Geological Survey of Namibia falls under the Ministry of Mines and Energy.

AIMS

• To promote sustainable development and investment by providing and enabling an environment conducive to the optimum utilisation of Namibia's geological resources;
• to promote and to a certain extent, provide education in the fields of earth sciences;
• to enhance the understanding of the geo-environment and its interaction with our life support system (air, water, mineral resources, energy) for its current and future welfare;
• to minimise the impact of the utilisation of Namibia's geological resources on the environment by pro-active and reactive scientific appraisal of the geological aspects of new development; and
• to initiate and partake in multi-disciplinary and integrated land-use planning.

ACTIVITIES

• Waste management, geo-environmental engineering and environmental protection research;
• environmental pollution; covering surface and groundwater contamination and air pollution;
• geohazards assessments including: earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, erosion and floods;
• promote environmental policies on sustainable earth resources exploitation; and
• land-use planning with respect to sustainable development goals.