This document is a compilation of responses to a query I posted on several scholarly discussion lists (EANTH-L (environmental anthro), H-SAFRICA and
H-AFRICA (Southern African & African History))--thanks to all who recommended articles, and apologies for not thanking everyone individually. The bibliography includes works on other parts of Africa as well, for comparative and overview purposes.

respondents included:
Michael Sheridan, Middlebury College
Richard Hasler
David PL Schindler
Davis Bullwinkle
Clifton Crais, Kenyon College
Blair Orr, Michigan Technological University
George E. Brooks
Werner Hillebrecht, National Archives of Namibia

(I have removed e-mail addresses to avoid spammers)

news clipping re drought and morality
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2144053.stm

Grove, R. Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940. Cambridge (UK): White Horse Press, 1997, esp. ch. 3.

Hasler R ( 2000) The Okavango Delta and the End of Progress: Global
Transformation and Community Based Wildlife Management, Botswana Notes and
Records, Vol 31

Hasler R(1996) Agriculture,Foraging and Wildlife Resource Use in Africa:
Cultural and Political Dynamics in the Zambezi Valley, New York and
London, Kegan Paul International and Columbia University Press.

Andringa, J. "The Climate of Botswana in Histograms." Botswana Notes and
Records.
Volume 16 1984. pp. 117-125.

Beresford, A.K.C. and Davies, T.D. and Vincent, C.E. "Rift Valley Lakes
Record East
Africa's Climate." Geographical Magazine. Volume 53 #15 December, 1981.
pp. 976-980.

Brown, R.C. "Climate and Climatic Trends in the Ghanzi District." Botswana
Notes and
Records. Volume 6 1974. pp. 133-146.

Bulman, W.E. and Farquharson, J.R. "The Climate and Welfare of
Tanganyika."
Tanganyika Notes and Records. Volume 20 1945. pp. 24+.

Endfield, G.H. and Nash, D.J. "Drought, Desiccation and Discourse:
Missionary
Correspondence and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change in Central Southern
Africa."
Geographical Journal. Volume 168 #1 April, 2002. pp. 33-47.

Kinuthia, Joseph H. "Global Warming and Climate Impacts in Southern
Africa: How
Might Things Change?" Internet Journal of African Studies. #2 March, 1997
Available
at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/research/ijas/ijasno2/kinuthia.html

Lema, Anderson J. "Climate and Food Crisis in Tanzania During the 20 Year
Period of
the Arusha Declaration." Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review.
Volume 3 #1
January, 1987. pp. 20-37.

McCann, James C. "Climate and Causation in African History."
International Journal
of African Historical Studies. Volume 32 #2-#3 1999. pp. 261-279.

Nicolson, Sharon E. "The Methodology of Historical Climate Reconstruction
and Its
Application to Africa." Journal of African History. Volume 20 #1 1979. pp.
31-50.

Prins, F.E. "Climate, Vegetation and Early Agriculturist Communities in
Transkei and
KwaZulu-Natal." Azania: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern
Africa. Volume
29-30 1994. pp. 179-186.

Ramdhani, Narissa. "The Effects of Climate and Disease on African Farming
in NAtal,
1895-1905." South African Journal of Economic History. Volume 4 #1 March,
1989. pp.
79-90.

Rowlands, Ian H. "South Africa and Global Climate Change." Journal of
Modern African
Studies. Volume 34 #1 March, 1996. pp. 163-178.

Van Regenmortel, G. "Climate Variability in Botswana and ENSO (El
Nino-Southern
Oscillation)." Botswana Notes and Records. Volume 29 1997. pp. 63-79.

Wayland, E.J. "Past Climates and Present Groundwater Supplies in the
Bechuanaland
Protectorate." Botswana Notes and Records. Volume 13 1981. pp. 13-18.

White, Rodney R. "Environmental Priorities for Africa: Linkages Between
Climate
Change and Basic Human Needs." Canadian Journal of African Studies. Volume
31 #2
1997. pp. 301-314.

