995. Making a way through thick bush: The charcoal alternatives. Seeds: News, Opinion and insight about desertification in Namibia 1 1-7

1994. Proceedings of Namibia's national workshop to combat desertification.

Pröpper M, Gröngröft A, Falk T, Eschenbach A, Fox T, Gessner U, Hecht J, Hinz MO, Huettich C 2010. Causes and perspectives of land-cover change through expanding cultivation in Kavango. 3 1-31

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Sullivan S 2002. 'How can the rain fall in this chaos?': Myth and metaphor in representations of the north-west Namibian landscape. Challenges for anthropology in the African "renaissance" - A southern African contribution 255-317

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Sullivan 2002 How can the rain fall in all this chaos.pdf	10.2 MB

Kojwang H, Erkkilä A 1996. Directorate of Forestry challenges environmental degradation. Namibia Environment 1 106-109

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Directorate of Forestry challenges environmental degradation.pdf	4.08 MB

Seely MK, Jacobson KM 1996. Desertification in Namibia. Namibia Environment 1 170-173

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Reed MS, Stringer LC, Dougill AJ, Perkins JS, Atlhopheng JR, Mulale K, Favretto N 2015. Reorienting land degradation towards sustainable land management: Linking sustainable livelihoods with ecosystem services in rangeland systems. Journal of Environmental Management (151) 472-485

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Grunewald T 2017. Rangeland management practices of commercial cattle farmers in the highland savanna of Namibia.

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Masters Dissertation_Rangeland management in Highland Savanna.pdf	1.9 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) 2018. National policy on prospecting and mining in protected areas.

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National policy on prospecting and mining in Protected Areas_2018.pdf	2.41 MB

Mathieu R, Wessels K, Main R, Naidoo L, van der Bergh F, Erasmus B 2018. A radar and LiDAR-based earth observation system for monitoring savanna woody structure in southern Africa. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (6) 355-359

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A radar_ and LiDAR_based earth observation system for monitoring savanna woody structure in southern Africa.pdf	2.77 MB

2018. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions.

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Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa.pdf	9.48 MB

Groengroeft A, de Blécourt M, Classen N, Landschreiber L, Eschenbach A 2018. Acacia trees modify soil water dynamics and the potential groundwater recharge in savanna ecosystems. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (6) 177-186

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Acacia trees modify soil water dynamics and the potential groundwater recharge in savanna ecosystems.pdf	1.62 MB

Baptista N, António T, Branch WR 2018. Amphibians and reptiles of the Tundavala region of the Angolan Escarpment. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (6) 397-403

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Posada R, Riede J 2018. Analysis of Climate Data Application (ACD-App). Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solution 30

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Mbata KJ 2018. Annotated checklist of cockroaches and termites of Zambia (Arthropoda: Insecta; Blattodea). Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 404-415

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Posada R, Riede J 2018. Application to import climate data into CLIMSOFT (import-App). Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 32

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Olivier G, Helmschrot J, de Clercq WP 2018. Are large classical gully systems inactive remnants of the past? A field-based case study investigating sediment movement. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 146-154

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de Cauwer V, Chaka M, Chimwamurombe PM, George D, Ham H, Heita H, Makoi T, Mashungwa G, Reinhold-Hurek B, Tshwenyane S 2018. Artificial and assisted natural regeneration of socio-economically important southern African tree species. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 324-331

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Jürgens N, Strohbach B, Lages F, Schmiedel U, Finckh M, Sichone P, Hahn L-M, Zigelski P 2018. Biodiversity observation – an overview of the current state and first results of biodiversity monitoring studies. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 382-396

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Muche G, Schmiedel U, Finckh M, Jürgens N 2018. BIOTABase - a unique software to handle complex biodiversity observation data and environmental data. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions

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BIOTABase_a unique software to handle complex biodiversity observation data and environmental data.pdf	963.54 KB

Tweddle D, Peel RA, Taylor GC, Murphy C, Weyl OLF 2018. Climate, fish, and people in Zambezian fisheries, with emphasis on a natural flood cycle in the ephemeral Lake Liambezi. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 466-479

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Louw F, Mwewa L, Maphanyane J, Sakala E, Motola S 2018. Collaborative postgraduate programme in applied science in earth observation, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 368-369

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Collaborative Postgraduate Programme in Applied Science in Earth Observation_Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing.pdf	1.44 MB