Namibia

Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia

The authors combine data from household surveys, key informant interviews, and secondary sources related to regional disaster, demographic, resource, and economic trends between 1990 and 2020 from north central and central dryland Namibia to investigate (i) human migration flows and the influence of climate hazards on these flows and (ii) the benefits and dis-benefits of migration in supporting climate change adaptation, from the perspective of migrants (personal factors and intervening obstacles), areas of origin, and areas of destination.

Namibia's Future: Modeling Population and Sustainable Development Challenges in the Era of HIV/AIDS.

The paper reports reseacrh findings using computer simulation models on the demographic and economic impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and on consequent future water scarcity in Namibia.

Mitigating an elephantine epidemic: gendered space for HIV/AIDS outreach through Namibian conservancies.

The author investigated how the increase in HIV infection rate and AIDS death are related to o community-based conservation and livelihood strategies.

Global Change and Southern Africa

The author explores recent climate change scenarios for Southern Africa in terms biodiversity, agriculture and related land uses, water resources and health issues.

Botswana's Future, Mozambique's Future, Namibia's Future: Modeling Population and Sustainable Development - Challenges in the Era of HIV/AIDS

The CD-ROM is part of the population-development-environment (PDE) framework of analysis and it presents major research findings, which are based on computer simulation models. These models are calibrated on data from the 1990s and test alternative long-term development paths (to the year 2021) of population, development and environment interactions.

Population, Development, Environment Modeling Project.

Background to the Project: During the late 1980s in-house discussions between various IIASA projects, as well as extensive discussions with external experts, resulted in the conclusion that the highly complex issues of long-term population-environment interactions can be meaningfully analyzed through a series of case studies.

Population-development-environment in Namibia. Background Readings.

The text contains fifteen in-depth case studies that showcase various aspects of the interrelationships between population change, the environment and development in Namibia. In addition, the book lays the foundation for development of a scientific model to help scholars assess scenarios and policies regarding sustainable human development in Namibia and in other developing countries.

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