DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.05.001
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84878437489
论文题名: Factors controlling patterns of deforestation in moist evergreen Afromontane forests of Southwest Ethiopia
作者: Getahun K. ; Van Rompaey A. ; Van Turnhout P. ; Poesen J.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2013
卷: 304 起始页码: 171
结束页码: 181
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Afromontane
; Coffee
; Deforestation
; Land use change
; Logistic regression
; Southwest Ethiopia
Scopus关键词: Afromontane
; Deforestation patterns
; Ethiopia
; Evergreen afromontane forests
; Land-use change
; Logistic regressions
; Market integration
; Socio-economic factor
; Coffee
; Commerce
; Logistics
; Deforestation
; aerial photography
; coffee
; deforestation
; environmental factor
; evergreen forest
; land use change
; market system
; montane forest
; nature-society relations
; satellite imagery
; socioeconomic status
; Air Craft
; Coffee
; Commerce
; Deforestation
; Ethiopia
; Land Use
; Photography
; Satellites
; Ethiopia
; Jimma
; Oromia
英文摘要: This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of deforestation processes of moist evergreen Afromontane forests by disentangling the role of biophysical and socio-economic factors. Hitherto deforestation patterns between 1957 and 2007 were mapped for 9 villages in the Jimma zone of the Oromia regional state in Southwest Ethiopia on the basis of aerial photographs and high- resolution satellite images. The results show a 19% decline in forest cover since 1957. A spatial analysis of the observed deforestation patterns showed that the way of living and the accessibility to markets has controlled to a large extent the spatial pattern of deforestation during the past 50. years. Forest was lost mainly at remote locations away from the main roads where market integration is difficult. Farmers in these locations are relatively poor and self-subsistent which implies that population increase automatically led to new deforestation. Places very nearby to market places were spared from deforestation because of the presence of off-farm jobs in the towns. Significantly less deforestation was observed in areas that are suitable for the growth of shaded coffee. The areas above 2000. m.a.s.l that are not suited for shaded coffee are typically inhabited by relatively poor households who are living far from roadsides and thus are less integrated to the surrounding major markets. As a result, they depend more on subsistence farming causing more deforestation than other households. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/66470
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作者单位: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijinenlaan 200E, Leuven 3001, Belgium; Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Jimma University, P.O. Box 378, Jimma, Ethiopia
Recommended Citation:
Getahun K.,Van Rompaey A.,Van Turnhout P.,et al. Factors controlling patterns of deforestation in moist evergreen Afromontane forests of Southwest Ethiopia[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2013-01-01,304