Orekan, Vincent Oladokoun Agnila: Implementation of the local land-use and land-cover change model CLUE-s for Central Benin by using socio-economic and remote sensing data. - Bonn, 2007. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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author = {{Vincent Oladokoun Agnila Orekan}},
title = {Implementation of the local land-use and land-cover change model CLUE-s for Central Benin by using socio-economic and remote sensing data},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2007,
note = {Within the last decades wide areas in West Africa are subjected to serious land-use and land-cover changes (LUCC). The detection of the changes, the understanding of the underlying processes as well as modeling of scenarios for future development is a precondition for the set up of sustainable land-use planning schemes. In this thesis the implementation of the local LUCC model CLUE-s is demonstrated for a savanna environment in central Benin. The study was performed in the framework of the Integrated approach to the efficient management of scarce water resources in West Africa (IMPETUS) project. The study area has a size of around 900 km². The population density is quite low (11 persons/km²) but it is subjected to migration and the population growth is very high (up to 13 % for some villages). Land-use is mainly slash-and-burn agriculture. Uncontrolled forest logging and practice of vegetation fires are frequent.
The degree of LUCC was derived from multitemporal LANDSAT images. Between 1991 and 2000 deforestation of 8 % was observed; 20% of Woodland savanna and 5 % of Shrub savanna had been transformed respectively into Shrub savanna and farmland.
In order to explain and to model present and future LUCC, the underlying processes have been analysed with geostatistics and through the integration of socio-economic factors. Due to the insufficient availability of official data, I undertook an own survey, and 188 households had been questioned. It turned out that the socalled drivers to describe the relevant land-use changes can be divided in two broad categories: proximate causes (e.g. accessibility, agriculture expansion) and underlying causes (demographic factors and socio-economic conditions).
To implement the spatial explicit statistic-dynamic CLUE-s model, different input parameters were used: the results from the socio-economic analyses as well as datasets describing the geographical situation like land-use and land-cover and distances (e.g. distance to settlements). The calibration of the model was performed using historical data describing the land-use and land-cover patterns between 1991 and 2000.
Different scenarios for future development of the boundary conditions were defined according to the findings of the IMPETUS project. The outcome of the base line scenario (“business as usual”) predicts that there will be some forests left in 2025 while the scenario (“environmental damage”) assuming an increase of 6 % a year of agricultural area results in nearly complete deforestation of the area in 2020. The resulting spatial pattern of the predicted changes shows strong changes along the main road Oubérou- Kikélé, where most of the immigrant farmers settle. This tendency will be maintained as long as the population increases. The spatial locations of areas subjected to strong deforestation are clearly indicated.
The validation process based on multiple resolution technique shows the ability of the CLUE-s model to predict the land-use changes at the local level. However further results can be achieved with improved datasets (e.g. detailed crops and land-use statistics, historical land-use, sound population census) which remain the principal constraint faced in the study area. Meanwhile, the results are valuable for assessing the land-use changes at local level and useful for setting up a Decision Support System (DSS) for the purpose of sustainable land-use management.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/3101}
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