Africa's Lakes: Atlas of Our Changing Environment underscores the importance of developing, harnessing and sharing technologies that help provide deeper understanding of the dynamics of changes. The words and pictures within the pages also serve as a vivid reminder that Africa's lakes are a source of livelihoods for many African communities, contribute significantly to socio-economic development of the continent, and sound policy decisions and positive actions by societies and individuals are needed to sustain the lakes and the well-being of its inhabitants. The information provided will not only be useful in the context of the selected locations, but will also underscore the intrinsic value of the harnessing, visualizing and communicating technologies to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics and impacts for Africa's lakes and their environmental changes.

This presentation of environmental hotspots and issues is based primarily on satellite imagery taken over 30 years showing how human actions and geophysical activities have changed Africa's lakes. Many of the satellite images found in the 90-page hard-bound Atlas are packaged in this Powerpoint presentation format to facilitate the use of imagery by environmental policy makers, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, academics, teachers and citizens interested in using this material to visually demonstrate the changes resulting from natural processes and human-induced activities.

The PowerPoint Viewer plug-in is available on the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 website.