7,603
Views
54
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Impact of land use/cover changes on lake ecosystem of Ethiopia central rift valley

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, & | (Reviewing editor)
Article: 1595876 | Received 31 Oct 2018, Accepted 04 Mar 2019, Published online: 30 Apr 2019

References

  • Alemayehu, T., Ayenew, T., & Kebede, S. (2006). Hydrogeochemical and lake level changes in the Ethiopian Rift. Journal of Hydrology, 316, 290–20. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.04.024
  • Amsalu, T., & Addisu, S. (2014). A review of wetland conservation and management policy in Ethiopian. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 4(9), 656.
  • Ariti, A. T., van Vliet, J., & Verburg, P. H. (2015). Land-use and land-cover changes in the central rift valley of Ethiopia: Assessment of perception and adaptation of stakeholders. Applied Geography, 65, 28–37. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.10.002
  • Ariti, A. T., van Vliet, J., & Verburg, P. H. (2018). Farmers’ participation in the development of land use policies for the central rift valley of Ethiopia. Land Use Policy, 71, 129–137. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.051
  • Assefa, E., & Bork, H.-R. (2016). Dynamics and driving forces of agricultural landscapes in Southern Ethiopia–A case study of the Chencha and Arbaminch areas. Journal of Land Use Science, 11, 278–293.
  • Ayenew, T. (2002). Recent changes in the level of Lake Abiyata, central main Ethiopian Rift. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 47, 493–503. doi:10.1080/02626660209492949
  • Ayenew, T. (2004). Environmental implications of changes in the levels of lakes in the Ethiopian Rift since 1970. Regional Environmental Change, 4, 192–204. doi:10.1007/s10113-004-0083-x
  • Ayenew, T. (2007). Water management problems in the Ethiopian rift: Challenges for development. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 48, 222–236. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2006.05.010
  • Ayenew, T. (2008). The distribution and hydrogeological controls of fluoride in the groundwater of central Ethiopian rift and adjacent highlands. Environmental Geology, 54, 1313–1324. doi:10.1007/s00254-007-0914-4
  • Belete, M. D., Diekkrüger, B., & Roehrig, J. (2015). Characterization of water level variability of the main ethiopian rift valley lakes. Hydrology, 3, 1. doi:10.3390/hydrology3010001
  • Berke, P., & Kaiser, E. J. (2006). Urban land use planning. University of Illinois Press, USA.
  • Bewket, W., & Abebe, S. (2013). Land-use and land-cover change and its environmental implications in a tropical highland watershed, Ethiopia. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 70, 126–139. doi:10.1080/00207233.2012.755765
  • Bryan, B. A. (2013). Incentives, land use, and ecosystem services: Synthesizing complex linkages. Environmental Science & Policy, 27, 124–134. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2012.12.010
  • Capistrano, D., Samper, C., Lee, M. J., & Raudsepp-Hearne, C. (2005). Ecosystems and human well-being: Multiscale assessments: Findings of the sub-global assessments working group of the millenium ecosystem assessment. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press.
  • Collier, P., & Dercon, S. (2014). African agriculture in 50 years: Smallholders in a rapidly changing world? World Development, 63, 92–101. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.001
  • Congalton, R. G. (1991). A review of assessing the accuracy of classifications of remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 37, 35–46. doi:10.1016/0034-4257(91)90048-B
  • Costanza, R., de Groot, R., Sutton, P., Van der Ploeg, S., Anderson, S. J., Kubiszewski, I., … Turner, R. K. (2014). Changes in the global value of ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change, 26, 152–158. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.002
  • CSA. (2013). Statistical Abstract: Ethiopian Central Statistical Authority. Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
  • Daniel, A. M., Daniel, K. W., & Muluneh, W. (2012). Detection and analysis of land-use and land-cover changes in the Midwest escarpment of the Ethiopian Rift Valley. Journal of Land Use Science, 7, 239–260. doi:10.1080/1747423X.2011.562556
  • Day, J. W., Jr, Arancibia, A. Y., Mitsch, W. J., Lara-Dominguez, A. L., Day, J. N., Ko, J.-Y., … Lomeli, D. Z. (2003). Using ecotechnology to address water quality and wetland habitat loss problems in the Mississippi basin: A hierarchical approach. Biotechnology Advances, 22, 135–159.
