Land use/cover dynamics and its drivers in Gelda catchment, Lake Tana watershed, Ethiopia

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• 作者：Ebrahim Esa Hassen ; Mohamed Assen
• 关键词：LULC change ; Population pressure ; Driving forces ; GIS ; Remote sensing ; Change detection
• 刊名：Environmental Systems Research
• 出版年：2018
• 出版时间：January 2018
• 年：0
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1695KB
• 刊物主题：Monitoring/Environmental Analysis;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：2193-2697
• 卷排序：6

文摘

Background The demand for meeting local food production has caused farmlands to expand at the cost of natural forests and grasslands in the Ethiopian highlands. However, empirical evidences on rate and patterns of LULC dynamics, and major driving forces in highlands of Ethiopia at catchment level were rare to contribute to design effective land management options. This study was to analyze the rate and patterns of LULC dynamics, and identify major driving forces in the Gelda catchment.