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Degradation or destruction of large natural environments. When one ecosystem is under attack as a result of natural or man-made disaster it is extremely difficult to calculate the ripple effects throughout nature. When two or more ecosystems are being degraded the probabilities of synergistic destructiveness multiply. Ecosystems in many regions are threatened, despite their biological richness and their promise of material benefits. (Source: WPR)
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2000. The environmental impact of livestock ranches in the Kalahari, Botswana: natural resource use, ecological change and human response in a dynamic dryland system. Land Degradation and Development 11 (4) 327-341
2005. Perceiving Land-Degrading Activities from the Lay Perspective in Northern China. Environmental Management 36 (5) 711-725
1999. Water resource development and its influence on the environment in arid areas of China - the case of the Hei River basin. Journal of Arid Environments 43 (2) 121-131
1998. Deriving indicators of soil degradation from soil aggregation studies in southeastern Spain and southern France. Geomorphology 23 (2-4) 307-321
2000. Interpretations of environmental change and diversity: a critical approach to indications of degradation — the case of Kalakamate, Northeast Botswana. Land Degradation and Development
11 (6) 438-451
2001. Monitoring land-cover changes in semi-arid regions: remote sensing data and field observations in the Ferlo, Senegal. Journal of Arid Environments
48 (2) 129-148
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
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
2007. Using farmers criteria to assess profitability of fodder shrubs in the desert margins of west Africa. Land Degradation and Development
18 (6) 670-679
2006. The International Boreal Forest Research Association: Understanding Boreal Forests and Forestry in a Changing World. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 11 (1) 5 - 32
2008. A Review of Land Degraradatation Assessment Methods.
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| A Review of Land Degraradatation Assessment Methods.pdf | 711.3 KB |
1997. Sub-regional action programme to combat desertification in southern Africa.
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| Sub_regional action programme to combat desertification in southern Africa.pdf | 99.14 KB |
1998. Combating desertification in the southern Kalahari: Connecting science with community action in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 285 - 297
2001. Quantified range condition assessment of open Camelthorn savanna along a degradation gradient. African Journal of Range & Forage Science
18 (2 - 3) 111 - 116
2000. Perceptions and realities of land degradation in arid Otjimbingwe, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 337 - 356
1998. Land degradation is not a necessary outcome of communal pastoralism in arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments
40 (4) 357 - 371
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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| The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood_and shrub_lands in arid north_west Namibia.pdf | 264.41 KB |
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
1998. Himba Paradise Lost: Stability, degradation, and pastoralist management of the Omuhonga Basin (Namibia). Die Erde
129 301 - 315
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| Himba Paradise Lost.pdf | 2.56 MB |
2005. Biomass changes in north-western Namibia: First results from a remote sensing modelling approach. EARSeL eProceedings
4 (2) 157 - 170
2004. Effects of artificial water points on the Oshana ecosystem in Namibia. Environmental Conservation
31 (01) 47 - 54
Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/44520731
2007. Local and national perceptions of environmental change in central Northern Namibia: Do they correspond?. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (3) 506 - 525
2007. Shrub encroachment affects mammalian carnivore abundance and species richness in semiarid rangelands. Acta Oecologica
31 (1) 86 - 92
2008. Elephant management: A scientific assessment of South Africa.
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| Scholes_2009.pdf | 12.3 MB |
Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2983
2008. Making the most of South Africa's natural capital. Science 2008 12
Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2538
2006. Biodiversity. Africa environment outlook 2: Our environment, our wealth. 226 - 261
Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1179
2011. Improving the enabling environment to combat land degradation: Institutional, financial, legal and science-policy challenges and solutions. Land Degradation and Development 22 (2) 299-312
2014. Combating land degradation in Namibia over 23 years: learning what matters in DLDD. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 171-174
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.949902
2010. Space use of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) under different degradation states. African Journal of Ecology
48 (1) 96-104
2016. Designing a new science-policy communication mechanism for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Environmental Science and Policy 63 122-131
2003. The role of inselbergs in a changing world - global trends. Diversity and Distributions 9 375-383
2008. Limits of acceptable change for tourism in the Okavango Delta. Botswana Notes and Records 39 (Tourism as a Sustainable Development Factor) 98-112
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/41236637
1998. Aspects of ecological change in the Botswana Kalahari. Botswana Notes and Records
30 121-138
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980209
1992. Procedural considerations and results of Landsat Multi-Temporal Analyses concerned with range degradation (1972-1987) in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 24 205-215
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979924
1985. The distribution of "Acridoidea" (grass-hoppers) in relation to overgrazing. Botswana Notes and Records 17 141-148
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979744
1983. Further deterioration of the swamp ecosystem in the Boro-Thamalakane Region, Okavango Delta, Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 15 105-106
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979688
1982. A preliminary study of the distribution of Acridoidea in relation to overgrazing in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records
14 1-10
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979660
1971. The impact of man on the environment of Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 3 91-110
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979281
2014. Bush encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes. African Journal of Range and Forage Science (Special Issue: Bush encroachment - changes, causes, consequences and cures)
31 (2) 67-88
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
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 |
1998. Vegetation of the south-western arid Kalahari: An overview. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
53 (2) 113-140
1996. Bush encroachment: a thorny problem.. Namibia Environment 1 175-177
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| Bush encroachment_a thorny problem_1996.pdf | 4.39 MB |
1995. Making a way through thick bush: The charcoal alternatives. Seeds: News, Opinion and insight about desertification in Namibia
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