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Title: | Urban sprawl and its impacts on land use change in Central Ethiopia | Authors: | Dadi, Diriba AZADI, Hossein Senbeta, Feyera Abebe, Ketema Taheri, Fatemeh Stellmacher, Till |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG | Source: | URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING, 16, p. 132-141 | Abstract: | This study aimed to understand the major drivers of urban sprawl and its impacts on land use conversion in the pen-urban kebeles of the Dukem town, Central Ethiopia. GIS software was used to create status and location maps of industries out of the GPS data. The results from qualitative data obtained from interviews and focus group discussions showed that more land was used beyond the total size of land allocated initially planned for. Furthermore, urban sprawl has also caused an extensive agricultural land conversion (ALC) that has seriously affected agricultural production. Industrialization, residential expansion and infrastructure development were identified as the leading drivers of ALC that negatively affects the size of cultivated land and food crop production in the hinterlands. In contrast with government policies and community expectations, most converted lands had a very low development status and some of them were underdeveloped and demonstrated leapfrog sprawling. | Notes: | [Dadi, Diriba; Abebe, Ketema] Univ Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Inst Architecture Bldg Construct & City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [Azadi, Hossein] Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Hasselt, Belgium. [Azadi, Hossein] Univ Liege, Econ & Rural Dev, B-4000 Liege, Belgium. [Azadi, Hossein] Univ Ghent, Dept Geog, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. [Senbeta, Feyera] Univ Addis Ababa, Ctr Environm & Dev, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [Taheri, Fatemeh] Khuzestan Ramin Agr & Nat Resources Univ, Mollasani, Khuzestan, Iran. [Stellmacher, Till] Univ Bonn, Ctr Dev Res ZEF, Bonn, Germany. | Keywords: | environmental planning; industrialization; land use management; sustainable land use; urbanization;Environmental planning; Industrialization; Land use management; Sustainable land use; Urbanization | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/22723 | ISSN: | 1618-8667 | e-ISSN: | 1610-8167 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.ufug.2016.02.005 | ISI #: | 000384913200015 | Rights: | (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2017 |
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