  • De Groot, R., Brander, L., Van Der Ploeg, S., Costanza, R., Bernard, F., Braat, L., … Hein, L. (2012). Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units. Ecosystem Services, 1, 50–61. doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.07.005
  • Demissie, F., Yeshitila, K., Kindu, M., & Schneider, T. (2017). Land use/Land cover changes and their causes in Libokemkem District of South Gonder, Ethiopia. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 8, 224–230. doi:10.1016/j.rsase.2017.10.001
  • Dimitriou, E., Karaouzas, I., Sarantakos, K., Zacharias, I., Bogdanos, K., & Diapoulis, A. (2008). Groundwater risk assessment at a heavily industrialised catchment and the associated impacts on a peri-urban wetland. Journal of Environmental Management, 88, 526–538. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.03.019
  • Eshetu, A. A. (2014). Forest resource management systems in Ethiopia: Historical perspective. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, 6, 121–131. doi:10.5897/IJBC2013.0645
  • Gashaw, T., Tulu, T., Argaw, M., & Worqlul, A. W. (2017). Evaluation and prediction of land use/land cover changes in the Andassa watershed, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Environmental Systems Research, 6(1). doi:10.1186/s40068‐017‐0094‐5
  • Gebreslassie, H. (2014). Land use-land cover dynamics of Huluka watershed, Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2, 25–33. doi:10.1016/S2095-6339(15)30055-1
  • Geheb, K., & Abebe, Y. D. (2003). Wetlands of Ethiopia: Proceedings of a seminar on the resources and status of Ethiopia’s wetlands. IUCN.
  • Geist, H., McConnell, W., Lambin, E. F., Moran, E., Alves, D., Rudel, T. (2006). Causes and trajectories of land-use/cover change. In E. F. Lambin & H. Geist (Eds.), Land-use and land-cover change. Global change - The IGBP series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Giri, C. P. (2012). Remote sensing of land use and land cover change: Principles and applications. London, New York: Taylor and Francis Group.
  • Girmay, G., Singh, B. R., & Dick, Y. (2010). Land-use changes and their impactson soil degradation and surface runoff of two catchmentsof northern Ethiopia. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B – Plant Soil Science, 60, 211–226.
  • Gong, J., Yang, J., & Tang, W. (2015). Spatially explicit landscape-level ecological risks induced by land use and land cover change in a national ecologically representative region in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12, 14192–14215. doi:10.3390/ijerph121114192
  • Haslam, S. M. (2004). Understanding wetlands: Fen, bog, and marsh. London and New york: CRC Press, Taylor and Francic Group.
  • Hassan, A. A. M. (2013). Implementation of land-use-cover change analysis into megacity management response by using the DPSIR model. Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Aachener Geographische Arbeiten - 50 / 2013 S. 97 - 113.
  • Hatch, N., & Wells, L. (2012). Multilevel environmental governance-the case of Ethiopian floriculture. Environmental Policy Update 2012: Development Strategies and Environmental Policy in East Africa.
  • Hengsdijk, H., & Jansen, H. (2006a). Agricultural development in the central Ethiopian rift valley: A desk-study on water-related issues and knowledge to support a policy dialogue. Plant Research International BV, Wageningen, 22, 28–36.
  • Hengsdijk, H., & Jansen, H. (2006b). Ecosystems for water, food and economic development in the Ethiopian central rift valley (BO-10-006-22). Report of inception mission to Ethiopia and Workplan.
  • Houghton, R. A., House, J. I., Pongratz, J., Van Der Werf, G. R., DeFries, R. S., Hansen, M. C., … Ramankutty, N. (2012). Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Biogeosciences, 9, 5125–5142. doi:10.5194/bg-9-5125-2012
  • IPCC. (2013). Climate change 2013: The physical science basis. In T. F. Stocker, D. Qin, G. -K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S. K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P. M. Midgley (Eds.), Contribution of working group I to the fifth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (p. 1535). Cambridge and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jansen, H., Hengsdijk, H., Legesse, D., Ayenew, T., Petra, S., & Petra, H. (2007). Land and water resources assessment in the Ethiopian central rift valley project: Ecosystems for water, food and economic development in the Ethiopian rift valley. Alteraw Wageningen, The Netherlands. Retrieved from http://www.alterra.wur.nl/
  • Kabba, V. T. S., & Li, J. (2011). Analysis of land use and land cover changes, and their ecological implications in Wuhan, China. Journal of Geography and Geology, 3, 104. doi:10.5539/jgg.v3n1p104
  • Kindu, M., Schneider, T., Teketay, D., & Knoke, T. (2015). Drivers of land use/land cover changes in Munessa-Shashemene landscape of the south-central highlands of Ethiopia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 187, 452. doi:10.1007/s10661-015-4671-7
  • Lambin, E. F., & Geist, H. J. (2008). Land-use and land-cover change: Local processes and global impacts. Springer Science & Business Media, Germany.
