Southern African Dunes (en Inglés) - Frank Eckardt

This book covers the dunes of southern Africa, providing a regional overview while engaging with broader cross-cutting themes, research, and applications. It includes methodological chapters on recent advances in remote sensing and ground-based process monitoring, an overview of distinctive and unusual dune morphologies, and contributions on dune biology, ecology, and hydrology. The book also features extensive chapters on the region’s diverse coastal dunes, dune mining, and coastal dune management, before concluding with insights of dune related archaeology and fossil dunes in southern Africa’s geological record. Readers will gain insights into the Namib Sand Sea, the Kalahari dune systems that extend beyond Botswana, and the extensive coastal dunes of South Africa, among many other topics.