People and sustainable land management: assessment of stakeholders knowledge of the nature of landuse/cover change in Abuja, Nigeria

Mashi, Sani Abubakar; Shuaibu, Hassana Suleiman

doi:10.1007/s10708-017-9782-y

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“…While addressing the problems of unguided urban development using land use planning, the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) of Abuja implemented mass evictions in the inner city, accompanied by strict demolition of informal settlements between 2003 and 2007 [57][58][59]. Addressing the key challenges of housing is particularly urgent given that this is one of Sub-Saharan Africa's fastest-growing city-regions with an average annual population growth rate of about 5.3% [48]. The population was estimated to be 1.4 million in 2006 [52], growing to 2.3 million in 2015 [48].…”

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“…Addressing the key challenges of housing is particularly urgent given that this is one of Sub-Saharan Africa's fastest-growing city-regions with an average annual population growth rate of about 5.3% [48]. The population was estimated to be 1.4 million in 2006 [52], growing to 2.3 million in 2015 [48]. Additionally, the population was estimated to be 3.8 million in 2017 using a 9.1% growth rate defined by the National Population Commission [9].…”

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“…Outside the Sub-Saharan Africa region, Slunge and Tran [47] posit that inadequate training, financial resources are key challenges to institutionalizing SEA in Vietnam. Addressing these key challenges may be helpful to improve the environmental sustainability of city-regions, but may not be the answer to all problems, considering the fast rate of urbanization [48][49][50][51] that planning cannot keep up with and the challenges to control such urbanization by local, regional, and national governments. However, the development of the Abuja cityregion from scratch using land use planning strategies [52] makes it the best-case study for investigating land use planning and environmental assessment challenges, considering the long-term benefits of the SEA process that can vastly exceed the short-term cost [36].…”

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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

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Gollnow

Walker

et al. 2021

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Land use planning as strategic instruments to guide urban dynamics faces particular challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa, where urgent interventions are required to improve urban and environmental sustainability. This study investigated and identified key challenges of land use planning and its environmental assessments to improve the urban and environmental sustainability of city-regions. In doing so, we combined expert interviews and questionnaires with spatial analyses of urban and regional land use plans, as well as current and future urban land cover maps derived from Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing. By overlaying and contrasting land use plans and land cover maps, we investigated spatial inconsistencies between urban and regional plans and the associated urban land dynamics and used expert surveys to identify the causes of such inconsistencies. We furthermore identified and interrogated key challenges facing land use planning, including its environmental assessment procedures, and explored means for overcoming these barriers to rapid, yet environmentally sound urban growth. The results illuminated multiple inconsistencies (e.g., spatial conflicts) between urban and regional plans, most prominently stemming from conflicts in administrative boundaries and a lack of interdepartmental coordination. Key findings identified a lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment and inadequate implementation of land use plans caused by e.g., insufficient funding, lack of political will, political interference, corruption as challenges facing land use planning strategies for urban and environmental sustainability. The baseline information provided in this study is crucial to improve strategic planning and urban/environmental sustainability of city-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the Global South, where land use planning faces similar challenges to address haphazard urban expansion patterns.

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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

et al. 2021

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“…In Abuja, Nigeria, previous research (e.g., Enoguanbhor et al 2019;Mashi and Shuaibu 2018;Usman 2013;Ejaro and Abubakar 2013;Ade and Afolabi 2013;Fanan et al 2011;Idoko and Bisong 2010;Ujoh et al 2010) have successfully analyzed past urban expansion but without developing scenarios of possible future urban expansion and with little or no implications for future environmentally sensitive areas designated by land use plans. In one of the few studies about future urban development in Abuja, Nigeria, Mahmoud et al (2016) show that the possible future urban dynamics in Abuja, Nigeria may grow significantly to the detriment of vegetation cover, but the authors did not develop spatial planning scenarios for the prediction.…”

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Simulating Urban Land Expansion in the Context of Land Use Planning in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

