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Changes that may take place in ecosystems, climate, soil, habitats, etc. due to pressures of various origin. (Source: RRDA)

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Barnard P, Thuiller W, Midgley G 2005. Invasive species under global change – signs from a homogenized world. GISP Newsletter 2005 8-11

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Midgley GF, Rutherford MC, Bond WJ, Barnard P 2001. The heat is on: impacts of climate change on plant diversity in South Africa.

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Impacts of climate change on plant diversity in South Africa.pdf	10.31 MB

Altwegg R, Broms K, Erni B, Barnard P, Midgley GF, Underhill LG 2011. Novel methods reveal shifts in migration phenology of barn swallows in South Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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Osinubi ST, Hand K, van Oijen DCC, Walther BA, Barnard P 2016. Linking science and policy to address conservation concerns about African land use, land conversion and land grabs in the era of globalization. African Journal of Ecology 54 265-267

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2009. Birds and environmental change: building an early warning system in South Africa.

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Birds and environmental change 2009.pdf	1.65 MB

Blümel WD, Eberle J, Hüser K, Eitel B 2009. Holozäner Klima- und Landschaftswandel in der Namib?. Nova Actas Leopoldina 108 (373) 125-149

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Arntzen J, Muchero M, Dube P 2004. Global environmental change and food provision in southern Africa: Explorations for a possible GECAFS research project in southern Africa.

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GECAFS Southern Africa Report.pdf	683.19 KB

Beekman HE, Saayman I, Hughes S 2003. Vulnerability of water resources to environmental change in southern Africa.

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Vulnerability of water resources to environmental change in southern Africa.pdf	2.96 MB

Nangombe LR 2015. High-resolution mapping of land use change and urban sprawl by means of remote sensing and GIS: A case study of Goreangab Township, Windhoek.

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L R Nangombe_Honours Mini_Thesis_2015-01-29.pdf	2.75 MB

Flint LS 2008. Socio-Ecological Vulnerability and Resilience in an Arena of Rapid Environmental Change: Community Adaptation to Climate Variability in the Upper Zambezi Floodplain.

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Vulnerability and resilience in the Barotse Floodplain Flint.pdf	2.5 MB

Vogel JC, Rust U 1987. Environmental changes in the Kaokoveld Namib Desert during the present millennium. Madoqua 15 (1) 5-16

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Environmental changes in the Kaokoland.pdf	2.02 MB

Nash DJ, Meadows ME, Gulliver VL 2006. Holocene environmental change in the Okavango Panhandle, northwest Botswana. Quaternary Science Reviews 25 (11-12) 1302-1322

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379105002982

Meadows ME 2001. The role of Quaternary environmental change in the evolution of landscapes: case studies from southern Africa. Catena 42 (1) 39-57

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816200001156

Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3099-3107

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709003760

Avery DM 1993. Last interglacial and holocene altithermal environments in South Africa and Namibia: micromammalian evidence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 103 (3-4) 221-228

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003101829390014A

Kasemann SA, Hawkesworth CJ, Prave AR, Fallick AE, Pearson PN 2005. Boron and calcium isotope composition in Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks from Namibia: evidence for extreme environmental change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 231 (1-2) 73-86

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X04007113

Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Fences and artificial water affect African savannah elephant movement patterns. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3086-3098

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709003759

Ngcobo S, Jewitt GPW, Stuart-Hill SI, Warburton ML 2013. Impacts of global change on southern African water resources systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5 (6) 655-666

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343513001322

Carr AS, Boom A, Chase BM 2010. The potential of plant biomarker evidence derived from rock hyrax middens as an indicator of palaeoenvironmental change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285 (3-4) 321-330

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018209005240

Brook GA, Marais E, Srivastava P, Jordan T 2007. Timing of lake-level changes in Etosha Pan, Namibia, since the middle Holocene from OSL ages of relict shorelines in the Okondeka region. Quaternary International 175 (1) 29-40

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618207001450

Zeidler J, Robertson M, Klintenberg P 1999. Measurement and monitoring of environmental change through indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem function.

