Urban land use dynamics, the nexus between land use pattern and its challenges: The case of Hawassa city, Southern Ethiopia

Admasu, Tesfaye Gebeyehu

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.01.022

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“…Moreover, the proportion of infilling and leapfrogging development in Hawassa city was small over space and times. This might be due to the reason that Hawassa was established as a planned city in the early 1950s [50].…”

Section: Urban Landscape Change Patterns and Associated Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thirdly, the findings from the different studies [10,15,47,50] suggested that rapid urban expansion and weaknesses in planning, monitoring, and managing urban growth are significant causes for loss of natural resources [7], and promote the dispersed urban growth types. In this study lacks proper implementation of the land use plan and monitoring in Addis Ababa and Adama cities, especially during the first and the third study periods.…”

Section: Testing the Phases Of Diffusion And Coalescence In Urban Expmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sinha et al [49] quantified the urban growth of Adama using Landsat images from 1984 to 2015 and reported that the built-up area of the city increased by 293%. While some other previous studies have concentrated on the land use pattern change in response to urban expansion [15,47,50], most of the conducted researches focused on urban expansion and its impacts on a single city. In particular, a comprehensive comparative analysis of the differences in urban area change characteristics, impacts of policies, and demographic drivers across Ethiopia's major cities have not been investigated.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Expansion in Ethiopia from 1987 to 2017: Characteristics, Spatial Patterns, and Driving Forces

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Rapid urban growth in major cities of a country poses challenges for sustainable development. Particularly in Africa, the process of rapid urbanization is little understood and research is mostly limited to single cities. Thus, this study provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the growth and spatial patterns of urban development in the three major cities of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, Adama, and Hawassa) from 1987 to 2017. Also, the applicability of diffusion and coalescence theory on the evolution of these cities has been tested. Remote sensing and GIS technologies were combined with spatial metrics and morphological analysis was employed to undertake this study. The result revealed that all the studied cities experienced accelerated growth in the urbanized areas, but the cities with a larger initial urbanized size were associated with lower expansion rates. Differences in extent and direction of expansion in each city were mostly related to physical features, urban master plans, and policies, with an increase in the irregularity and dispersion of urban growth, representing strong evidence of urban sprawl. The spatiotemporal analysis confirmed that the urbanization processes of Addis Ababa and Adama were consistent and Hawassa city diverged from expectations based on diffusion and coalescence theory. In general, large cities with strong economic growth in a country fail to effectively control the scattered nature of urban growth, thus requiring aggressive policy intervention. The approach used in this study permits a deeper exploration of urban development patterns and the identification of priority areas for effective urban planning and management.

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Section: Urban Landscape Change Patterns and Associated Driversmentioning

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Section: Testing the Phases Of Diffusion And Coalescence In Urban Expmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…The proximity to Hawassa town may actually represent a threat for some farmers. Indeed, with an increasing cost of land in Hawassa town and an on-going plan to transform Tula into Hawassa's sub-city, middle men are approaching farmers to convince them to sell all or part of their land with the intend of purchasing it at an extremely low price compared to the potential (high) value the land would fetch as urban ground (Gebeyehu Admasu, 2015). This is an uncontrolled land market even though land in Ethiopia is state-owned and not meant to be traded; however, improvements such as housing, corrals, trees and land titles can be traded.…”

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Drivers, farmers’ responses and landscape consequences of smallholder farming systems changes in southern Ethiopia

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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Ethiopia is now the second most populated country in Africa with more than 100 million people and an annual population growth rate of 3%. Here, we assess how the on-going expansion of arable land and urban areas is affecting the availability of common resources, such as forest and grazing land, and the availability of biomass for food, feed, and energy. Taking the Hawassa area in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia as a study case, this study aims at analysing the drivers of change of farming systems, assessing farmers' responses to these drivers and appreciating the consequences for the agricultural landscapes' composition. We found that (i) national-level policies, climate and soil fertility changes, population increase, and urban expansion were major drivers of farming systems change in the Hawassa area, (ii) forests and grasslands have been progressively replaced by cropland and urban areas, and (iii) these changes resulted in fragmentation and diversification of local agricultural landscapes with potential consequences for ecosystem service provision. Farmers responded with the following three main livelihood strategies: consolidation, diversification and specialization. These changes led to more diverse and fragmented agricultural landscapes. This research contributes to the ongoing debate about the viability of small farms.

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“…The proximity to Hawassa town may actually represent a threat for some farmers. Indeed, with an increasing cost of land in Hawassa town and an on-going plan to transform Tula into Hawassa' s sub-city, middle men are approaching farmers to convince them to sell all or part of their land with the intend of purchasing it at an extremely low price compared to the potential (high) value the land would fetch as urban ground (Gebeyehu Admasu, 2015). This is an uncontrolled land market even though land in Ethiopia is state-owned and not meant to be traded.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Urban land use dynamics, the nexus between land use pattern and its challenges: The case of Hawassa city, Southern Ethiopia

Cited by 41 publications

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Urban Expansion in Ethiopia from 1987 to 2017: Characteristics, Spatial Patterns, and Driving Forces

Urban Expansion in Ethiopia from 1987 to 2017: Characteristics, Spatial Patterns, and Driving Forces

Drivers, farmers’ responses and landscape consequences of smallholder farming systems changes in southern Ethiopia

Hide and seek: management and landscape factors affecting maize stemborers Busseola fusca (Fuller) infestation levels in Ethiopia

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