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Southern African Arid Lands: Current Status and Future Prospects

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Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands

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Southern Africa south of 150° S latitude includes all or part of several countries. The situation in the dryland portion of each of them is described and the underlying factors are explained. Land degradation affects significant areas of most of the countries. Measures taken to arrest and reverse land degradation are explained. Climate change, trends and projections are discussed. Various scenarios are offered.

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  1. Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

    Klaus Kellner

  2. Global Change and Ecosystems Dynamics: Natural Resources and the Environment, CSIR, Meiring Naude Road, Brummeria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Graham von Maltitz

  3. Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN), Windhoek, Namibia

    Mary Seely

  4. Geomorphology and Climate Change, P/Bag UB0704, Faculty of Science, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

    Julius Atlhopheng

  5. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Lehman Lindeque

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  1. ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Mahesh K. Gaur

  2. Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing, China

    Victor R. Squires

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Kellner, K., von Maltitz, G., Seely, M., Atlhopheng, J., Lindeque, L. (2018). Southern African Arid Lands: Current Status and Future Prospects. In: Gaur, M., Squires, V. (eds) Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56681-8_12

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