  • Lambin, E. F., Geist, H. J., & Lepers, E. (2003). Dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in tropical regions. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 28, 205–241. doi:10.1146/annurev.energy.28.050302.105459
  • Lambin, E. F., Rounsevell, M., & Geist, H. (2000). Are agricultural land-use models able to predict changes in land-use intensity?. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 82, 321–331. doi:10.1016/S0167-8809(00)00235-8
  • Lasanta, T., González-Hidalgo, J. C., Vicente-Serrano, S. M., & Sferi, E. (2006). Using landscape ecology to evaluate an alternative management scenario in abandoned Mediterranean mountain areas. Landscape and Urban Planning, 78, 101–114. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.06.003
  • Legesse, D., & Ayenew, T. (2006). Effect of improper water and land resource utilization on the central Main Ethiopian Rift lakes. Quaternary International, 148, 8–18. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2005.11.003
  • Lillesand, T., Kiefer, R. W., & Chipman, J. (2014). Remote sensing and image interpretation (6th ed.). John Wiley & Sons Inc., University of Widconsin-Madison.
  • Ma, M. E. A. (2005). Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Framework For Assessment. Washington: Island Press.
  • Meshesha, D. T., Tsunekawa, A., & Tsubo, M. (2012). Continuing land degradation: Cause–Effect in Ethiopia’s central rift valley. Land Degradation & Development, 23, 130–143. doi:10.1002/ldr.1061
  • Meshesha, T. W., Tripathi, S., & Khare, D. (2016). Analyses of land use and land cover change dynamics using GIS and remote sensing during 1984 and 2015 in the Beressa Watershed Northern Central Highland of Ethiopia. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2, 168. doi:10.1007/s40808-016-0233-4
  • Miheretu, B. A., & Assefa, A. Y. (2017). Determinants of farmers’ adoption of land management practices in Gelana sub‐watershed of northern highlands of Ethiopia. Ecological Processes, 6(19). doi:10.1186/s13717‐017‐0085‐5
  • Mitsch, W. J., & Gosselink, J. G. (2000). The value of wetlands: Importance of scale and landscape setting. Ecological Economics, 35, 25–33. doi:10.1016/S0921-8009(00)00165-8
  • Moges, D. M., & Bhat, H. G. (2018). An insight into land use and land cover changes and their impacts in Rib watershed, north‐western highland Ethiopia. Land Degradation and Development, 29, 3317–3330. doi:10.1002/ldr.3091
  • Molla, M. B. (2015). Land use/land cover dynamics in the central rift valley region of Ethiopia: Case of Arsi Negele District. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 10, 434–449. doi:10.5897/AJAR2014.8728
  • Mondal, P. P., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Research progress on changes in land use and land cover in the western Himalayas (India) and effects on ecosystem services. Sustainability, 10, 4504. doi:10.3390/su10124504
  • MoWR. (2010). Rift valley lakes basin integrated resources development plan study project. Lake Hawassa Sub-Basin Integrated Watershed Management Feasibility Study. Main Report, 1.
  • Muzein, B. S. (2006). Remote sensing & GIS for land cover/land use change detection and analysis in the semi-natural ecosystems and agriculture landscapes of the Central Ethiopian Rift Valley, Doctral desertation, Technische Universität Dresden Fakultät Forst- Geo- und Hydrowissenschaften Institut für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung, Dresden, Germany .
  • National Research Council, N. (2014). Advancing land change modeling: Opportunities and research requirements. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-28833-0.
