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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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Wily LA 2011. The tragedy of public lands: The fate of the commons under global commercial pressure.

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The tragedy of public lands.pdf	1.2 MB

The Northern Regions Livestock Development Project (NOLIDEP) - Section 5: Kavango.

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NOLIDEP regional reports_incomplete.pdf	46.63 MB

Bartlam-Brooks HLA, Bonyongo MC, Harris S 2013. How landscape scale changes affect ecological processes in conservation areas: external factors influence land use by zebra (Equus burchelli) in the Okavango Delta. Ecology and Evolution 3 (9) 2795-2805

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How landscape scale changes affect ecological processes in conservation areas.pdf	1.92 MB

Magole L 2009. Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of the Botswana Portion of the Okavango River Basin - Land Use Planning.

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Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of the Botswana Portion of the Okavango River Basin.pdf	1.16 MB

Tawana Land Board 2009. Ngamiland integrated land use plan.

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Ngamiland Integrated Land Use Plan_ Final report March 2009.pdf	2.19 MB

Hitchcock RK 2012. Refugees, resettlement, and land and resource conflicts: The politics of identity among !Xun and Khwe San in northeastern Namibia. African Study Monographs 33 (2) 73-132

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Hitchcock Pub Refugee Resettlement Tsumkwe West 2012.pdf	2.37 MB

Fullman TJ 2009. Spatial dynamics of elephant impacts on trees in Chobe National Park, Botswana.

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Elephant impacts on trees in Chobe National Park.pdf	443.35 KB

Graz FP 1996. Management of a Pterocarpus angolensis population under the influence of fire and land use.

Website link:http://www.worldcat.org/title/management-of-a-pterocarpus-angolensis-population-under-the-influence-of-fire-and-land-use/oclc/85927310

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

Vanderpost C, Ringrose S, Matheson W, Arntzen J 2011. Satellite based long-term assessment of rangeland condition in semi-arid areas: An example from Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (4) 383-389

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310003022

Herremans M 1998. Conservation status of birds in Botswana in relation to land use. Biological Conservation 86 (2) 139-160

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320798000160

Popp A, Domptail S, Blaum N, Jeltsch F 2009. Landuse experience does qualify for adaptation to climate change. Ecological Modelling 220 (5) 694-702

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380008005772

de Vries WT 2004. How progressive land titling could foster new surveying practices and land information systems-based on case studies in Namibia. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 28 (5) 531-544

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971503001121

Adams ME 1993. Options for land reform in Namibia. Land Use Policy 10 (3) 191-196

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0264837793900142

Herremans M, Herremans-Tonnoeyr D 2000. Land use and the conservation status of raptors in Botswana. Biological Conservation 94 (1) 31-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320799001664

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

Werner W 1997. From Communal Pastures to Enclosures: the Development of Land Tenure in Herero Reserves.

Widlok T 2003. Institutional Dynamics of Changing Land Care Practices in the Central Namib Desert. How Institutions Change 205-228

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-322-80936-0_12

Jonakin J 1996. The impact of structural adjustment and property rights conflicts on Nicaraguan Agrarian reform beneficiaries. World Development 24 (7) 1179-1191

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0305750X96000290

The Future Okavango - Scientific support for sustainable land and resource management in the Okavango basin.

Website link:http://www.future-okavango.org/

Fourie C 1998. The role of local land administrators: an African perspective. Land Use Policy 15 (1) 55-66

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837797000409

Shaw WH 2003. 'They Stole Our Land': debating the expropriation of white farms in Zimbabwe. Journal of Modern African Studies 41 (1) 75-89

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3876190

May J, Stevens T, Stols A 2002. Monitoring the impact of land reform on quality of life: a South African case study. Social Indicators Research 58 (1/3) 293-312

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/27527012

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

Hall R 2004. A Political Economy of Land Reform in South Africa. Review of African Political Economy 31 (100) 213-227

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305624042000262257

Kinsey BH, Binswanger HP 1993. Characteristics and performance of resettlement programs: A review. World Development 21 (9) 1477-1494

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0305750X9390128V

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

Roth M, Sukume C, Mupambireyi D, Ncube N 2003. Farm Size Protection, Informal Subdivisions: The Impact of Subdivision Policy on Land Delivery and Security of Property Rights in Zimbabwe. Session 2: Role of Private Land Markets in redistributing land to the historically disadvantaged delivering land and securing rural livelihoods: Post-Independence Land Reform and Resettlement in Zimbabwe.

