Monitoring land use change in an African tribal village on the rural-urban fringe

Nkambwe, Musisi; Arnberg, Wolter

doi:10.1016/0143-6228(96)00014-8

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“…Built-up areas were significantly increasing, indicating population growth (as shown in Figure 2). The expansion is a result of rural-urban migration to Gaborone city, which in turn overspills into the neighboring settlements [68,69] and may lead to unprecedented challenges and environmental problems. Sebego and Gwebu [72] concur with this as they found out that built-up areas were increasing in the city, taking land in the surrounding areas and impacting the rural-urban link as observed by Keiner and Cavric [68].…”

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“…Similar to many other developing countries, an urbanization wave has been observed in Botswana. This is mainly driven by migration fluxes from rural to urban centers and is directed to the city of Gaborone and its neighboring settlements [68,69]. As a growing city in SSA, the problems of over-urbanization could be more accurate here than elsewhere [70].…”

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Evaluating Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Gaborone Dam Catchment, Botswana, from 1984–2015 Using GIS and Remote Sensing

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Land use land cover (LULC) change is one of the major driving forces of global environmental change in many developing countries. In this study, LULC changes were evaluated in the Gaborone dam catchment in Botswana between 1984 and 2015. The catchment is a major source of water supply to Gaborone city and its surrounding areas. The study employed Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) using Landsat imagery of 1984, 1995, 2005 and 2015. Image classification for each of these imageries was done through supervised classification using the Maximum Likelihood Classifier. Six major LULC categories, cropland, bare land, shrub land, built-up area, tree savanna and water bodies, were identified in the catchment. It was observed that shrub land and tree savanna were the major LULC categories between 1984 and 2005 while shrub land and cropland dominated the catchment area in 2015. The rates of change were generally faster in the 1995–2005 and 2005–2015 periods. For these periods, built-up areas increased by 59.8 km2 (108.3%) and 113.2 km2 (98.5%), respectively, while bare land increased by 50.3 km2 (161.1%) and 99.1 km2 (121.5%). However, in the overall period between 1984 and 2015, significant losses were observed for shrub land, 763 km2 (29.4%) and tree savanna, 674 km2 (71.3%). The results suggest the need to closely monitor LULC changes at a catchment scale to facilitate water resource management and to maintain a sustainable environment.

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Evaluating Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Gaborone Dam Catchment, Botswana, from 1984–2015 Using GIS and Remote Sensing

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“…Low-density development has also been indicated as a major source of landuse change in Australia (Burnley and Murphy, 1995), Africa (Nkambwe and Arnberg, 1996), and Finland (Clergeau et al, 2001) among other countries. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between housing density and reported human-wildlife interactions within the context of development transforming landscapes and the ecosystems contained in those landscapes.…”

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Housing density as an indicator of spatial patterns of reported human–wildlife interactions in Northern New York

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Sullivan

Knuth

2008

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Chinese hollowed village reclamation focuses on transformation to cultivated land; it differs from village reclamation in other countries. For example, Botswana allocates vacant lands in villages to residential plots [21], and Senegal and America reconstruct villages into new settlements [22,23].…”

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Willingness of Farmers to Transform Vacant Rural Residential Land into Cultivated Land in a Major Grain-Producing Area of Central China

2016

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Abstract:A large amount of cultivated lands in China is occupied by vacant residential areas, thereby wasting land resources and placing local food security at risk. Therefore, transforming vacant rural residential land back to its previous form is urgently required to maintain the amount of cultivated land and guarantee food security. We comprehensively analyzed the willingness of farmers to participate in vacant residential land transformation and determine the factors that influence such willingness, including the awareness of farmers about their rural residential environment, their knowledge of residential land-use policies and their awareness of the consequences of such transformation. A detailed survey was conducted amongst 252 farmers owning vacant residential lands in central China. Amongst these farmers, 75, 87 and 90 were entirely, partly and not living on farming, respectively. Only half of these farmers were willing to transform the vacant residential land, whilst those farmers who were partly living on farming were less willing to participate in the transformation than those who were entirely and were not living on farming. The factors that influence the willingness to transform varied across different types of farmers. Farmers who were not and were partly living on farming were significantly affected by their awareness of their rural residential environment, their knowledge of residential land-use policies, the length of residential land vacant time and their household income. Those farmers who were partly living on farming were also influenced by the number of vacant residential plots they possessed. Farmers who were entirely living on farming were significantly affected by their knowledge of the residential land-use policies, the number of vacant residential plots they possessed, their awareness of the consequences of land transformation and their family size. Results indicate that farmers are anxious about vacant residential land loss and that a communication gap is observed between them. Therefore, along with the communication between farmers and the government, the publicity and transparency of the rural residential land-use policies must be improved to eliminate the communication gap, relieve the anxiety of farmers, and increase the willingness to transform their vacant residential lands.

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Monitoring land use change in an African tribal village on the rural-urban fringe

Cited by 17 publications

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Evaluating Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Gaborone Dam Catchment, Botswana, from 1984–2015 Using GIS and Remote Sensing

Evaluating Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Gaborone Dam Catchment, Botswana, from 1984–2015 Using GIS and Remote Sensing

Housing density as an indicator of spatial patterns of reported human–wildlife interactions in Northern New York

Willingness of Farmers to Transform Vacant Rural Residential Land into Cultivated Land in a Major Grain-Producing Area of Central China

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