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The term land use deals with the spatial aspects of all human activities on the land and with the way in which the land surface is adapted, or could be adapted, to serve human needs. (Source: GOOD)

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Araki S 2005. Change in population and land-use intensities in several villages of the four northern regions of Namibia. African Study Monographs 30 77 - 88

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Change in population and land-use intensities in several villages of the four northern regions of Namibia.pdf	467.16 KB

Akhtar-Schuster M, Bock B, Falk T, Kirk M, Schmiedel U, Wolkenhauer C 2003. Environmental Impact and Socio-economic Incentives of Contrasting Land Management Systems in Southern Namibia.

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Environmental Impact and Socio_economic Incentives of Contrasting Land Management Systems in Southern Namibia.pdf	973.24 KB

Assessment of transboundary freshwater vulnerability in Africa to climate change.

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American Bird Conservancy.

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

Sorley CS, Anderson DE 1994. Raptor abundance in south-central Kenya in relation to land-use patterns. African Journal of Ecology 32 (1) 30-38

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1994.tb00552.x/full

Proposal: Inclusion of Harpagophytum procumbens in Appendix II in accordance with Article II 2(a). Inclusion of Harpagophytum zeyheri in Appendix II in accordance with Article II 2(b) for reasons of look-alike problems.

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Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) Land, Environment and Development (LEAD) Project.

Website link:http://www.lac.org.na/projects/lead/leadobjective.html

O'Farrell PJ, de Lange WJ, le Maitre D, Reyers B, Blignaut JN, Milton SJ, Atkinson D, Egoh B, Maherry A, Colvin C, Cowling RM 2011. Possibilities and pitfalls presented by a pragmatic approach to ecosystem service valuation in an arid biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (6) 612 - 623

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4893

Hillyer AEM, McDonagh JF, Verlinden A 2006. Land-use and legumes in northern Namibia - The value of a local classification system. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 117 (4) 251 - 265

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01678809

Popp A, Vogel M, Blaum N, Jeltsch F 2009. Scaling up ecohydrological processes: Role of surface water flow in water-limited landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research 114 10 pages

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3835

Jeltsch F, Blaum N, Classen N, Eschenbach A, Grohmann C, Gröngröft A, Joubert DF, Horn A, Lohmann D, Linsenmair KE, Lück-Vogel M, Medinski TV, Meyfarth S, Mills A, Petersen A, Popp A, Poschlod P, Reisch C, Rossmanith E, Rubilar H, Wesuls D, Wichmann M, Wieczorek M, Zimmermann I 2010. Impacts of landuse and climate change on the dynamics and biodiversity in the Thornbush Savanna Biome. Biodiversity in southern Africa 3 33-74

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The Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia (NNDFN).

Website link:http://www.kalaharipeoples.net/article.php?i=60&c=7

Bibby CJ, Collar NJ, Crosby MJ, Heath MF, Imboden C, Johnson TH, Long AJ, Stattersfield AJ, Thirgood SJ Namibia Community Based Tourism Association (NACOBTA).

Website link:http://www.nacobta.com.na/

Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN).

Website link:http://www.drfn.org.na/

Geological Survey of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.mme.gov.na/gsn/

van Straaten OJ 1963. Appendix: A note on the ground water potential of certain areas adjacent to the main internal drainage system of the northern Bechuanaland Protectorate. Land Use Prospects of Northern Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Jones BTB, Brown CJ 1991. Land reform: the environmental aspect.

Velempini K, Perkins JS 2008. Integrating indigenous technical knowledge and modern scientific knowledge for biodiversity conservation and human livelihoods in the southern Kalahari, Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 39 (Tourism as a Sustainable Development Factor) 75-88

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/41236635

Kinlund P 1996. Does Land Degradation Matter? Perspectives on Environmental Change in North East Botswana. 7

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19996777972.html;jsessionid=5012A2A57E55859E4BBF68A5506246D7

Vanderpost C, Ringrose S, Matheson W 1998. Aspects of ecological change in the Botswana Kalahari. Botswana Notes and Records 30 121-138

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980209

Dangerfield JM, Veendendaal EM, Riddoch BJ, Black H 1992. Termites and land use in south-east Botswana: Variety and abundance of termite surface features. Botswana Notes and Records 24 165-179

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979922

von Richter W 1970. Wildlife and rural economy in S.W. Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 2 85-94

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980769

1999. Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa.

Website link:http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/abs/10.1596/1813-9450-2040

Deininger K, Feder G 2001. Land institutions and land markets. Handbook of Agricultural Economics 1 (Part A) 287-331

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574007201100095

Wily LA 2008. Custom and commonage in Africa rethinking the orthodoxies. Land Use Policy 25 43-52

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837707000191

Widlok T 1994. Problems of land rights and land use in Namibia: a case study from the Mangetti area.

Website link:http://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/b1229724

Gamo M, Shinoda M, Maeda T 2013. Classification of arid lands, including soil degradation and irrigated areas, based on vegetation and aridity indices. International Journal of Remote Sensing 34 (19) 6701-6722

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2013.805281#.VHWEu2ctBHg

Binnie SA, Walcott RC, Dunai TJ, Summerfield MA 2008. New approaches to analysing landscape development: Some contributions from Edinburgh. Scottish Geographical Journal (Special Issue: Geography's Hundred: A Special Issue to Mark the Centenary of Geography at the University of Edinburgh, 1908–2008) 124 (2-3) 140-153

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702540802443645#.VG3AhFItBHg

Hanks J 2003. Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) in Southern Africa - Their Role in Conserving Biodiversity, Socioeconomic Development and Promoting a Culture of Peace. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 17 (1-2) 127-148

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J091v17n01_08#.VGW7RVItBHg

Musil CF, Macdonald IAW Guidelines for Sustainable Rangeland Management: Recommendations on Ecological Restoration of Rangelands - for Managers in the Semi-arid Nama Karoo Biome.

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2002. 5.33 Areas allocated and proposed for conservation.

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Acosta MKT 2015. Transboundary and inter-scale land use management: A qualitative analysis of potential conflicts among Stakeholders in the Okavango River Basin, southern Africa.

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Colpaert A 2013. Rural Land Use Change in East Caprivi, Namibia (1970-2006). Rural Geography in Africa, Asia, and Middle and South America 1

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2002. 5.28 Densities of sheep - karakul - grid.

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2002. 5.28 Densities of sheep - karakul.

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2002. 5.28 Densities of sheep - dorper - grid.

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Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia 2012. Government Notice, No. 142: Promulgation of Flexible Land Tenure Act, 2012 (Act No. 4 of 2012), of the Parliament. 1-19

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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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2002. 5.28 Densities of sheep - dorper.

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2002. 5.27 Densities of goats - grid.

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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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2002. 5.27 Densities of goats.

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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 S 2003. Protest, conflict and letigation: Dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in north-west Namibia. Ethnographies of conservation: environmentalism and the distribution of privilege 69-86

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Mendelsohn J, el Obeid S 2003. Sand and Water - A profile of the Kavango Region.

2002. 5.26 Densities of donkeys - grid.

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2002. 5.26 Densities of donkey.

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2002. 5.25 Densities of cattle - grid.

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2002. 5.25 Densities of cattle.

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2002. 5.24 Land cleared for cultivation - 5x5 grid.

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