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The Impact of Subdivision Policy on Land Delivery and Security of Property Rights in Zimbabwe.pdf	273.25 KB

Tomlinson KW, Hearne JW, Alexander RR 2002. An approach to evaluate the effect of property size on land-use options in semi-arid rangelands. Ecological Modelling 149 (1-2) 85-95

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380001005166

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

Herzog F, Lausch A 2001. Supplementing Land-Use Statistics with Landscape Metrics: Some Methodological Considerations. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 72 37-50

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1011949704308?LI=true

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

Coppolillo PB 2000. The Landscape Ecology of Pastoral Herding: Spatial Analysis of Land Use and Livestock Production in East Africa. Human Ecology 28 (4) 527-560

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4603371?uid=4&sid=21101373936633

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

Borras SM 2003. Questioning Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Experiences from Brazil, Colombia and South Africa. Journal of Agrarian Change 3 (3) 367-394

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0366.00059/abstract

Twyman C, Dougill AJ, Sporton D, Thomas DSG 2001. A case of community self empowerment, Okonyoka, Eastern Namibia: environmental and policy implications. Review of African Political Economy 28 (87) 9-26

Website link:http://www.roape.org/087/02.html

Hitchcock RK, Murphree MW 1998. The Kxoe of West Caprivi, Namibia: Conflicts over land, resource rights, and development. Indigenous Affairs 4 46-51

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The Kxoe of West Caprivi_Namibia.pdf	7 MB

Hitchcock RK 2003. Land, Livestock and Leadership among the Ju/'hoansi San of North Western Botswana. Anthropologica 45 (1) 89-94

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25606116

Vegetation Survey of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/index.php?id=survey

2010. Building climate change resilience for African livestock in sub-Sahara Africa - World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP): a program of IUCN. viii

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Building climate change resilience for African livestock in sub_Sahara Africa.pdf	2.74 MB

Kuiper SM, Meadows ME 2002. Sustainability of livestock farming in the communal lands of Southern Namibia. Land Degradation and Development 13 (1) 1 - 15

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.476/abstract

Wallgren M, Skarpe C, Bergström R, Danell K, Bergström A, Jakobsson T, Karlsson K, Strand T 2009. Influence of land use on the abundance of wildlife and livestock in the Kalahari, Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (3) 314 - 321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308002826

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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Land Degradation Monitoring in Namibia_A First Approximation.pdf	1.52 MB

Wesuls D, Lang H 2010. Perceptions and Measurements: The Assessment of Pasture States in a Semi-Arid Area of Namibia. Human Ecology 38 (2) 305 - 312

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/708640623mj73085/

Uhlmann E, Görke C, Petersen A, Oberwinkler F 2006. Arbuscular mycorrhizae from arid parts of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environment 64 (2) 221 - 237

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305001278

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

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Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.pdf	80.99 KB

Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Does land use matter in an arid envrionment? A case study from the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 53 (4) 529 - 543

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Does land use matter in an arid envrionment_A case study from the Hoanib River catchment_upload_Exists.pdf	189.47 KB

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302910669

Buss HJ, Nuppenau E-A 2002. More Sustainable Range Use in Semi-Arid Eco-Systems through adapted Management: A case Study on Namibian Farms based on Bio-Economic Models.

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More Sustainable Range Use in Semi_Arid Eco_Systems through adapted Management.pdf	87.49 KB

African Journal of Range and Forage Science.

Website link:http://www.ajol.info/

Boonzaier EA, Hoffman MT, Archer FM, Smith AB 1990. Communal land use and the "tragedy of the commons": Some problems and development perspectives with specific reference to semi-arid regions of southern Africa. Journal of the Grassland Society of southern Africa 7 (2) 77 - 80

Website link:http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajrfs/article/view/952/