Spatial Assessment of Land Degradation Risk for the Okavango River Catchment, Southern Africa

• Published in: Land degradation & development Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 281 - 294
• Main Authors: Weinzierl, Thomas, Wehberg, Jan, Böhner, Jürgen, Conrad, Olaf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester John Wiley & Sons 01.02.2016; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Assessments; Catchments; climate; Climate change; climate models; Deforestation; Degradation; Demography; Ecological function; Ecosystems; geographic information systems; GIS; infrastructure; Land; land cover; Land degradation; land productivity; Livestock; Okavango region; overgrazing; Population growth; Ratings; Remote sensing; Risk; risk assessment; Risk factors; River catchments; rivers; Socioeconomics; soil; Soil (material); Soil degradation; Southern Africa; stakeholders; topography; vegetation; watersheds; Southern Africa; South Africa; Africa, Okavango R; Botswana, Ngamiland, Okavango Delta; Africa

The Okavango catchment in southern Africa is subject to environmental as well as socio‐economic transformation processes such as population growth and climate change. The degradation of soil and vegetation by deforestation and overgrazing is one of the downsides of this development, reducing the cap...