The impact of refugee settlements on land use changes and vegetation degradation in West Nile Sub-region, Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorBarasa, Bernard
dc.contributor.authorMwiru, Aron
dc.contributor.authorTuryabanawe, Loy
dc.contributor.authorNabalegwa W., Muhamud
dc.contributor.authorSsentongo, Benard
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-04T12:11:13Z
dc.date.available2022-12-04T12:11:13Z
dc.date.issued2020
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 builtupareas, settlements and commercial farming. The most degraded vegetation types were savannah-grassland, woodlands and treeplantations. 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.identifier.citationBarasa Bernard , Mwiru Aron , Turyabanawe Loy , Nabalegwa W. Muhamud & Ssentongo Benard (2020): The impact of refugee settlements on land use changes and vegetation degradation in West Nile Sub-region, Uganda, Geocarto International, DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2019.1704073en_US
dc.identifier.other10.1080/10106049.2019.1704073
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/5803
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherGeocarto Internationalen_US
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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