Ballard, "Drought in Southern Africa," in Journal of Interdisciplinary
History;
'Glantz, Drought and Hunger in Africa

Dean, W.R.J., and S.J. Milton. 1999. The Karoo: Ecological patterns and
processes. Cambridge U. Press.

Cowling, R.M., et al. 1997. The Vegetation of Southern Africa. Cambridge
U. Press

McClanahan, T.R. and T.P. Young.1996. East African ecosystems and their
conservation. Oxford University Press.

Weber, W., et al. 2001. African Rain Forest Ecology & Conservation. Yale
University Press.

Nicholson, S.E. (1978). Climatic variations in the Sahel and other African
regions during the past five centuries. Journal of Arid Environments
1:3-24.

Heterogeneity, speciation/extinction history and climate: explaining
regional plant diversity patterns in the Cape Floristic Region
Cowling, RM*; Lombard, AT
Diversity and Distributions [Divers. Distrib.]. Vol. 8, no. 3, pp.
163-179.
May 2002.

Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
Hannah, L; Midgley, GF; Lovejoy, T; Bond, WJ; Bush, M; Lovett, JC; Scott,
D; Woodward, FI
Conservation Biology [Conserv. Biol.]. Vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 264-268. Feb
2002.

Sub-saharan desertification and productivity are linked to hemispheric
climate variability
Oba, G; Post, E; Stenseth, NC
Global Change Biology [Global Change Biol.]. Vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 241-246.
Mar 2001.

Late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa
Tyson, PD; Odada, EO; Partridge, TC
South African Journal of Science [S. Afr. J. Sci.]. Vol. 97, no. 3-4, pp.
139-149. Mar-Apr 2001.

Plant diversity and endemism in sub-Saharan tropical Africa
Linder, HP
Journal of Biogeography [J. Biogeogr.]. Vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 169-182. Feb
2001.

The influence of climate change on the distribution of indigenous forest
in
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Eeley, HAC; Lawes, MJ; Piper, SE
Journal of Biogeography [J. Biogeogr.]. Vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 595-617. May
1999.

Climate, flora and fauna changes in the Sahara over the past 500 million
years
Le Houerou, HN
Journal of Arid Environments [J. ARID ENVIRON.]. Vol. 37, no. 4, pp.
619-647. Dec 1997.

Climate change: some likely multiple impacts in Southern Africa.
Magadza, C.H.D.
Food policy. 9, no. 2 (Apr 1994): p. 165-191.

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For an important contribution, T.N. Huffman, "Archaeological evidence for
climate change during the last 2000 years in Southern Africa, Quaternary
International 33: 55-60 (1996). For comparative studies on West Africa,
see the contributions by Joanna Casey and George E. Brooks in Graham Connah, ed.,
Transformations in Africa; Essays on Africa's Later Past (London, 1998).

GROVE, A.T.
Landforms and climatic change in the Kalahari and Ngamiland / A. T.
Grove, in: Geographical journal, vol.135, pp.191-212 : map, diagrs. -
1969

WALTER, HEINRICH
Die Periodizitt von Trocken- und Regenjahren in
Deutsch-Sdwestafrika auf Grund von Jahresringuntersuchungen an
Bumen (Vorlufige Mitteilung) / Heinrich Walter, in: Berichte der
Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft, vol.54, no.10, pp.608-620. -
Berlin-Dahlem, 1936

DYER, T.G.J.
On the variation of rainfall over South West Africa / T. G. J. Dyer
and M. E. Marker, in: South African geographical journal, vol.60,
no.2, pp.144-149. - Braamfontein, 1978

OLSZEWSKI, JOHN D.S.
The history of drought / J. Olszewski, in: Drought impacts and
preparedness in Namibia : final draft of papers [...] to the
Concluding Project Workshop, Windhoek, 8-9 December 1993, pp.33-58. -
Windhoek : NEPRU, 1994

TYSON, P.D.
Climate and desertification in southern Africa / P. D. Tyson, in: Geo
journal : supplementary issue, vol.2, pp.. - Wiesbaden, 1981

SHAW, PAUL A.
Fluctuations in the level of Lake Ngami : the historical evidence /
by Paul Shaw, in: Botswana notes and records, vol.15, pp.79-84 :
ill., map. - Gaborone, 1983

