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ABSTRACT
Intensity Analysis (IA) of land use and land cover change (LULCC) is important to support policy and practice. We applied IA to analyse LULCC in Sironko catchment, Uganda. Results show that agricultural land, forest, and wetland reduced by 8%; 32%; and 20% between 1986-2000. Between 2000-2016, forest, wetland, and built-up areas increased by 84%, 5%, and 57%. Active gainers between 1986-2000 were bare land, built-up areas, grassland and woodland. Between 2000-2016, bare lands and woodlands were the active losers. Transition to agricultural land in both intervals suggests that subsistence agriculture is fuelling deforestation and wetland encroachment in the region.
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Justine Kilama Luwa
Justine Kilama Luwa, holds a PhD in Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences of Makerere University, Uganda; MSc in Water Resources and Livelihoods Security (Major: Water and Environmental Studies) of Linkoping University, Sweden; and BSc Industrial Chemistry of Makerere University, Uganda. He has over 12 years’ experience of lecturing in public university (Gulu University) has special research/work interest in addressing global environmental changes including but not limited to climate change, land use change, water quantity and quality challenges, community engagement for sustainable natural resources utilization and management, biodiversity conservation among others. Luwa has coauthored three peer-reviewed journal articles.
Jackson Gilbert Mwanjalolo Majaliwa
Jackson Gilbert Mwanjalolo Majaliwa (Congolese) holds a Licence (5 years) in Applied Physics from the Institut Superieur Pedagogue de Bukavu (ISP-Bukavu), a Master’s in Environmental Sciences, and Ph.D. in Soil and water management from Makerere University. He worked as an Associate Professor (2008-218) and Professor at Makerere University (2018-2020) at the Department of Geography, Geo-informatics, and climate sciences. He has been involved in several regional and international research initiatives. He has co-published more than 190 peer-reviewed articles in applied physics, ecology, remote sensing and GIS, hydrology, and climate science. He joined RUFRUM in 2021 and is currently the Manager of the Research, Innovation for Development at RFORUM Secretariat.
Yazihdi Bamutaze
Yazihdi Bamutaze (Ugandan): Associate Professor in Geography and Geo-Information Sciences. He holds a PhD (Geography), Master of Science in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Master in Geography and Bachelor of Arts in Geography. He has 20 years’ experience in research, teaching, mentorship and scientific leadership at Makerere University. He teaches and conducts research in Geomorphology, Hazard and Disaster Science, Socio-Ecological Responses to Changing Environment and Geo-Information Science. He has carried out research and been involved in capacity development and collaborative projects. He is an Executive Member of International Geographical Union (IGU)-African Chapter, International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE), and African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE); American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the Uganda Association of Geographers. He is currently the Head of GGCS Department. He has over 22 publications.
Daniel Wasswa
Dr. Daniel Waiswa is a dedicated and hardworking J. W. Fulbright Fellow with a Ph.D. in Forest Biometrics and Geomatics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA, and a Master of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Makerere University. He has over time engaged in teaching, research and community outreach in the areas of Forest Resource Development, Assessment and Management utilising among others Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing skills in contributing to sustainable environmental management. He has worked with various stakeholders in government, private and civil society on issues of environmental management. He is also passionate about biodiversity conservation. He is also an astute researcher and has published a number of articles in high impact, peer reviewed international Journals.
Petter Pilesjö
Petter Pilesjö is a Professor in Physical Geography and Geographical Information Science in Lund University, Sweden. He is specialized in hydrological and topographical modelling, as well as soil surface processing.
Bagula Espoir
Bagula Espoir is an expert in Geoinformatics, Remote sensing, Modelling of biophysical process and Land Resource Management with ten years of experience. He is a lecturer of Geoinformatics and Land resource management at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Université Evangelique en Afrique. Mukengere is teaching and doing research in the field Applied soil physics, land resource management; Hydrology and Water Resources and has over 30 publications in peer reviewed journals.