Blümel WD, Eitel B, Lang A 1998. Dunes in southeastern Namibia: evidence for Holocene environmental changes in the southwestern Kalahari based on thermoluminescence data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 138 (1-4) 139-149

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018297001144

Jürgens N 2001. Aspects of botanical biodiversity in southern African arid regions - An outline of concepts and results. Biodiversity 53-70

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-06071-1_5

Skarpe C 1986. Plant community structure in relation to grazing and environmental changes along a north-south transect in the western Kalahari. Vegetatio 68 (1) 3-18

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00031575

Whitford WG, de Soyza AG, van Zee JW, Herrick JE, Havstad KM Vegetation, Soil, and Animal Indicators of Rangeland Health. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 51 (1-2) 179-200

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1005987219356

Higgins S, Bond WJ, Trollope WSW 2000. Fire, resprouting and variability: a recipe for grass-tree coexistence in savanna. Journal of Ecology 88 213-229

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2648525

Wilson AD, Tupper GJ 1982. Concepts and Factors Applicable to the Measurement of Range Condition. Journal of Range Management 35 (6) 684-689

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3898238

World Resource Institute - WRI Insights.

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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

Carr ER 2005. Placing the environment in migration: environment, economy, and power in Ghana's Central Region. Environment and Planning A37 (5) 925-946

Website link:http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=a3754

Rogan R, O'Connor M, Horwitz P 2005. Nowhere to hide: Awareness and perceptions of environmental change, and their influence on relationships with place. Journal of Environmental Psychology 25 (2) 147-158

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494405000241

Serneels S, Said MY, Lambin EF 2001. Land cover changes around a major east African wildlife reserve: the Mara Ecosystem ( Kenya). International Journal of Remote Sensing 22 (17) 3397-3420

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160152609236

Lockwood JA, Lockwood DR 1993. Catastrophe Theory: A unified paradigm for rangeland ecosystem dynamics. Journal of Range Management 46 (4) 282-288

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4002459

Lambin EF, Turner BL, Geist HJ, Agbola SB, Engelsen A, Bruce JW, Coomes OT, Dirzo R, Fischer G, Folke C, George PS, Homewood K, Imbernon J, Leemans R, Li X, Morgan EF, Mortimore M, Ramakrishnan PS, Richards JF, Skånes H, Steffen W, Stone GD, Svedin U 2001. The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths. Global Environmental Change 11 (4) 261-269

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378001000073

Dahlberg AC 2000. Landscape(s) in Transition: an Environmental History of a Village in North-east Botswana. Journal of Southern African Studies 26 (4) 760-782

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2637570

Mucher CA, Steinnocher KT, Kressler FP, Heunks C 2000. Land cover characteri zation and change detection for environmental monitoring of pan-Europe. International Journal for Remote Sensing 21 (6-7) 1159-1181

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311600210128

Richardson FD, Hahn BD, Hoffman BT 2005. On the dynamics of grazing systems in the semi-arid succulent Karoo: The relevance of equilibrium and non-equilibrium concepts to the sustainability of semi-arid pastoral systems. Ecological Modelling 187 (4) 491-512

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438000500102X

Thomas DSG, Sporton D, Perkins J 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

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1099-145X(200007/08)11:4%3C327::AID-LDR395%3E3.0.CO;2-V/abstract

Genxu W, Guodong C 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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196399905633

Krogh SN, Zeisset MS, Jackson E, Whitford WG 2002. Presence/absence of a keystone species as an indicator of rangeland health. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (3) 513-519

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196301909000

Lyon J, Gross NM 2005. Patterns of plant diversity and plant–environmental relationships across three riparian corridors. Forest Ecology and Management 204 (2-3) 267-278

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112704006954

Weber GE, Jeltsch F, van Rooyen N, Milton SJ 1998. Simulated long-term vegetation response to grazing heterogeneity in semi-arid rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology 35 (5) 687-699

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.1998.355341.x/abstract

Todd SW 2006. Gradients in vegetation cover, structure and species richness of Nama-Karoo shrublands in relation to distance from livestock watering points. Journal of Applied Ecology 43 (2) 293-304

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01154.x/abstract

Parr TW, Sier ARJ, Battarbee RW, Mackay A, Burgess J 2003. Detecting environmental change: science and society—perspectives on long-term research and monitoring in the 21st century. The Science of the Total Environment 310 (1-3) 1-8

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969703002572

Kepe T, Scoones I 1999. Creating Grasslands: Social Institutions and Environmental Change in Mkambati Area, South Africa. Human Ecology 27 (1) 29-53

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4603307

Dahlberg AC 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

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1099-145X(200011/12)11:6%3C549::AID-LDR413%3E3.0.CO;2-5/abstract

Diouf A, Lambin EF 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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300907444

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

Tegler B, Sharp M, Johnson MA 2001. Ecological monitoring and assessment networks proposed core monitoring variables: an early warning of environmental change. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 67 (1-2) 29-56

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1006479516184?LI=true

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