  • Olaka, L. A., Odada, E. O., Trauth, M. H., & Olago, D. O. (2010). The sensitivity of East African rift lakes to climate fluctuations. Journal of Paleolimnology, 44, 629–644. doi:10.1007/s10933-010-9442-4
  • Pandey, V. P., & Shrestha, S. (2016). Chapter 2 - DPSIR framework for evaluating groundwater environment. In S. Shrestha, V. P. Pandey, B. R. Shivakoti, & S. Thatikonda (Eds.), Groundwater environment in Asian cities: Concepts, Methods and Case Studies, 2016 (pp. 17–37). Butterworth-Heinemann an imprint of Elsevire (UK and USA). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803166-7.00002-7
  • Peng, J., Xu, Y., Cai, Y., & Xiao, H. (2011). The role of policies in land use/cover change since the 1970s in ecologically fragile karst areas of Southwest China: A case study on the Maotiaohe watershed. Environmental Science & Policy, 14, 408–418. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2011.03.009
  • Phalan, B., Onial, M., Balmford, A., & Green, R. E. (2011). Reconciling food production and biodiversity conservation: Land sharing and land sparing compared. Science, 333, 1289–1291. doi:10.1126/science.1208742
  • Pielke, R. A., Pitman, A., Niyogi, D., Mahmood, R., McAlpine, C., Hossain, F., … Fall, S. (2011). Land use/land cover changes and climate: Modeling analysis and observational evidence. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2, 828–850.
  • Raventós Vilalta, E. (2010). Water resources management in the central rift valley in Ethiopia. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, MSc Thesis in Civil Engineering, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Rawat, J., & Kumar, M. (2015). Monitoring land use/cover change using remote sensing and GIS techniques: A case study of Hawalbagh block, district Almora, Uttarakhand, India. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science, 18, 77–84. doi:10.1016/j.ejrs.2015.02.002
  • Ridgeley, R., Allnutt, T., Brooks, T., NcNicol, D., Mehlman, D., Young, B., & Zook, J. (2012). BirdLife International. 2012. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, Version, 5. Compiled by NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Retrieved from http://www.natureserve.org
  • Riebsame, W. E., Meyer, W. B., & Turner, B. (1994). Modeling land use and cover as part of global environmental change. Climatic Change, 28, 45–64. doi:10.1007/BF01094100
  • Rogan, J., & Chen, D. (2004). Remote sensing technology for mapping and monitoring land-cover and land-use change. Progress in Planning, 61, 301–325. doi:10.1016/S0305-9006(03)00066-7
  • Seyoum, W. M., Milewski, A. M., & Durham, M. C. (2015). Understanding the relative impacts of natural processes and human activities on the hydrology of the central rift valley lakes, East Africa. Hydrological Processes, 29, 4312–4324. doi:10.1002/hyp.10490
  • Tadesse, L., Suryabhagavan, K. V., Sridhar, G., & Legesse, G. (2017). Land use and land cover changes and Soil erosion in Yezat Watershed, North Western Ethiopia. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 5, 85–94. doi:10.1016/j.iswcr.2017.05.004
  • Tefera, B., Ayele, G., Atnafe, Y., Jabbar, M. A., & Dubale, P. (2002). Nature and causes of land degradation in the Oromiya Region: A review. Socio-economics and Policy Research Working Paper 36ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya, 82 pp.
  • Tefera, M. (2011). Wildlife in Ethiopia: Endemic large mammals. World Journal of Zoology, 6, 108–116.
  • Teka, K., Van Rompaey, A., & Poesen, J. (2013). Assessing the role of policies on land use change and agricultural development since 1960s in northern Ethiopia. Land Use Policy, 30, 944–951. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.07.005
  • Teklemariam, D., Lanckriet, S., Azadi, H., Asfaha, T. G., Haile, M., Witlox, F., & Nyssen, J. (2017a). Effects of land deals on peak discharge and sediment transport in the catchments around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Land Degradation & Development, 28, 1852–1861. doi:10.1002/ldr.2654
  • Tolessa, T., Senbeta, F., & Kidane, M. (2017). The impact of land use/land cover change on ecosystem services in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Ecosystem Services, 23, 47–54. doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.11.010
  • Vargas Amelin, E. (2016). Effects of climate change in Mediterranean water resources and their economic implications. Doctoral dissertation, UNED/Vrije Universiteit Brussel, pp. 257.
  • Yohannes, H., Mohammed, A., & Elias, E. (2017). Land use/land cover dynamics and its impact on biodiversity resources in the Abijata Shalla National Park, central rift valley Lakes Region, Ethiopia. Environmental Science: An Indian Journal, 13, 152.
  • Zeray, L., Roehrig, J., & Chekol, D. A. (2006). Climate change impact on Lake Ziway watershed water availability, Ethiopia, Catchment and Lake research. FWU Water Resources Publications, vol. 6, 18-23. ISSN:1613-1045.