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The process by which the environment is progressively contaminated, overexploited and destroyed. (Source: RRDA)

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Harris A, Carr AS, Dash J 2014. Remote sensing of vegetation cover dynamics and resilience across southern Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 28 131-139

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243413001670

Kong TM, Austin DE, Kellner K, Orr BJ 2014. The interplay of knowledge, attitude and practice of livestock farmers' land management against desertification in the South African Kalahari. Journal of Arid Environments 105 12-21

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314000366

Dreber N, Oldeland J, van Rooyen GMW 2011. Species, functional groups and community structure in seed banks of the arid Nama Karoo: Grazing impacts and implications for rangeland restoration. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 141 (3-4) 399-409

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880911001095

Stringer LC, Dougill AJ 2013. Channelling science into policy: Enabling best practices from research on land degradation and sustainable land management in dryland Africa. Journal of Environmental Management 114 328-335

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479712005294

Lohmann D, Tietjen B, Blaum N, Joubert DF, Jeltsch F 2014. Prescribed fire as a tool for managing shrub encroachment in semi-arid savanna rangelands. Journal of Arid Environments 107 49-56

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314000846

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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Bollig M 2006. Hazards and Damages. Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment 65-143

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-27582-6_3

Dean WRJ, Macdonald IAW 1994. Historical changes in stocking rates of domestic livestock as a measure of semi-arid and arid rangeland degradation in the Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 26 (3) 281-298

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196384710305

Hulme M, Kelly M 1993. Exploring the links between Desertification and Climate Change. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 35 (6) 4-45

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00139157.1993.9929106

Reynolds JF, Smith DMS, Lambin EF, Turner BL, Mortimore M, Batterbury SPJ, Downing TE, Dowlatabadi H, Fernández RJ, Herrick JE, Huber-Sannwald E, Jiang H, Leemans R, Lynam T, Maestre FT, Ayarza M, Walker B 2007. Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development. Science 316 (5826) 847-851

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5826/847.abstract

Corbera E, Estrada M, Brown K 2010. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries: revisiting the assumptions. Climatic Change 100 (3-4) 355-388

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-009-9773-1?LI=true

Eckardt F, White K 1997. Human induced disruption of stone pavement surf aces in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia: observations from Landsat Thematic Mapper. International Journal of Remote Sensing 18 (16) 3305-3310

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311697216892

Jones S 1996. Discourses on land degradation in the Uluguru mountains, Tanzania: Evolution and influences. Journal of Rural Studies 12 (2) 187-199

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0743016796000149

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

Pelser AJ, Kherehloa T 2000. Some causes and strategies pertaining to land degradation in southern Africa. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension 29 24-46

Website link:http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajae/article/view/3627/

Dougill AJ, Thomas DSG, Heathwaite AL 1999. Environmental change in the Kalahari: integrated land degradation studies for Nonequilibrium dryland environments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (3) 420-442

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0004-5608.00156/abstract

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

Lee HF, Zhang DD 2005. Perceiving Land-Degrading Activities from the Lay Perspective in Northern China. Environmental Management 36 (5) 711-725

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00267-004-0218-3?LI=true

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

Zeidler J, Hanrahan S, Scholes M 2002. Land-use intensity affects range condition in arid to semi-arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 52 (3) 389-403

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302909900

Cammeraat LH, Imeson AC 1998. Deriving indicators of soil degradation from soil aggregation studies in southeastern Spain and southern France. Geomorphology 23 (2-4) 307-321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X98000129

Hill J, Hostert P, Tsiourlis G, Kasapidis P, Udelhoven Th, Diemer C 1998. Monitoring 20 years of increased grazing impact on the Greek island of Crete with earth observation satellites. Journal of Arid Environments 39 165-178

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398903925

Hochschild V, Märker M, Rodolfi G, Staudenrausch H 2003. Delineation of erosion classes in semi-arid southern African grasslands using vegetation indices from optical remote sensing data. Hydrological Processes 17 (5) 917-928

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.1170/abstract

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

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

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

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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303001071

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

Hamer AG, Franzel S, Mounkoro B 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

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.805/abstract

Kapalanga TS 2008. A Review of Land Degraradatation Assessment Methods.

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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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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

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

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220110109485763

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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300906475

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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019639890458X

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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479704000477

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

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Richters J 2005. Biomass changes in north-western Namibia: First results from a remote sensing modelling approach. EARSeL eProceedings 4 (2) 157 - 170

Website link:http://las.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/eProceedings/vol04_2/04_2_richters1.html

Klintenberg P, Seely M, Christiansson C 2007. Local and national perceptions of environmental change in central Northern Namibia: Do they correspond?. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (3) 506 - 525

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306003880

Katjiua M, Ward D 2007. Pastoralists perceptions and realities of vegetationchange and browse consumption in the northern Kalahari, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (4) 716 - 730

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306004204

Dreber N, Esler KJ 2011. Spatio-temporal variation in soil seed banks under contrasting grazing regimes following low and high seasonal rainfall in arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (2) 174 - 184

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310002545

Blaum N, Rossmanith E, Popp A, Jeltsch F 2007. Shrub encroachment affects mammalian carnivore abundance and species richness in semiarid rangelands. Acta Oecologica 31 (1) 86 - 92

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X06001214

Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Website link:http://www.thegef.org/gef/gef_country_prg/NA

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

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1563

Vogel M, Strohbach M 2009. Monitoring of savanna degradation in Namibia using Landsat TM/ETM+ data. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 3 III - 931

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Namibia Desertification.

Website link:http://www.namibia-desertification.org/

Jones B 1988. Bushmanland, fate in the balance. African Wildlife 42 87 - 92