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dc.contributor.authorBarasa, Bernard
dc.contributor.authorMwiru, Aron
dc.contributor.authorTuryabanawe, Loy
dc.contributor.authorMuhamud, Nabalegwa W.
dc.contributor.authorSsentongo, Benard
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-04T08:31:18Z
dc.date.available2022-03-04T08:31:18Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-31
dc.identifier.citationBernard, Barasa...et al (2020). The impact of refugee settlements on land use changes and vegetation degradation in West Nile Sub-region, Uganda.Taylor&Francis Online: Geocarto International.https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2019.1704073.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2019.1704073
dc.identifier.urihttps://kyuspace.kyu.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/20.500.12504/780
dc.description16-34 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractUganda continues to experience high-refugee population influx that is beyond the established settlement capacities. Little information is available on the present and future impacts of settling refugees and host-communities on landuse changes and vegetation degradation. This study used Sentinel-2 images (20m) of 2016-2019 and Dinamica Ego-software to determine the current and future spatial areal-extent of changes in 2022. Findings revealed a rarefied increase in areas under subsistence-farming, builtups and refugee-settlements while the losses were seen in savannah-grasslands, wetlands and woodlands. In 2021, the most significant increases in the land will be experienced in builtup-areas, settlements and commercial farming. The most degraded vegetation types were savannah-grassland, woodlands and tree-plantations. These were primarily attributed to unending activities of deforestation, bush-burning, high-refugee population, land-conflicts with host-communities and wetland reclamation. Thus, unless sustainable farming and energy-saving practices are promoted and adopted, the landscape is likely to remain not even with remnants of green-cover.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor&Francis Online: Geocarto Internationalen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol.37;
dc.subjectRefugeesen_US
dc.subjectLand use changesen_US
dc.subjectVegetation degradationen_US
dc.subjectDinamica Egoen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.titleThe impact of refugee settlements on land use changes and vegetation degradation in West Nile sub-region, Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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