Aridity, Change and Conflict in Africa

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Topography, soils and vegetation 

• Olaf Bubenzer, Andreas Bolten & Mathias Ritter: Scale-specific geomorphometry of arid regions: Examples from the Eastern Sahara Fayez Alaily: Soil patterns and land use potential in the central Eastern Sahara, southwestern Egypt
• Gunter Menz, Jochen Richters & Torsten Welle: Assessing impacts of global change on regional and local scales by means of remote sensing: Case studies from northern Namibia Game, livestock and mobility
• Achilles Gautier: Animal domestication in North Africa
• Nadja Pöllath: History hidden in bones: Holocene environmental change in northwestern Sudan
• Heiko Riemer: When hunters started herding: Pastro-foragers and the complexity of Holocene economic change in the Western Desert of Egypt
• Barbara Eichhorn & Ralf Vogelsang: A pristine landscape? Archaeological and archaeobotanical research in the Skeleton Coast Park, northwestern Namibia

Violence, conflict and identities

• Kennedy Agade Mkutu: New factors in pastoral conflict in the North Rift of northeastern Africa
• Matthias Österle: Armed economies, militarised identities, excessive violence: Automatic rifles and the transformation of nomadic pastoralism in northwestern Kenya
• Larissa Förster: Between Waterberg and Ohamakari: Namibian landscapes of memory
• Michael Schnegg: Battling borderlands: Causes and consequences of an early German colonial war in Namibia
• Ute Dieckmann: The predicament of ethnicity: Evidence from the Hai||om struggle, Namibia
• Susanne Berzborn: Identity politics in the Richtersveld Land Claim, South Africa

State, land and crisis

• Juan Carlos Moreno García: The state and the organisation of the rural landscape in 3rd millennium BC pharaonic Egypt
• Carmen Jung: Rain in ancient Egypt: A linguistic approach Michael Taylor: Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) and pastoral development in Botswana: Implications for Sand land rights
• Ben Cousins & Aninka Claassens: Communal tenure systems in South Africa: Past, present and future
• Georgios Chatzoudis: The history of the name ‘Namibia’
• Julia Pauli & Michael Schnegg: “Blood tests with the eyes”: Negotiating conjugal relations during the HIV/AIDS crisis in rural Namibia
• Harri Siiskonen: The Namibian mainline churches and HIV/AIDS