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In the Global South, including the Sub-Saharan African city-regions, the possible future urban expansion patterns may pose a challenge towards improving environmental sustainability. Land use planning strategies and instruments for regulating urban expansion are faced with challenges, including insufficient data availability to offer insights into the possible future urban expansion. This study integrated empirical data derived from Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, and surveys of experts to offer insights into the possible future urban expansion under spatial planning scenarios to support land use planning and environmental sustainability of city-regions. We analyzed the spatial determinants of urban expansion, calibrated the land cover model using the Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network and Markov, and developed three scenarios to simulate land cover from 2017 to 2030 and to 2050. The scenarios include Business As Usual that extrapolates past trends; Regional Land Use Plan that restricts urban expansion to the land designated for urban development, and; Adjusted Urban Land that incorporates the leapfrogged settlements into the land designated for urban development. Additionally, we quantified the potential degradation of environmentally sensitive areas by future urban expansion under the three scenarios. Results indicated a high, little, and no potential degradation of environmentally sensitive areas by the future urban expansion under the Business As Usual, Adjusted Urban Land, and Regional Land Use Plan scenarios respectively. The methods and the baseline information provided, especially from the Adjusted Urban Land scenario showed the possibility of balancing the need for urban expansion and the protection of environmentally sensitive areas. This would be useful to improve the environmental sustainability of the Sub-Saharan African city-regions and across the Global South, where insufficient data availability challenges land use planning.

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“…Several aspects and processes of landscape change perceptions have been addressed by previous studies analyzing interviews with stakeholders. We differentiate two main aspects: first, the processes of local landscape trends (Dallimer et al 2009, Herrmann et al 2014, Mashi and Shuaibu 2018, including their drivers (Mbow et al 2008, Bezák and Mitchley 2014, Ariti et al 2015, Bürgi et al 2017; and second, the social values, uses, and attitudes associated with landscape elements and their changes (Bardsley andEdwards-Jones 2007, Byg et al 2017). Many studies have investigated the perception of various processes of landscapes: wetland transformations (Sherren andVerstraten 2013, Byg et al 2017), growing human-wildlife conflicts (Storie and Bell 2017), the invasion of non-native species (Bardsley and Edwards-Jones 2007, García-Llorente et al 2008, Rai et al 2012, intensification (Carr andTait 1991, Junge et al 2011), or the abandonment, regrowth (Benjamin et al 2007, Bieling 2013, Ruskule et al 2013, Stelling et al 2017, and restoration of habitats (Hobbs 2016, Byg et al 2017.…”

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Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently?

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Molnár²,

Bede‐Fazekas³

et al. 2020

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Broader understanding of stakeholders' perceptions of landscape changes is needed to cope with global environmental challenges locally. In this study, farmers' and conservationists'-researchers' perceptions of landscape changes were compared by analyzing interviews conducted in the Danube-Tisza Interfluve region of Hungary through a combined quantitative and qualitative approach. Perceptions concerning the trends of changes (increasing or decreasing), as well as evaluations (positive and negative) of 40 different landscape elements were analyzed. The quantitative analysis consisted of landscape elements of different native and alien plant and animal species, natural habitats, and types of land use. For a qualitative analysis, one landscape element, the tussock sedge beds, a type of wetland habitat, was chosen. According to the quantitative analysis, the two groups held similar views on trends. However, their evaluations differed substantially. The most significant differences appeared between the two groups in cases where land use and biodiversity goals were in competition, e.g., abandonment and non-native plantations. Changes causing both decline of biodiversity and the fading of the cultural landscapes were seen similarly negatively by the two groups, e.g., disappearance of lakes, spread of invasive plants, expansion of wild boar. However, quantitative analysis also showed that conservationists-researchers had higher consensus, while farmers were much more diverse in their evaluations. Qualitative analysis explored the reasons for these differences. Although conservationists-researchers shared eco-centric values, farmers evaluated landscape changes heterogeneously based on individual constellations of economic interest, cultural values, and their sense of responsibility for nature. Our study, with the combined application of quantitative and qualitative analyses, provides new understandings of both between-group and within-group differences and similarities of farmers' and conservationists'-researchers' landscape change perceptions.

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People and sustainable land management: assessment of stakeholders knowledge of the nature of landuse/cover change in Abuja, Nigeria

Cited by 15 publications

References 46 publications

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Simulating Urban Land Expansion in the Context of Land Use Planning in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently?

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