Mapping and quantifying perceptions of environmental change in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: Large-scale land acquisitions are a critical driver of global socio-environmental change, in particular in the Global South. This study aims to investigate drivers, impacts and feedbacks of environmental change in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania, a region in rapid societal and environmental transformation. We use land cover classifications to map and quantify land cover changes from 1990 to 2016, and compare these with local perceptions of change from fieldwork conducted in 2015 and 2016. The land change detection clearly shows farmland expansion over the wetlands, which is in line with local perceptions, but fails to detect changes in forest cover, which contradicts local perceptions that proclaim rapid deforestation over the past decade. In order to move towards more inclusive sustainable dev

SUBMITTER: Johansson EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6965049 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature