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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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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

Dumanski J, Pieri C 2000. Land quality indicators: research plan. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 81 (2) 93-102

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880900001833

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

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

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

Shvidenko A, Apps M 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

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/h162728907010587/

Trollope WSW Effects and use of fire in southern African savannas.

Website link:http://www.researchgate.net/publication/268415664_EFFECTS_AND_USE_OF_FIRE_IN_SOUTHERN_AFRICAN_SAVANNAS

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

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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

Sander H, Bollig M, Schulte A 1998. Himba Paradise Lost: Stability, degradation, and pastoralist management of the Omuhonga Basin (Namibia). Die Erde 129 301 - 315

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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

Nangula S, Oba G 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

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

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

2008. Elephant management: A scientific assessment of South Africa.

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2983

Reyers B, van Wilgen BW, Nel JL 2008. Making the most of South Africa's natural capital. Science 2008 12

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2538

Scholes RJ, Küper W, Biggs R 2006. Biodiversity. Africa environment outlook 2: Our environment, our wealth. 226 - 261

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1179

Namibia Desertification.

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

Akhtar-Schuster M, Thomas RJ, Stringer LC, Chasek P, Seely M 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

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.1058/full

Coetzee M, Kinyanga V, Kruger B, Seely M, Werner W 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

Wasiolka B, Jeltsch F, Henschel J, Blaum N 2010. Space use of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) under different degradation states. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 96-104

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01085.x/abstract

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

Burke A 2003. The role of inselbergs in a changing world - global trends. Diversity and Distributions 9 375-383

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00035.x/full

Lepetu J, Bernard FE, Orford CE 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

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

Ringrose S, Matheson W, Tempest F 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

Barker JF 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

Reavell P 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

Barker JF 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

Campbell A, Child G 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

2010. Conservation Biology for All.

Website link:http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199554249.do

O'Connor TG, Puttick JR, Hoffman MT 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

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220119.2014.939996#.VIcKnmctBHg

Hamandawana H, Chanda R, Eckardt F 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

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207230701414322#.VIVZxWctBHg

Ndhlovu T, Milton-Dean SJ, Esler KJ 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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van Rooyen N, van Rooyen MW 1998. Vegetation of the south-western arid Kalahari: An overview. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 53 (2) 113-140

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359199809520381#.VGsELFItBHg

Bester B 1996. Bush encroachment: a thorny problem.. Namibia Environment 1 175-177

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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