The larger wetlands of Sub-Saharan Africa, cover 2,072,775 km 2 (9.01%) of the landmass.
This paper reviews the major threats, including climate change, to these wetlands, a number …

The Okavango Delta is dominated by annual flood events from the Okavango River. During
such events the inundated area increases from about 5000km2 to 6000–12,000 km2 …

Changes in hydrological inputs to the flood-pulsed Okavango Delta result in changes in
such flooding characteristics as floodplain water depth, inundation duration and frequency …

The Okavango basin comprises the Cuito and Cubango active catchment areas in Angola,
in addition to the Kavango–Okavango non-active catchment in northern Namibia and …

Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing
and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adaptation responses …

This paper describes the impacts that three shocks in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, have
had on rural livelihoods: the desiccation of river channels, animal diseases, and HIV/AIDS …

In semi-arid developing countries, most poor people depend on contaminated surface or
groundwater resources since they do not have access to safe and centrally supplied water …

Global warming is associated with the continued increase in the atmospheric concentrations
of greenhouse gases; carbon dioxide, methane (CH 4) and nitrous oxide. Wetlands …

The natural resources of the Okavango Delta, a large wetland in semi-arid Botswana, form
the basis of livelihoods of the local population and support economically important high-end …

The annual flood cycle in the Okavango Delta is the basis of subsistence of the local
population, providing water, arable land and wetland resources. Additionally, it forms the …