Threats of Changes in Land-Use and Drivers on Owabi and Barekese Watershed Forests in Ghana

Ayesu, Samuel; Barnes, Victor Rex; Agbenyega, Olivia

doi:10.4018/ijagr.2021070101

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“…Land-use change is affected by both natural and human activities, in which human activities have an increasing impact on land-use change [43][44][45], including population [43][44][45], policy [43,44,46], social economy [43,45] and other factors [46]. (1) Population is the most dynamic driving factor of land-use change.…”

Section: Analysis On Driving Factors Of Land-use Changementioning

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Land Use/Cover Change and Its Relationship with Regional Development in Xixian New Area, China

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There is a close relationship between land use/cover change and regional development in new urban areas. In this paper, based on the land-use data before (2010, 2013) and after (2015, 2018) the establishment of Xixian New Area and the economic development data of the corresponding period, with the help of indexes such as the land use transfer matrix, relative change rate/net change rate and the composite index of land use degree, the temporal and spatial differences of land-use change and land use degree in the ten years before and after the establishment of Xixian New Area were analyzed, and the driving factors of land-use change and their relationship with the level of social and economic development were discussed. The results indicate that cultivated land and construction land are the main land-use types in Xixian New Area in the whole studying period. From 2010 to 2018, the area of cultivated land and forest land in the region decreased over time, but the construction land area continuously increased dramatically (increased by 36.5% from 2010 to 2018) and the land-use change corresponds basically to the construction and development process of the New Area. In the spatial transfer of land use, the transformation of cultivated land to construction land was the most evident, and the urbanization construction in the New Area occupied the most cultivated land. The composite index of land use degree in the New Area was generally high and increased with time. Geographical location and policy guidance are the main reasons for the spatial difference of land use degree. The land use benefits in the New Area increased significantly, and the land use degree was positively correlated with the level of regional, social and economic development. The main driving factor of land-use change was human activities guided by policy.

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Section: Analysis On Driving Factors Of Land-use Changementioning

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Land Use/Cover Change and Its Relationship with Regional Development in Xixian New Area, China

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“…The continues and uncontrolled urbanization have serious effects water supply systems as forests which protect rivers and streams (source of water to the Barekesses and Owabi Dams) are polluted or dried up. There are several studies that supports this assertion in the study area (Antwi-Agyei et al, 2019;Ayesu et al, 2021;Forkuo et al, 2021).…”

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Assessment of Past and Future Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics of the Old Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and Atwima Nwabiagya Municipal Area, Ghana

Koranteng¹,

Frimpong²,

Adu-Poku³

et al. 2023

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Ghana like all countries in Sub-Saharan region of Africa have long been undergoing intense land use land cover changes (LULCC) which have given rise to extensive forest loss (deforestation and degradation), loss of arable land and land degradation. This study assessed the past LULCC in the Atwima Nwabiagya which contains the Barekese and Owabi Headworks) and the old Kumasi Local Assemblies' areas in Ghana and projected the scenario in 2040 for business-as-usual (BAU). The synergies of satellite imagery of 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020 were classified with an overall accuracy of 90%. Markov Cellular-Automata method was used to forecast the future LULC pattern after detecting main driving forces of LULCC. The findings showed an extensive increase in built up areas from 11% in 1990 to 39% in 2020 owing largely to 23% decrease in forest cover and 6% decrease in agricultural lands within the past 30 years . The projected LULC under the BAU scenario for 2040 showed built-up surge from 39% to 45% indicating additional forest loss from 43% in 2020 to 40% and decreasing agricultural land from 17% to 14%. The main driver for the LULCC is clearly anthropogenic driven as the human population in the study area keeps rising every censual year. This study exemplifies the fast-tracked forest loss, loss of arable land and challenges on ecosystem sustainability of the Barekese-Owabi-Kumasi landscape. The current and projected maps necessitate the apt implementation of suitable inter-

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Evaluating the impact of land use and land cover changes on forest ecosystem service values using landsat dataset in the Atwima Nwabiagya North, Ghana

Baidoo,

Obeng

2023

Heliyon

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Threats of Changes in Land-Use and Drivers on Owabi and Barekese Watershed Forests in Ghana

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Land Use/Cover Change and Its Relationship with Regional Development in Xixian New Area, China

Land Use/Cover Change and Its Relationship with Regional Development in Xixian New Area, China

Assessment of Past and Future Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics of the Old Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and Atwima Nwabiagya Municipal Area, Ghana

Evaluating the impact of land use and land cover changes on forest ecosystem service values using landsat dataset in the Atwima Nwabiagya North, Ghana

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