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Remedial and preventive actions adopted against desertification include irrigation, planting of trees and grasses, the erection of fences to secure sand dunes, and a careful management of water resources. (Source: WRIGHT)

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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 2013. Convention to Combat Desertification.

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) 2010. National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia, September 2010.

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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

Seely M, Klintenberg P 2007. Can information circulation contribute to combating desertification?. AIDCCD – Active exchange of experience on indicators and development of perspectives in the context of UNCCD: Role of information circulation systems in scientific and practical approaches to combat desertification. Proceedings of the International Seminar 14-23

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Seely MK, Klintenberg P, Kruger AS 2006. Integrated approach for use of desertification benchmarks and indicators: an example from Namibia. AIDCCD – Active exchange of experience on indicators and development of perspectives in the context of UNCCD, Local and regional desertification indicators in a global perspective: seminar proceedings 65-73

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256103941_Integrated_approach_for_use_of_desertification_benchmarks_and_indicators_an_example_from_Namibia

Klintenberg P, Seely M 2005. State of the art on existing indicators and their use for desertification monitoring and CCD implementation in southern Africa. AIDCCD active exchange of experience on indicators and development of perspectives in the context of UNCCD: Report on the state of art on existing indicators and CCD implementation in the UNCCD Annexes 95-139

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

Schlesinger WH, Reynolds JF, Cunningham GL, Huenneke LF, Jarrell WM, Virginia RA, Whitford WG 1990. Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification. Science 247 (4946) 1043-1048

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/247/4946/1043.short

Thomas DSG 1997. Science and the deserti?cation debate. Journal of Arid environments 37 (4) 599-608

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397902937

Cowling RM, Dlamini TS, Stock WD 1999. Plant Induced Fertile Islands as Possible Indicators of Desertification in a Succulent Desert Ecosystem in Northern Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1/2 The Plant Ecology of Namaqualand, South Africa (Jun., 1999)) 161-167

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20050782

Verón SR, Paruelo JM, Oesterheld M 2006. Assessing desertification. Journal of Arid Environments 66 (4) 751-763

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306000486

Rasmussen K, Fog B, Madsen JE 2001. Desertification in reverse? Observations from northern Burkina Faso. Global Environmental Change 11 (4) 271-282

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937800100005X

Geist HJ, Lambin EF 2004. Dynamic Causal Patterns of Desertification. BioScience 59 (9) 817-829

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054%5B0817:DCPOD%5D2.0.CO%3B2

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

1997. Sub-regional action programme to combat desertification in southern Africa.

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van Rooyen AF 1998. Combating desertification in the southern Kalahari: Connecting science with community action in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 285 - 297

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398904074

Seely M, Moser P 2004. Connecting Community Action and Science to Combat Desertification: Evaluation of a Process. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 99 (1 - 3) 33 - 55

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/h162671772634n07/

Gobabeb Training and Research Centre.

Website link:http://www.gobabebtrc.org/

Akhtar-Schuster M, Amiraslani F, Diaz Morejon CF, Escadafal F, Fulajtar E, Grainger A, Kellner K, Khan SI, Perez Prado O, Sauchanka U, Stringer LC, Reda F, Thomas RJ 2016. Designing a new science-policy communication mechanism for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Environmental Science and Policy 63 122-131

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901116300600

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

Sullivan S 2000. Getting the science right, or introducing science in the first place? Local 'facts', global discourse - 'desertification' in north-western Namibia. Political Ecology: Science, myth and power 15-44

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Local facts_global discourse_Sullivan 2000.pdf	1.5 MB

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

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Desertification in Namibia_1996.pdf	6.03 MB

2014. Concise Strategy and Action Plan for Namibia's Presidency of the 11th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

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11th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification 2014.pdf	738.76 KB

Bethune S, Pallett J 2002. Namibia's second national report on the implementation of the UN convention to combat desertification.

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Namibias second national report on the implementation of the UN convention to combat desertification.pdf	116.13 KB

Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) 2004. Namibia's third national report on the implementation of the UN convention to combat desertification.

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Namibias third national report on the implementation of the UN convention to combat desertification.pdf	1.03 MB

Böhm N Desertifikation - Zu den Schwierigkeiten der Implementation der UN-Konvention: Fallstudie Namibia .

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Desertifikation Zu den Schwierigkeiten der Implementation der UN-Konvention_Fallstudie Namibia.pdf	442.28 KB

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

Seely M, Klintenberg P, Shikongo S 2007. Evolutionary process of mainstreaming desertification policy: a Namibian case study. Desertification and the international policy imperative. Proceedings of a Joint International Conference 107-115

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Evolutionary process of mainstreaming desertification policy.pdf	3.77 MB

DHV Consultants BV 1996. Combatting desertification through sustainable rehabilitation of bush encroached farmland.

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Combatting_Desertification__Through_Sustainable_Rehabilitation_of_Bush_Encroached_Farmland_1996.pdf	3.15 MB

Jensen S, //Gaseb A, /Nawaseb G 2002. An Overview of Desertification Issues in the #Khoadi //Hoas Conservancy. Namibia's Programme to Combat Desertification (NAPCOD).

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An Overview of Desertification Issues in the Khoadi Hoas Conservancy_2002.pdf	283.04 KB

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005. Facts on Desertification-A Summary of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Desertification Synthesis.

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Facts on Desertification_2005.pdf	739.88 KB

Jobst P, Kakukuru E, Kambutuku JR, Mouton D, Netha L, Nghitila TM, Shanyengana ES, Siyambango MS 1994. SDP 3: An investigation into the biophysical aspects and socio-economics of desertification in north western Namibia. (Climate variability, desertification and loss of biodiversity).

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Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) 2007. SDP 2: An Investigation into the Biophysical Aspects and Socio-economics of Desertification in North-western Namibia.

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DRFN_Biophysical Aspects and Socio-economics of Desertification 2007.pdf	21.82 KB