Impact of land use land cover changes on ecosystem service values in the Dire and Legedadi watersheds, central highlands of Ethiopia: Implication for landscape management decision making

Assessing the impact of Land use changes on ecosystem services in the Alledighe rangeland, Ethiopia

“…These years were selected for analysis due to the desire to utilize as much quality data as possible. Further, going as far back as possible to monitor trends of wildlife management policy transformation [ 63 , 66 ] and changes that occurred following the transfer of responsibility for managing the protected area to the federal Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority in 2008 can also be attributed to this study.…”

“…Landsat images obtained from the US Geological Survey (USGS) website were acquired as compressed files for the years 1998 and 2016 and were subsequently converted to TIFF format. The data underwent projection to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection system zone 37 N with a datum of World Geodetic System 84 (WGS84) to guarantee consistency and compatibility [ 63 ].…”

“…The entire suite of images underwent classification using a supervised classification method with a maximum likelihood classifier [ 63 ], whereby representative ground truth data were gathered to train classifiers and associate the reflectance property with the object, thus enabling accurate automatic classification [ 83 , 84 ].…”

“…A lack of understanding of the value of protected landscapes can lead to the ineffective promotion of an ecosystem [ 61 ]. The availability of reliable information on the values of ecosystem services can increase the visibility of PAs at the highest levels of decision-making [ 53 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 ]; increase public awareness [ 66 ] and imply land use management schemes [ 67 , 63 ]. Therefore, this assessment could assist protected area authorities in integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services in planning and demonstrating the landscape benefits to local communities and the national economy [ 68 ].…”

Ecosystem-based management approaches for watershed conservation and geosustainability

“…The inclusion of international stocks in conventional fishery management introduces additional complexities because it necessitates consideration of stakeholders who may not fall under direct control [ 1 ]. Furthermore, findings from a study [ 2 ] suggest that climate change will lead to a redistribution of fish populations with an estimated 23–35 % of worldwide Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) seeing the emergence of new international streams by 2150. To address these complexities, this study employs a paired model integrating games and ecology to investigate the potential of environment-based governance in promoting agreements among nations exploiting international resources.…”