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Peri Urban land Use Changes and their Effects on Forest Ecosystem Services

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Rapid land use changes taking place in peri urban settlements in cities of developing world have been jeopardizing the ecosystem services[1][2] . Forests which are the major sources of provisioning ecosystems have been reported to decrease at a very rapid rate over the three decades in Tanzania since the introduction of trade liberalization policies[3]. Researches suggest that further deforestation was fueled by rural-urban migration and that the policies had a negative impact on rural development which was very muchbased on agriculture and therefore many youths had to move to urban areas for survival and thereby exacerbated rapid peri urban development and therefore rapid land use changes[4][5][6]. Peri urban areas which were the foci of land development experienced rapid population growth due to the fact that the land there is cheap and affordable to many migrants as compared to land in the inner city centre. This rapid population influx which has driven rapid land use changes has been said to cause rapid decrease of the forests and therefore severely affecting ecosystem services[7]. Ecosystem services in peri urban settlements include forests and their related species, fruits, wild beats and water services mainly provided by ecosystem services[8][9][10][11]. However, water productivity as one of the ecosystems has been facing the problem of scarcity due to among others increasing human population and rapid peri urban land use changes in the sub Saharan Africa[12]. Managing peri urban land use changes has also been another challenge due to poor land use development control and population explosion[13].

 
Stanslaus Butungo
 
Occupation: Researcher

Websites
Department: Rural Development
Personal: www.slu.se
Project: SLU Wikipedia project

About me

I am a Ph.D. student at SLU from Ardhi University Tanzania

Research area

Land Management


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  5. ^ Briggs, John; Mwamfupe, Davis (1999-01-01). "The changing nature of the peri‐urban zone in Africa: Evidence from Dar‐es‐Salaam, Tanzania". Scottish Geographical Journal. 115 (4): 269–282. doi:10.1080/00369229918737070. ISSN 1470-2541.
  6. ^ McGregor, Duncan F. M.; Simon, David; Thompson, Donald A. (2006-01-01). The Peri-urban Interface: Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use. Routledge. ISBN 9781844071883.
  7. ^ Kashaigili, Japhet J.; Mdemu, Makarius V.; Nduganda, Augustino R.; Mbilinyi, Boniface P. (2013-03-12). "Integrated Assessment of Forest Cover Change and Above-Ground Carbon Stock in Pugu and Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserves, Tanzania". Advances in Remote Sensing. 02 (01): 1–9. doi:10.4236/ars.2013.21001.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  8. ^ Worm, Boris; Barbier, Edward B.; Beaumont, Nicola; Duffy, J. Emmett; Folke, Carl; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Jackson, Jeremy B. C.; Lotze, Heike K.; Micheli, Fiorenza (2006-11-03). "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services". Science. 314 (5800): 787–790. doi:10.1126/science.1132294. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17082450.
  9. ^ Maes, Joachim; Egoh, Benis; Willemen, Louise; Liquete, Camino; Vihervaara, Petteri; Schägner, Jan Philipp; Grizzetti, Bruna; Drakou, Evangelia G.; Notte, Alessandra La (2012-07-01). "Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union". Ecosystem Services. 1 (1): 31–39. doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.06.004.
  10. ^ Crossman, Neville D.; Burkhard, Benjamin; Nedkov, Stoyan; Willemen, Louise; Petz, Katalin; Palomo, Ignacio; Drakou, Evangelia G.; Martín-Lopez, Berta; McPhearson, Timon (2013-06-01). "A blueprint for mapping and modelling ecosystem services". Ecosystem Services. Special Issue on Mapping and Modelling Ecosystem Services. 4: 4–14. doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.02.001.
  11. ^ Balvanera, Patricia; Pfisterer, Andrea B.; Buchmann, Nina; He, Jing-Shen; Nakashizuka, Tohru; Raffaelli, David; Schmid, Bernhard (2006-10-01). "Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services". Ecology Letters. 9 (10): 1146–1156. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00963.x. ISSN 1461-0248.
  12. ^ Mdemu, M. V.; Rodgers, C.; Vlek, P. L. G.; Borgadi, J. J. (2009-01-01). "Water productivity (WP) in reservoir irrigated schemes in the upper east region (UER) of Ghana". Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C. Integrated Water Resources Assessment, with Special Focus on Developing Countries. 34 (4–5): 324–328. doi:10.1016/j.pce.2008.08.006.
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