SHAW, PAUL A.
The desiccation of Lake Ngami : an historical perspective, in:
Geographical journal, vol.151, no.3, pp.318-326 : maps. - London,
1985

GELLERT, JOHANNES FURCHTEGOTT
Die Niederschlagsschwankungen im Hochland von Sdwestafrika /
Johannes F. Gellert. - Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 1955. - 70 p. : 18
maps ; 30 cm. - (Abhandlungen des Meteorologischen und Hydrologischen
Dienstes der Deutschen demokratischen Republik ; vol.4, no.32).

KOKOT, D.F.
An investigation into the evidence bearing on recent climatic changes
over southern Africa / by D. F. Kokot. - Pretoria : Government
Printer, 1948. - 160 p. : map ; 24 cm. - (Union of South Africa.
Irrigation Department memoir).

TYSON, P.D.
Climatic change and variability in Southern Africa / P. D. Tyson. -
Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 1987. - ix, 220 p. : ill., maps,
diagr. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0-19-570430-4

HUSS, WALTER
Jahresringuntersuchungen an Acacia giraffae und Copaifera coleosperma
und ihre Auswertung fr die Frage einer Klimanderung in
Deutsch-Sdwestafrika / von Walter Huss. - [Stuttgart], 1944. - iii,
ii, 234 p. : 52 pl. ; 30 cm.

- Stuttgart, Technische Hochschule, Diss., 1944.
JUNG, FRITZ
Untersuchungen ber Regenschwankungen und Hufigkeit unter
Bercksichtigung des Anbaus, ausgefhrt am Beispiel Sdafrikas / von
Fritz Jung. - Giessen : Jung, 1932. - 58 p. : diagr., 30 maps ; 22
cm.

- Giessen, Univ., Diss., 1932.
CLARENCE-SMITH, WILLIAM GERVASE, 1948-
Drought in southern Angola and northern Namibia - 1837 to 1945 / by
W. G. Clarence-Smith. - London, [1974?]. - 4, [2] p. ; 30 cm.

HUTCHINSON, PETER
The climatology of Namibia and its relevance to the drought situation
/ Peter Hutchinson, in: Coping with aridity : drought impacts and
preparedness in Namibia - experiences from 1992/93 / ed. Richard
Moorsom, pp.17-38. - Windhoek : NEPRU ; Frankfurt/M : Brandes & Apsel
, 1995

OLSZEWSKI, JOHN D.S.
Rainfall records and the analysis of drought / John D. S. Olszewski &
Richard Moorsom, in: Coping with aridity : drought impacts and
preparedness in Namibia - experiences from 1992/93 / ed. Richard
Moorsom, pp.39-50. - Windhoek : NEPRU ; Frankfurt/M : Brandes & Apsel
, 1995

VEDDER, HEINRICH
100 Regenzeiten in Sdwestafrika / [Heinrich Vedder], in:
Afrikanischer Heimatkalender, 1943, pp.63-70. - Windhoek, 1942

SMIT, PIERRE
Does El Nino really affect rainfall in Namibia / Pierre Smit, in:
Journal / Namibia Scientific Society, vol.46 (1997/98), pp.67-81 :
diagrs. - Windhoek, 1998

BOTHA, LOUIS
History of drought in Namibia / Louis Botha, in: Agricola (ISSN
1015-2334), no.10 (1989/1999), pp.5-12 : maps. - Windhoek, 1999

SEELY, MARY KATHRYN
Climate variability : implications for sustainable natural resource
management (Keynote address). - Pretoria, 1999. - 10 p.
- Paper, International Conference on Integrated Drought Management,
Pretoria, 1999.

HEINE, KLAUS
Klimawandel und Desertifikation im sdlichen Afrika - ein Blick in
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TYSON, P.D.
The atmosphere, aerosols, trace gases and biogeochemical change in
southern Africa : a regional integration / P.D. Tyson and C.K. Gatebe
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TYSON, P.D.
Late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa / P.D. Tyson,
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Pretoria, 2001